Muse vs Design - What's the difference?

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Muse is a related term of design.

As nouns the difference between muse and design

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

muse

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) muse, from (etyl) .

Noun

(s)

A source of inspiration.

(archaic) A poet; a bard.

(Milton)

Usage notes

The plural musae'' can also be found, though it is much rarer than ''muses .

Etymology 2

First attested in 1340. From (etyl) muser.

Verb

(mus)

To become lost in thought, to ponder.

To say (something) with due consideration or thought.

* (seeCites)

To think on; to meditate on.

* (rfdate) Thomson

Come, then, expressive Silence, muse his praise.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson

, volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Fantasy of navigation , passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.}}

To wonder at.

(Shakespeare)

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Noun

(en noun)

An act of musing; a period of thoughtfulness.

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , I.xii:

still he sate long time astonished / As in great muse , ne word to creature spake.

* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia , Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 416:

He fell into a muse and pulled his upper lip.

Etymology 3

From (etyl) musse. See muset.

Noun

(en noun)

A gap or hole in a hedge, fence, etc. through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.

Find a hare without a muse . (old proverb)

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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.

* '>citation

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 .

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