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Design vs Engineered - What's the difference?

design | engineered |

As verbs the difference between design and engineered

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

As a noun design

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

As an adjective engineered is

produced by engineering; designed and manufactured according to an engineering methodology.

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

    Related terms

    * designer

    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 .

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    engineered

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Produced by engineering; designed and manufactured according to an engineering methodology.
  • * 1996 , Christopher G. Powell, The British Building Industry Since 1800: An Economic History , page 205,
    • One sense in which buildings were more engineered' was that old bulk masonry forms were often replaced by calculated frame construction and light wall cladding. Buildings also were more ' engineered in the sense that thermal, ventilating and lighting provision were the subject of calculation and mechanical plant rather than hit-or-miss guesswork.
  • * 2004 , James Warner, Practical Handbook of Grouting: Soil, Rock, and Structures , page 531,
    • The situation with grouting has begun to change in recent times, however, and several groups around the world have begun to take a more engineered' approach. "More ' engineered " means more quantified, less subjective, less dependent on experience (or, more often, opinion, if one is honest) and something that can be explained to other engineers without the need for them to have 20 years' prior grouting experience.

    Verb

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  • (engineer)