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As verbs the difference between design and created

is that design is   To assign, appoint (something {{term|to|lang=en}} someone); to designate while created is past tense of create.

As a noun design

is a plan (with more or less detail) for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system.

design

English

(wikipedia design)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A plan (with more or less detail) for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system.
  • A pattern, as an element of a work of art or architecture.
  • The composition of a work of art.
  • Intention or plot.
  • * M. Le Page Du Pratz, History of Louisisana (PG), p. 40:
  • I give it you without any other design than to shew you that I reckon nothing dear to me, when I want to do you a pleasure.
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  • The shape or appearance given to an object, especially one that is intended to make it more attractive.
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  • The art of designing
  • Danish furniture design is world-famous.

    Derived terms

    * architectural design * design by contract * design pattern * hardware design * software design

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete)  To assign, appoint (something to someone); to designate.
  • * 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , I.10:
  • he looks not below the Moon, but hath designed the regiment of sublunary affairs unto inferiour deputations.
  • * Dryden
  • He was designed to the study of the law.
  • To plan and carry out (a picture, work of art, construction etc.).
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.}}
    Primitive people believe that gods designed the Earth and humans.
  • (obsolete) To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.
  • * Shakespeare
  • We shall see / Justice design the victor's chivalry.
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
  • Meet me to-morrow where the master / And this fraternity shall design .

    Anagrams

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    created

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (create)
  • Anagrams

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    create

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic)

    Verb

    (creat)
  • To put into existence.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
  • , author= , volume=100, issue=2, page=171, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Well-connected Brains , passage=Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= The new masters and commanders , passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.
  • To design, invest with a new form, shape, etc.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
  • , volume=189, issue=2, page=48, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= The tao of tech , passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about "creating compelling content",
  • To be creative, imaginative.
  • To cause, bring a (non-object) about by action.
  • * , chapter=7
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace.
  • To confer a title of nobility, not by descent, but by giving a title either initiated or restored for the incumbent.
  • To confer a cardinalate, which can not be inherited, but most often bears a pre?existent title (notably a church in Rome).
  • Synonyms

    * (to put into existence) generate * invent

    Antonyms

    * (to put into existence) annihilate, extinguish * imitate

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) Created, resulting from creation.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Hearts create of duty and zeal.

    Anagrams

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