Designed Design Dɪˈzaɪn Dress/An Office Primarily Verb Bre

• to design a car/a dress/an office
• a badly designed kitchen
• he designed and built his own house.
• they asked me to design a poster for the campaign.

design

1. to decide how something will look, work, etc., especially by drawing plans or making models
• to design a car/a dress/an office
• a badly designed kitchen
• He designed and built his own house.
• They asked me to design a poster for the campaign.
• Could you design us a poster?
2. to think of and plan a system, a way of doing something, etc.
• We need to design a new syllabus for the third year.
3. to make, plan or intend something for a particular purpose or use
• The method is specifically designed for use in small groups.
• This course is primarily designed as an introduction to the subject.
• The programme is designed to help people who have been out of work for a long time.

Extra Examples

• Many new performance halls are designed primarily for music.
• The instruments are designed for use in very cold conditions.
• The trail was originally designed to give our staff a quiet place to walk.
• The website was poorly designed.
• These shelves have been designed very cleverly to fit into corners.
• They run specially designed courses for managers.
• a service designed exclusively for women
• the first yogurt designed especially for babies and toddlers
• It is easy enough to design systems that work well when everything is going well.
• The method is specifically designed for use with small groups.
• These classes are primarily designed as an introduction to the subject.
• This is a network product designed to give access to large document libraries.
• We need to design a new programme for the third year.
• to design a dress/an office

Verb Forms

• present simple I / you / we / they design
• he / she / it designs
• past simple designed
• past participle designed
• -ing form designing

Word Origin

• late Middle English (as a verb in the sense ‘to designate’): from Latin designare ‘to designate’, reinforced by French désigner. The noun is via French from Italian.