'Designing' definitions:
Definition of 'designing'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest; "a selfish and designing nation obsessed with the dark schemes of European intrigue"- W.Churchill; "a scheming wife"; "a scheming gold digger" [syn: designing, scheming]
noun
The act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan); "he contributed to the design of a new instrument" [syn: design, designing]
Definition of 'Designing'
From: GCIDE
- Design \De*sign"\ (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Designed; p. pr. & vb. n. Designing.] [F. d['e]signer to designate, cf. F. dessiner to draw, dessin drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See Sign, and cf. Design, n., Designate.]
- 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint. [1913 Webster]
- We shall see Justice design the victor's chivalry. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Meet me to-morrow where the master And this fraternity shall design. --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
- 3. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To intend or purpose; -- usually with for before the remote object, but sometimes with to. [1913 Webster]
- Ask of politicians the end for which laws were originally designed. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- He was designed to the study of the law. --Dryden.
- Syn: To sketch; plan; purpose; intend; propose; project; mean. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Designing'
From: GCIDE
- Designing \De*sign"ing\, a. Intriguing; artful; scheming; as, a designing man. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Designing'
From: GCIDE
- Designing \De*sign"ing\, n. The act of making designs or sketches; the act of forming designs or plans. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'designing'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abstract art,
- acute,
- arch,
- art,
- art form,
- artful,
- artist,
- arts and crafts,
- arts of design,
- astute,
- Byzantine,
- cagey,
- calculating,
- calligraphy,
- canny,
- cave art,
- ceramics,
- clever,
- collusive,
- connivent,
- conniving,
- conspiring,
- contriving,
- crafty,
- crooked,
- cunning,
- cute,
- deceitful,
- decoration,
- deep,
- deep-laid,
- design,
- devious,
- diplomatic,
- double-dealing,
- engraving,
- etching,
- feline,
- fine arts,
- folk art,
- foxy,
- graphic arts,
- guileful,
- ingenious,
- insidious,
- intriguing,
- inventive,
- knowing,
- Machiavellian,
- Machiavellic,
- pawky,
- photography,
- plastic art,
- plotting,
- politic,
- primitive art,
- ready,
- resourceful,
- scheming,
- sculpture,
- serpentine,
- sharp,
- shifty,
- shrewd,
- slick,
- slippery,
- sly,
- smooth,
- snaky,
- sneaky,
- sophistical,
- stealthy,
- stratagemical,
- strategic,
- subtile,
- subtle,
- supple,
- tactical,
- the arts,
- treacherous,
- trickish,
- tricksy,
- tricky,
- underhanded,
- up to,
- vulpine,
- wary,
- wily
Words containing 'Designing'
- Design,
- Design for,
- Designable,
- Designate,
- Designated,
- Designating,
- Designation,
- Designative,
- Designator,
- Designed,
- Designedly,
- Designer,
- Designful,
- Designfulness,
- Designment,
- by design,
- Arts of design,
- Grolier design,
- School of design,
- clothes designer,
- costume designer,
- design criteria,
- designated driver,
- designated hitter,
- designer drug,
- fashion designer,
- graphic design,
- graphic designer,
- interior design,
- interior designer,
- computer-aided design