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Design is a related term of exemplar.


As nouns the difference between design and exemplar

is that design is design (creative profession or art) while exemplar is exemplar.

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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    exemplar

    English

    (wikipedia exemplar)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) exemplaire, from exemplarium, from (etyl) exemplum.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something fit to be imitated; see ideal and model.
  • A role model.
  • Something typical or representative of a class; see example.
  • A pattern after which others should be made; see archetype.
  • A well known usage of a scientific theory.
  • A handwritten manuscript used by a scribe to make a handwritten copy; the original copy of what gets multiply reproduced in a copy machine.
  • A copy of a book or writing.
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    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) exemplaire, and its source, (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Exemplary.
  • *, II.8:
  • *:in our age we have no patterne of motherly affection more exemplare , than yours.
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