designed

«designed» in Mova's school dictionary: planned and drawn before being made: she designed a poster — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

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

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

• 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.