Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter D - Page 36
Descriptive (a.) 描述的，描寫的，說明的 Tending to describe; having the quality of representing; containing description; as, a descriptive figure; a descriptive phrase; a descriptive narration; a story descriptive of the age.
Descriptive anatomy, That part of anatomy which treats of the forms and relations of parts, but not of their textures.
Descriptive geometry, That branch of geometry. which treats of the graphic solution of problems involving three dimensions, by means of projections upon auxiliary planes. --Davies & Peck (Math. Dict. ) -- De*scrip"tive*ly, adv. -- De*scrip"tive*ness, n.
Descriptive (a.) Serving to describe or inform or characterized by description; "the descriptive variable"; "a descriptive passage" [ant: undescriptive].
Descriptive (a.) Describing the structure of a language; "descriptive grammar" [ant: normative, prescriptive].
Descriptive (a.) 描述的，描寫的，描繪的 Describing something, especially in a detailed, interesting way.
// A descriptive essay/ passage.
Descriptive (a.) (Specialized) (Language) (Social sciences) 描述性的（學科）（建立在對學科描述，而不是發展學科理論的基礎上） A descriptive area of study is one that is based on saying what its subject is really like, rather than on developing theories about it.
// Descriptive linguistics/ sociology/ statistics.
Descrive (v. t.) To describe. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Descried (imp. & p. p.) of Descry
Descrying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Descry
Descry (v. t.) 【文】 [W] 看見，辨認出；發現，找到 To spy out or discover by the eye, as objects distant or obscure; to espy; to recognize; to discern; to discover.
And the house of Joseph sent to descry Bethel. -- Judg. i. 23.
Edmund, I think, is gone . . . to descry The strength o' the enemy. -- Shak.
And now their way to earth they had descried. -- Milton.
Descry (v. t.) To discover; to disclose; to reveal. [R.]
His purple robe he had thrown aside, lest it should descry him. -- Milton.
Syn: To see; behold; espy; discover; discern.
Descry (n.) Discovery or view, as of an army seen at a distance. [Obs.]
Near, and on speedy foot; the main descry Stands on the hourly thought. -- Shak.
Descry (v.) Catch sight of [syn: {descry}, {spot}, {espy}, {spy}].
Desecate (v. t.) To cut, as with a scythe; to mow. [Obs.]
Desecrated (imp. & p. p.) of Desecrate
Desecrating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Desecrate
Desecrate (v. t.) 把（神物）供俗用；褻瀆 To divest of a sacred character or office; to divert from a sacred purpose; to violate the sanctity of; to profane; to put to an unworthy use; -- the opposite of consecrate.
The [Russian] clergy can not suffer corporal punishment without being previously desecrated. -- W. Tooke.
The founders of monasteries imprecated evil on those who should desecrate their donations. -- Salmon.
Desecrate (v.) Violate the sacred character of a place or language; "desecrate a cemetery"; "violate the sanctity of the church"; "profane the name of God" [syn: {desecrate}, {profane}, {outrage}, {violate}].
Desecrate (v.) Remove the consecration from a person or an object [syn: {desecrate}, {unhallow}, {deconsecrate}] [ant: {bless}, {consecrate}, {hallow}, {sanctify}].
Desecrate (v.) [ T ] 褻瀆，玷污 To damage or show no respect towards something holy or very much respected.
// The mosque/ shrine was desecrated by vandals.
// It's a crime to desecrate the country's flag.
Desecrater (n.) 褻瀆者；汙辱者 One who desecrates; a profaner. -- Harper's Mag.
Desecration (n.) 褻瀆神聖，污辱 The act of desecrating; profanation; condition of anything desecrated.
Desecration (n.) Blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character; "desecration of the Holy Sabbath" [syn: {profanation}, {desecration}, {blasphemy}, {sacrilege}].
Desecrator (n.) 褻瀆者；污辱者 One who desecrates. "Desecrators of the church." -- Morley.
Desegmentation (n.) (Anat.) The loss or obliteration of division into segments; as, a desegmentation of the body.
Compare: Obligation
Obligation (n.) 塗去；刪除；忘卻；【醫】閉塞 An act or course of action to which a person is morally or legally bound; a duty or commitment.
[With infinitive] ‘I have an obligation to look after her.’
‘He has enough cash to meet his present obligations.’
Obligation (n.) The condition of being morally or legally bound to do something.
‘They are under no obligation to stick to the scheme.’
Obligation (n.) A debt of gratitude for a service or favor.
‘She didn't want to be under an obligation to him.’
Obligation (n.) [Law ] A binding agreement committing a person to a payment or other action.
Desegregation (n.) 廢止歧視； 廢除種族隔離 The action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community; the elimination of laws, regulations, or customs which prohibit members of a specific racial or national group from using certain locations, organizations, or facilities.
Note: In the 1960's and 1970's civil rights legislation was passed by the U. S. congress, prohibiting segregation by governmental agencies and in places of public accommodation, which resulteo in widespread besegregotion of schools and places of business. Some segregation remains in privately operated organizations.
Syn: integration, integrating.
Desegregation (n.) The action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community [syn: {integration}, {integrating}, {desegregation}] [ant: {segregation}, {sequestration}].
Desert (n.) That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit.
According to their deserts will I judge them. -- Ezek. vii. 27.
Andronicus, surnamed Pius For many good and great deserts to Rome. -- Shak.
His reputation falls far below his desert. -- A. Hamilton.
Syn: Merit; worth; excellence; due.
Desert (n.) A deserted or forsaken region; a barren tract incapable of supporting population, as the vast sand plains of Asia and Africa are destitute and vegetation.
A dreary desert and a gloomy waste. -- Pope.
Desert (n.) A tract, which may be capable of sustaining a population, but has been left unoccupied and uncultivated; a wilderness; a solitary place.
He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord. -- Is. li. 3.
Note: Also figuratively.
Before her extended Dreary and vast and silent, the desert of life. -- Longfellow.
Desert (a.) Of or pertaining to a desert; forsaken; without life or cultivation; unproductive; waste; barren; wild; desolate; solitary; as, they landed on a desert island.
He . . . went aside privately into a desert place. -- Luke ix. 10.
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. -- Gray.
{Desert flora} (Bot.), The assemblage of plants growing naturally in a desert, or in a dry and apparently unproductive place.
{Desert hare} (Zool.), A small hare ({Lepus sylvaticus}, var. Arizon[ae]) inhabiting the deserts of the Western United States.
{Desert mouse} (Zool.), An American mouse ({Hesperomys eremicus}), living in the Western deserts.
Deserted (imp. & p. p.) of Desert
Deserting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Desert
Desert (v. t.) 從……開小差；擅離（職守等）；拋棄；遺棄；離棄 To leave (especially something which one should stay by and support); to leave in the lurch; to abandon; to forsake; -- implying blame, except sometimes when used of localities; as, to desert a friend, a principle, a cause, one's country. "The deserted fortress." -- Prescott.
Desert (v. t.) (Mil.) To abandon (the service) without leave; to forsake in violation of duty; to abscond from; as, to desert the army; to desert one's colors.
Desert (v. i.) 逃跑；開小差 To abandon a service without leave; to quit military service without permission, before the expiration of one's term; to abscond.
The soldiers . . . deserted in numbers. -- Bancroft.
Syn: To abandon; forsake; leave; relinquish; renounce; quit; depart from; abdicate. See {Abandon}.
Desert (n.) Arid land with little or no vegetation
Desert (v.) Leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children" [syn: {abandon}, {forsake}, {desolate}, {desert}]
Desert (v.) Desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army; "If soldiers deserted Hitler's army, they were shot" [syn: {defect}, {desert}].
Desert (v.) Leave behind; "the students deserted the campus after the end of exam period".
Desert (n.) Heb. midbar, "pasture-ground;" an open tract for pasturage; a common (Joel 2:22). The "backside of the desert" (Ex. 3:1) is the west of the desert, the region behind a man, as the east is the region in front. The same Hebrew word is rendered "wildernes," and is used of the country lying between Egypt and Palestine (Gen. 21:14, 21; Ex. 4:27; 19:2; Josh. 1:4), the wilderness of the wanderings. It was a grazing tract, where the flocks and herds of the Israelites found pasturage during the whole of their journey to the Promised Land.
The same Hebrew word is used also to denote the wilderness of Arabia, which in winter and early spring supplies good pasturage to the flocks of the nomad tribes than roam over it (1 Kings 9:18).
The wilderness of Judah is the mountainous region along the western shore of the Dead Sea, where David fed his father's flocks (1 Sam. 17:28; 26:2). Thus in both of these instances the word denotes a country without settled inhabitants and without streams of water, but having good pasturage for cattle; a country of wandering tribes, as distinguished from that of a settled people (Isa. 35:1; 50:2; Jer. 4:11). Such, also, is the meaning of the word "wilderness" in Matt. 3:3; 15:33; Luke 15:4.
Desert (n.) The translation of the Hebrew _Aribah'_, "an arid tract" (Isa. 35:1, 6; 40:3; 41:19; 51:3, etc.). The name Arabah is specially applied to the deep valley of the Jordan (the Ghor of the Arabs), which extends from the lake of Tiberias to the Elanitic gulf. While _midbar_ denotes properly a pastoral region, _arabah_ denotes a wilderness. It is also translated "plains;" as "the plains of Jericho" (Josh. 5:10; 2 Kings 25:5), "the plains of Moab" (Num. 22:1; Deut. 34:1, 8), "the plains of the wilderness" (2 Sam. 17:16).
Desert (n.) In the Revised Version of Num. 21:20 the Hebrew word _jeshimon_ is properly rendered "desert," meaning the waste tracts on both shores of the Dead Sea. This word is also rendered "desert" in Ps. 78:40; 106:14; Isa. 43:19, 20. It denotes a greater extent of uncultivated country than the other words so rendered. It is especially applied to the desert of the peninsula of Arabia (Num. 21:20; 23:28), the most terrible of all the deserts with which the Israelites were acquainted. It is called "the desert" in Ex. 23:31; Deut. 11:24. (See {Jeshimon}.)
Desert (n.) A dry place; hence a desolation (Ps. 9:6), desolate (Lev. 26:34); the rendering of the Hebrew word _horbah'_. It is rendered "desert" only in Ps. 102:6, Isa. 48:21, and Ezek. 13:4, where it means the wilderness of Sinai.
Desert (n.) This word is the symbol of the Jewish church when they had forsaken God (Isa. 40:3). Nations destitute of the knowledge of God are called a "wilderness" (32:15, _midbar_). It is a symbol of temptation, solitude, and persecution (Isa. 27:10, _midbar_; 33:9, _arabah_).
Deserter (n.) One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.
Deserter (n.) A disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc. [syn: deserter, apostate, renegade, turncoat, recreant, ratter].
Deserter (n.) A person who abandons their duty (as on a military post) [syn: deserter, defector].
Deserter, () One who abandons his post; as, a soldier who abandons the public service without leave; or a sailor who abandons a ship when he has engaged to serve.
Desertful (a.) Meritorious. [R.] -- Beau. & Fl.
Desertion (n.) [U] [C] 離棄；拋棄；擅離職守；開小差；逃亡；【律】遺棄 The act of deserting or forsaking; abandonment of a service, a cause, a party, a friend, or any post of duty; the quitting of one's duties willfully and without right; esp., an absconding from military or naval service.
Such a resignation would have seemed to his superior a desertion or a reproach. -- Bancroft.
Desertion (n.) The state of being forsaken; desolation; as, the king in his desertion.
Desertion (n.) Abandonment by God; spiritual despondency.
The spiritual agonies of a soul under desertion. -- South.
Desertion (n.) Withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility; "his abandonment of his wife and children left them penniless" [syn: desertion, abandonment, defection].
Desertion (n.) The act of giving something up [syn: abandonment, forsaking, desertion].
Desertion, () crim. law. An offence which consists in the abandonment of the public service, in the army or navy, without leave.
Desertion, () The Act of March 16, 1802, s. 19, enacts, that if any non-commissioned officer, musician, or private, shall desert the service of the United States, he shall, in addition to the penalties mentioned in the rules and articles of war, be liable to serve for and during such period as shall, with the time he may have served previous to his desertion, amount to the full term of his enlistment; and such soldier shall and may be tried by a court-martial, and punished, although the term of his enlistment may have elased previous to his being apprehended or tried.
Desertion, () By the articles of war, it is enacted, that "any non-commissioned officer or soldier who shall, without leave from his commanding officer, absent himself from his troop, company, or detachment, shall, upon being convicted thereof, be punished, according to the nature of his offence, at the discretion of a court-martial." Art. 21.
Desertion, () By the articles for the government of the navy, art. 16, it is enacted, that "if any person in the navy shall desert to an enemy, or rebel, he shall suffer death;" and by art. 17, "if any person in the navy shall desert, or shall entice others to desert, he shall suffer death, or such other punishment as a court-martial shall adjudge."
Desertion, () torts. The act by which a man abandons his wife and children, or either of them.
Desertion, () On proof of desertion, the courts possess the power to grant the 'Wife, or such children as have been deserted, alimony (q.v.).
DESERTION, MALICIOUS. The act of a husband or wife, in leaving a consort, without just cause, for the purpose of causing a perpetual separation. Vide Abandonment, malicious.
Desertless (a.) Without desert. [R.]
Desertlessly (adv.) Undeservedly. [R.] -- Beau. & Fl.
Desertness (n.) A deserted condition. [R.] "The desertness of the country." -- Udall. Desertrix
Desertrix (n.) Alt. of Desertrice
Desertrice (n.) A feminine deserter. -- Milton.
Deserved (imp. & p. p.) of Deserve
Deserving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Deserve
Deserve (v. t.) 應受，該得 [W] [+to-v] To earn by service; to be worthy of (something due, either good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to; as, the laborer deserves his wages; a work of value deserves praise.
God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth. -- Job xi. 6.
John Gay deserved to be a favorite. -- Thackeray.
Encouragement is not held out to things that deserve reprehension. -- Burke.
Deserve (v. t.) To serve; to treat; to benefit. [Obs.]
A man that hath So well deserved me. -- Massinger.
Deserve (v. i.) 應受賞（罰） To be worthy of recompense; -- usually with ill or with well.
One man may merit or deserve of another. -- South.
Deserve (v.) Be worthy or deserving; "You deserve a promotion after all the hard work you have done" [syn: deserve, merit].
Deservedly (adv.) 應得地；當然地 According to desert (whether good or evil); justly.
Deservedly (adv.) As deserved; "he chalked up two goals which deservedly gave Bolton their second victory of the season" [ant: {undeservedly}].
Deservedness (n.) Meritoriousness.
Deserver (n.) One who deserves.
Deserving (n.) Desert; merit.
A person of great deservings from the republic. -- Swift.
Deserving (a.) Meritorious; worthy; as, a deserving person or act. -- {De*serv"ing*ly}, adv.
Deserving (a.) Worthy of being treated in a particular way; "an idea worth considering"; "the deserving poor" (often used ironically) [syn: {deserving}, {worth(p)}].
Deshabille (n.) An undress; a careless toilet.
Deshabille (n.) The state of being carelessly or partially dressed [syn: dishabille, deshabille].
Desiccant (a.) 使乾燥的；去濕的 Drying; desiccative.
Desiccant (n.) (Med.) 乾燥劑 A medicine or application for drying up a sore. -- Wiseman.
Desiccant (n.) A substance that promotes drying (e.g., calcium oxide absorbs water and is used to remove moisture) [syn: desiccant, drying agent, drier, siccative].
Desiccated (imp. & p. p.) of Desiccate
Desiccating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Desiccate
Desiccate (v. t.) 使乾燥；使脫水 To dry up; to deprive or exhaust of moisture; to preserve by drying; as, to desiccate fish or fruit.
Bodies desiccated by heat or age. -- Bacon.
Desiccate (v. i.) 變乾 To become dry.
Desiccate (a.) Lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless; "a technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata"; "a desiccate romance"; "a prissy and emotionless creature...settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery" - C. J. Rolo [syn: arid, desiccate, desiccated].
Desiccate (v.) Preserve by removing all water and liquids from; "carry dehydrated food on your camping trip" [syn: dehydrate, desiccate].
Desiccate (v.) Remove water from; "All this exercise and sweating has dehydrated me" [syn: dehydrate, desiccate].
Desiccate (v.) Lose water or moisture; "In the desert, you get dehydrated very quickly" [syn: exsiccate, dehydrate, dry up, desiccate] [ant: hydrate].
Desiccation (n.) 乾燥 The act of desiccating, or the state of being desiccated.
Desiccation (n.) Dryness resulting from the removal of water [syn: dehydration, desiccation].
Desiccation (n.) The process of extracting moisture [syn: dehydration, desiccation, drying up, evaporation].
Desiccative (a.) 使……乾燥的；去濕的 Drying; tending to dry. -- Ferrand.
Desiccative (n.) (Med.) 乾燥劑 An application for drying up secretions.
Desiccator (n.) 使乾燥之人或物 One who, or that which, desiccates.
Desiccator (n.) (Chem.) A short glass jar fitted with an air-tight cover, and containing some desiccating agent, as sulphuric acid, phosphorus pentoxide, or calcium chloride, above which is supported on a perforated platform the material to be dried, or preserved from moisture.
Desiccator (n.) A machine or apparatus for drying fruit, milk, etc., usually by the aid of heat; an evaporator.
Desiccatory (a.) 使……乾燥的；去濕的 Desiccative.
Desiderable (a.) Desirable. [R.] "Good and desiderable things." -- Holland.
Desideratum (n.; pl. Desiderata.) Anything desired; that of which the lack is felt; a want generally felt and acknowledge. Desidiose
Desiderata (n. pl.) See Desideratum.
Desiderated (imp. & p. p.) of Desiderate
Desiderating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Desiderate
Desiderate (v. t.) To desire; to feel the want of; to lack; to miss; to want.
Pray have the goodness to point out one word missing that ought to have been there -- please to insert a desiderated stanza. You can not. -- Prof. Wilson.
Men were beginning . . . to desiderate for them an actual abode of fire. -- A. W. Ward.
Desideration (n.) Act of desiderating; also, the thing desired. [R.] -- Jeffrey.
Desiderative (a.) 渴望的；【文】（指動詞）表示願望的 Denoting desire; as, desiderative verbs.
Desiderative (n.) 【文】願望動詞 An object of desire.
Desiderative (n.) (Gram.) A verb formed from another verb by a change of termination, and expressing the desire of doing that which is indicated by the primitive verb.
Desiderata (n. pl. ) of Desideratum
Desideratum (n.) 需要的東西 Anything desired; that of which the lack is felt; a want generally felt and acknowledge. Desidiose
Desideratum (n.) Something desired as a necessity; "the desiderata for a vacation are time and money".
Desidiose (a.) Alt. of Desidious
Desidious (a.) Idle; lazy. [Obs.]
Desidiousness (n.) 鄙視 The state or quality of being desidiose, or indolent. [Obs.] -- N. Bacon.
Desight (n.) 難看的景物 An unsightly object. [Obs.]
Desightment (n.) The act of making unsightly; disfigurement. [R.]
To substitute jury masts at whatever desightment or damage in risk. -- London Times.
Designed (imp. & p. p.) of Design
Designing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Design
Design (n.) The approach that engineering (and some other) disciplines use to specify how to create or do something. A successful design must satisfies a (perhaps informal) functional specification (do what it was designed to do); conforms to the limitations of the target medium (it is possible to implement); meets implicit or explicit requirements on performance and resource usage (it is efficient enough).
A design may also have to satisfy restrictions on the design process itself, such as its length or cost, or the tools available for doing the design.
In the software life-cycle, design follows {requirement analysis} and is followed by implementation.
["Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications", 2nd ed., Grady Booch].
(1996-12-08)
Design (v. t.) 設計；構思：繪製；打算將……用作 [H] [O2] To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw. -- Dryden.
Design (v. t.) 圖樣，圖紙 [C] [U]；設計術；製圖術 [U] To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.
We shall see Justice design the victor's chivalry. -- Shak.
Meet me to-morrow where the master And this fraternity shall design. -- Beau. & Fl.
Design (v. t.) 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.
Design (v. t.) To intend or purpose; -- usually with for before the remote object, but sometimes with to.
Ask of politicians the end for which laws were originally designed. -- Burke.
He was designed to the study of the law. -- Dryden.
Syn: To sketch; plan; purpose; intend; propose; project; mean.
Design (v. i.) 設計，畫圖樣；當設計師；計畫，謀劃 To form a design or designs; to plan.
{Design for}, To intend to go to. [Obs.] "From this city she designed for Collin [Cologne]." -- Evelyn.
Design (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.
Design (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.
The vast design and purpos? of the King. -- Tennyson.
The leaders of that assembly who withstood the designs of a besotted woman. -- Hallam.
A . . . settled design upon another man's life. -- Locke.
How little he could guess the secret designs of the court! -- Macaulay.
Design (n.) Specifically, intention or purpose as revealed or inferred from the adaptation of means to an end; as, the argument from design.
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.
Design (n.) (Mus.) The invention and conduct of the subject; the disposition of every part, and the general order of the whole.
{Arts of design}, Those into which the designing of artistic forms and figures enters as a principal part, as architecture, painting, engraving, sculpture.
{School of design}, One in which are taught the invention and delineation of artistic or decorative figures, patterns, and the like.
Syn: Intention; purpose; scheme; project; plan; idea.
Usage: {Design}, {Intention}, {Purpose}. Design has reference to something definitely aimed at. Intention points to the feelings or desires with which a thing is sought. Purpose has reference to a settled choice or determination for its attainment. "I had no design to injure you," means it was no part of my aim or object. "I had no intention to injure you," means, I had no wish or desire of that kind. "My purpose was directly the reverse," makes the case still stronger.
Is he a prudent man . . . that lays designs only for a day, without any prospect to the remaining part of his life? -- Tillotson.
I wish others the same intention, and greater successes. -- Sir W. Temple.
It is the purpose that makes strong the vow. -- Shak.
Design (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" [syn: {design}, {designing}].
Design (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" [syn: {design}, {plan}].
Design (n.) Something intended as a guide for making something else; "a blueprint for a house"; "a pattern for a skirt" [syn: {blueprint}, {design}, {pattern}].
Design (n.) A decorative or artistic work; "the coach had a design on the doors" [syn: {design}, {pattern}, {figure}].
Design (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" [syn: {purpose}, {intent}, {intention}, {aim}, {design}].
Design (n.) A preliminary sketch indicating the plan for something; "the design of a building".
Design (n.) The creation of something in the mind [syn: {invention}, {innovation}, {excogitation}, {conception}, {design}].
Design (v.) Make or work out a plan for; devise; "They contrived to murder their boss"; "design a new sales strategy"; "plan an attack" [syn: {plan}, {project}, {contrive}, {design}].
Design (v.) Plan something for a specific role or purpose or effect; "This room is not designed for work".
Design (v.) Create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner; "Chanel designed the famous suit".
Design (v.) Make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form; "design a better mousetrap"; "plan the new wing of the museum" [syn: {design}, {plan}].
Design (v.) Create designs; "Dupont designs for the house of Chanel".
Design (v.) Conceive or fashion in the mind; invent; "She designed a good excuse for not attending classes that day".
Design (v.) Intend or have as a purpose; "She designed to go far in the world of business".
Design, () The approach that engineering (and some other) disciplines use to specify how to create or do something. successful design must satisfies a (perhaps informal) functional specification (do what it was designed to do); conforms to the limitations of the target medium (it is possible to implement); meets implicit or explicit requirements on performance and resource usage (it is efficient enough).
A design may also have to satisfy restrictions on the design process itself, such as its length or cost, or the tools available for doing the design.
In the software life-cycle, design follows requirements analysis and is followed by implementation.
["Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications", 2nd ed., Grady Booch].
(1996-12-08)
Designable (a.) 能設計 [計劃] 的；企圖的；能指定的 Capable of being designated or distinctly marked out; distinguishable. -- Boyle.
Designate (a.) 指定的，選定的 [A] Designated; appointed; chosen. [R.] -- Sir G. Buck.
Designated (imp. & p. p.) of Designate
Designating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Designate
Designate (v. t.) 標出；表明；指定；把……定名為，稱呼 [（+as）] [O9] To mark out and make known; to point out; to name; to indicate; to show; to distinguish by marks or description; to specify; as, to designate the boundaries of a country; to designate the rioters who are to be arrested.
Designate (v. t.) To call by a distinctive title; to name.
Designate (v. t.) To indicate or set apart for a purpose or duty; -- with to or for; to designate an officer for or to the command of a post or station.
Syn: To name; denominate; style; entitle; characterize; describe.
Designate (a.) Appointed but not yet installed in office.
Designate (v.) Assign a name or title to [syn: {designate}, {denominate}].
Designate (v.) Give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) [syn: {delegate}, {designate}, {depute}, {assign}].
Designate (v.) Indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively; "I showed the customer the glove section"; "He pointed to the empty parking space"; "he indicated his opponents" [syn: {indicate}, {point}, {designate}, {show}].
Designate (v.) Decree or designate beforehand; "She was destined to become a great pianist" [syn: {destine}, {fate}, {doom}, {designate}].
Designate (v.) Design or destine; "She was intended to become the director" [syn: {intend}, {destine}, {designate}, {specify}].
Designation (n.) 指定；任命；命名；稱號 The act of designating; a pointing out or showing; indication.
Designation (n.) Selection and appointment for a purpose; allotment; direction.
Designation (n.) That which designates; a distinguishing mark or name; distinctive title; appellation.
The usual designation of the days of the week. -- Whewell.
Designation (n.) Use or application; import; intention; signification, as of a word or phrase.
Finite and infinite seem . . . to be attributed primarily, in their first designation, only to those things which have parts. -- Locke.
Designation (n.) Identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others [syn: {appellation}, {denomination}, {designation}, {appellative}].
Designation (n.) The act of putting a person into a non-elective position; "the appointment had to be approved by the whole committee" [syn: {appointment}, {assignment}, {designation}, {naming}].
Designation (n.) The act of designating or identifying something [syn {designation}, {identification}].
Designation (n.) Wills. The expression used by a testator, instead of the name of the person or the thing he is desirous to name; for example, a legacy to. the eldest son of such a person, would be a designation of the legatee. Vide 1 Rop. Leg. ch. 2.
Designation (n.) A bequest of the farm which the testator bought of such a person; or of the picture he owns, painted by such an artist, would be a designation of the thing devised or bequeathed.
Designative (a.) 指定的；指名的 Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out.
Designative (a.) Serving to designate.
Designator (n.) (Rom. Antiq.) 指示者；指定者 An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies.
Designator (n.) One who designates.
Designatory (a.) 指定的 Serving to designate; designative; indicating. [R.]