design
part of speech
noun (a design, designs; design — the activity); verb (design, designs, designed, designing)
meaning for a pupil
1) A design is a drawing or plan that shows how something will look or be made. tree →
2) A design is a pattern of lines, shapes and colours that decorates something. tree →
3) (verb) To design means to plan and draw how something will be made or work. tree →
4) By design means on purpose. tree →
5) Designs can also mean secret plans, often bad ones, made to get what you want. tree →
sense in the lessons
In design and technology lessons pupils design and make products; in maths they design patterns and shapes. In everyday life design is how things look and work. Phrases: «design and technology», «by design», «designed for», «a flower design».
examples
- We designed a bridge out of paper. tree →
- I like the design on your T-shirt. tree →
- The car was designed to be safe. tree →
- Draw a design for your poster first. tree →
- Is this mistake by design or by accident? tree →
- The tiles have a pattern design of triangles. tree →
- The wicked brothers stamped and foamed with rage when they saw the failure of their wicked designs. tree →
note
Silent g: de-ZINE. Countable for plans and patterns, uncountable for the subject. A person who designs is a designer.
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.
- A bot has no body, so it is neither a boy nor a girl; a name and voice are design choices.
- 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.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «design» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.