Yarn vs Design - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) A twisted strand of fiber used for knitting or weaving.
(nautical) Bundles of fibers twisted together, and which in turn are twisted in bundles to form strands, which in their turn are twisted or plaited to form rope.
(countable) A story, a tale, especially one that is incredible.
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, title= 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:
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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
(obsolete) To assign, appoint (something to someone); to designate.
* 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , I.10:
* Dryden
To plan and carry out (a picture, work of art, construction etc.).
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, chapter=1 (obsolete) To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.
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* Beaumont and Fletcher
Yarn is a related term of design.
As nouns the difference between yarn and design
is that yarn is (uncountable) a twisted strand of fiber used for knitting or weaving while design is design (creative profession or art).As a verb yarn
is to tell a story.yarn
English
Noun
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn , but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.}}
Synonyms
* (story or tale) story, taleDerived terms
* yarn-beam * yarn-spinner * yarnwindleSee also
* hank * twineDerived terms
* yarnerAnagrams
* *design
English
(wikipedia design)Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- Danish furniture design is world-famous.
Derived terms
* architectural design * design by contract * design pattern * hardware design * software designVerb
(en verb)- he looks not below the Moon, but hath designed the regiment of sublunary affairs unto inferiour deputations.
- He was designed to the study of the law.
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.
- We shall see / Justice design the victor's chivalry.
- Meet me to-morrow where the master / And this fraternity shall design .