design : Idioms & Phrases


Arts of design

  • those into which the designing of artistic forms and figures enters as a principal part, as architecture, painting, engraving, sculpture.
Webster 1913

by design

  • adverb with intention; in an intentional manner
    designedly; advisedly; on purpose; by choice; intentionally; deliberately; purposely.
    • he used that word intentionally
    • I did this by choice
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computer-aided design

  • noun software used in art and architecture and engineering and manufacturing to assist in precision drawing
    CAD.
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design criteria

  • noun criteria that designers should meet in designing some system or device
    • the job specifications summarized the design criteria
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Design for

  • to intend to go to. Obs. "From this city she designed for Collin [Cologne]."
Webster 1913

graphic design

  • noun visual communication by a skillful combination of text and pictures in advertisements, magazines, books, etc.
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interior design

  • noun the trade of planning the layout and furnishings of an architectural interior
    interior decoration.
  • noun the branch of architecture dealing with the selection and organization of furnishings for an architectural interior
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School of design

  • one in which are taught the invention and delineation of artistic or decorative figures, patterns, and the like.
Webster 1913