Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not designed; not intended; unintentional; not proceeding from purpose: as, to do an undesigned injury.
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- adjective Not
designed .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not done or made or performed with purpose or intent
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Examples
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There are a class of similarities which may be called undesigned coincidences, which are so remote as to be incapable of being borrowed from one another, and yet, when they are compared, find a natural explanation in their being the work of the same mind.
Laws 2006
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His diction and language was easy and fluent, void of all affectation and bombast, and has a kind of undesigned negligent elegance which arrests the reader's attention.
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Orientational: offering an overview of the surroundings, that creates or reinforces the user's cognitive map * Regulatory: the do's and don'ts of a place * Vernacular: 'undesigned' signs such as "Please use other door".
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(Nevermind that walking down this road makes a designed/simulated universe as much as or more likely than 'undesigned'.
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(Nevermind that walking down this road makes a designed/simulated universe as much as or more likely than 'undesigned'.
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In any case, if momentum is "designed," then everything is designed, and you can't draw an empirical distinction between designed and undesigned.
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How is it that a completely random series of events, in an undesigned universe, could forge such a malevolent force?
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Now, this idea makes for a great explanation of how it might be that an undesigned universe comes equipped with laws suitable for life.
Clay Farris Naff: Can Physics Save Your Soul? Clay Farris Naff 2011
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Now, this idea makes for a great explanation of how it might be that an undesigned universe comes equipped with laws suitable for life.
Clay Farris Naff: Can Physics Save Your Soul? Clay Farris Naff 2011
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Modern ships are designed to ‘push’ into the water from behind, not be ‘pulled’ from the front – and if anyone studies the old concrete liberty ships of WWII – an undesigned for stress can sometimes bite you hard in the seating spot.
Using Kites to Pull Cargo Ships Across the Seas | Inhabitat 2008
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