Clues for the word "DESIGN"

We've had 59 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 117 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Mindfood Daily crossword on May 15, 2026.

Definition of design

n. - To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.
n. - To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.
n. - 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.
n. - To intend or purpose; -- usually with for before the remote object, but sometimes with to.
v. i. - To form a design or designs; to plan.
n. - A preliminary sketch; an outline or pattern of the main features of something to be executed, as of a picture, a building, or a decoration; a delineation; a plan.
n. - A plan or scheme formed in the mind of something to be done; preliminary conception; idea intended to be expressed in a visible form or carried into action; intention; purpose; -- often used in a bad sense for evil intention or purpose; scheme; plot.
n. - Specifically, intention or purpose as revealed or inferred from the adaptation of means to an end; as, the argument from design.
n. - The realization of an inventive or decorative plan; esp., a work of decorative art considered as a new creation; conception or plan shown in completed work; as, this carved panel is a fine design, or of a fine design.
n. - The invention and conduct of the subject; the disposition of every part, and the general order of the whole.