What does design mean?

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[n] 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)[v] make or work out a plan for; devise(They contrived to murder their boss design a new sales strategy plan an attack)[n] an arrangement scheme(the

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design - The Free Dictionary

[n] 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)

[v] make or work out a plan for; devise
(They contrived to murder their boss design a new sales strategy plan an attack)

[n] an arrangement scheme
(the awkward design of the keyboard made operation difficult it was an excellent design for living a plan for seating guests)

[v] plan something for a specific role or purpose or effect
(This room is not designed for work)

[n] something intended as a guide for making something else
(a blueprint for a house a pattern for a skirt)

[v] create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner
(Chanel designed the famous suit)

[n] a decorative or artistic work
(the coach had a design on the doors)

[v] make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form
(design a better mousetrap plan the new wing of the museum)

[n] an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions
(his intent was to provide a new translation good intentions are not enough it was created with the conscious aim of answering immediate needs he made no secret of his designs)

[v] create designs
(Dupont designs for the house of Chanel)

[n] a preliminary sketch indicating the plan for something
(the design of a building)

[v] conceive or fashion in the mind; invent
(She designed a good excuse for not attending classes that day)

[n] the creation of something in the mind

[v] intend or have as a purpose
(She designed to go far in the world of business)

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A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by consonantal root for Semitic languages or radical and stroke for ideographic languages), which may include information on definitions, usage, etymologies, pronunciations, translation, etc. It is a lexicographical reference that shows inter-relationships among the data.

A broad distinction is made between general and specialized dictionaries. Specialized dictionaries include words in specialist fields, rather than a complete range of words in the language. Lexical items that describe concepts in specific fields are usually called terms instead of words, although there is no consensus whether lexicology and terminology are two different fields of study. In theory, general dictionaries are supposed[citation needed] to be semasiological, mapping word to definition, while specialized dictionaries are supposed to be onomasiological, first identifying concepts and then establishing the terms used to designate them. In practice, the two approaches are used for both types. There are other types of dictionaries that do not fit neatly into the above distinction, for instance bilingual (translation) dictionaries, dictionaries of synonyms (thesauri), and rhyming dictionaries. The word dictionary (unqualified) is usually understood to refer to a general purpose monolingual dictionary.

There is also a contrast between prescriptive or descriptive dictionaries; the former reflect what is seen as correct use of the language while the latter reflect recorded actual use. Stylistic indications (e.g. "informal" or "vulgar") in many modern dictionaries are also considered by some to be less than objectively descriptive.

The first recorded dictionaries date back to Sumerian times around 2300 BCE, in the form of bilingual dictionaries, and the oldest surviving monolingual dictionaries are Chinese dictionaries c. 3rd century BCE. The first purely English alphabetical dictionary was A Table Alphabeticall, written in 1604, and monolingual dictionaries in other languages also began appearing in Europe at around this time. The systematic study of dictionaries as objects of scientific interest arose as a 20th-century enterprise, called lexicography, and largely initiated by Ladislav Zgusta. The birth of the new discipline was not without controversy, with the practical dictionary-makers being sometimes accused by others of having an "astonishing" lack of method and critical-self reflection.