(n.) To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch
for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.
(n.) To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to
show; to point out; to appoint.
(n.) To create or produce, as a work of art; to form a plan or
scheme of; to form in idea; to invent; to project; to lay out in the
mind; as, a man designs an essay, a poem, a statue, or a cathedral.
(n.) To intend or purpose; -- usually with for before the remote
object, but sometimes with to.
(v. i.) To form a design or designs; to plan.
(n.) A preliminary sketch; an outline or pattern of the main
features of something to be executed, as of a picture, a building, or a
decoration; a delineation; a plan.
(n.) A plan or scheme formed in the mind of something to be
done; preliminary conception; idea intended to be expressed in a
visible form or carried into action; intention; purpose; -- often used
in a bad sense for evil intention or purpose; scheme; plot.
(n.) Specifically, intention or purpose as revealed or inferred
from the adaptation of means to an end; as, the argument from design.
(n.) The realization of an inventive or decorative plan; esp., a
work of decorative art considered as a new creation; conception or plan
shown in completed work; as, this carved panel is a fine design, or of
a fine design.
(n.) The invention and conduct of the subject; the disposition
of every part, and the general order of the whole.
