designed
part of speech
verb form (past and past participle of design: design, designs, designed, designing); adjective (well-designed, designed for)
meaning for a pupil
1) Designed means planned and drawn before being made: she designed a poster. tree →
2) Designed for (or to) means made for a particular purpose or person: this bike is designed for small children. tree →
3) Designed can mean planned on purpose, intended. tree →
sense in the lessons
Interpretation: Sefer Yetzirah says Abraham studied these things, then designed and engraved them. Tradition treats this as Abraham understanding how God made the world. In the primary lessons: In design and technology lessons, pupils design and make things: they draw plans, choose materials, test and improve (design, make, evaluate). In science, «designed to» explains purpose: a helmet is designed to protect your head; a bird's beak is said to be «designed» for its food, though scientists mean shaped by adaptation. In maths, pupils design shapes, nets and patterns. Phrases: designed by, designed for, designed to, well-designed, badly designed.
examples
- Ginsburg asserts that the system of vowel polluting was invented by a Rabbi Mocha in Palestine about a.d. 570, who designed it to assist his pupils. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
- After that our father Abraham had seen, and pondered over, investigated, and understood these things, he designed, engraved, and composed them, and received them into his power (hands). (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887) tree →
- + Make non-commercial use of the files We designed Google Book Search for use by individuals, and we request that you use these files for personal, non-commercial purposes. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
- I designed a poster for the school fair. tree →
- This chair is designed for young children. tree →
- The helmet is designed to protect your head. tree →
- The bridge was designed by a famous engineer. tree →
- We designed and built a boat that could float. tree →
- A well-designed game is easy to learn. tree →
- The car seat is designed to keep babies safe. tree →
- Architecture next engaged his attention, and in 1657 he designed a house at Viry for his brother and supervised its construction. tree →
note
Regular verb: designed. The «g» is silent: «di-ZINED». Noun: design, designer. «Designed to» + verb tells purpose.
In the corpora
- Supermarkets are designed to make people buy more than they planned, with offers, smells and treats by the tills.
- A scratch card is a quick lottery ticket; the "almost won" feeling is designed to make people buy another.
- People designed AI, collected its text, built its computers and trained it, so people are responsible for it.
- In The Lion King musical the puppets are designed so you see both the actor and the animal.
- Almost everything people make was designed by someone: chairs, signs, logos, books, phones, bags and clothes.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «designed» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.