2. Verb. (third-person singular of design) ¹
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Definition of Designs
1. design [v] - See also: design
Lexicographical Neighbors of Designs
Literary usage of Designs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"I. By artistic arrangement, however, these designs are now made less formal than
in the ... These designs lend themselves well to the working out of various ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"Yet the Assyrian designs also reveal a recumbent harp ; and here, too, ...
The manifold designs of harps of all sorts attest that this instrument was in ..."
3. Proceedings by American Society of Civil Engineers (1903)
"Many of the matters which have already impressed him in connection with these
pumps are discussed in this paper and are embodied in the designs submitted, ..."
4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1899)
"In 1648 he rebuilt, possibly from designs by Jones, a portion of Wilton House,
Wiltshire. With Sir John Denham he also carried out (gratuitously) certain ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"He was the most celebrated Roman artist of his time and his designs, while adhering
more to the Byzantine than those of Giotto did, ..."
6. The Monthly Review (1841)
"But to come to Mr. Tennent's " Treatise on the Copyright of designs in Printed
Fabrics ; with Considerations on the necessity of its Extension," together ..."
7. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"1807] Napoleon's designs revealed to the British Government. the First Consul
and the Tsar Paul drew Prussia and Denmark into their schemes for the humbling ..."
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