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Designed vs Designing - What's the difference?

designed | designing |

As verbs the difference between designed and designing

is that designed is (design) while designing is .

As adjectives the difference between designed and designing

is that designed is created according to a design while designing is artful; scheming.

As a noun designing is

a process of design.

designed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (design)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • created according to a design

    • Derived terms

    * designedly

    designing

    English

    (design)

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • artful; scheming
    • a designing man

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A process of design.
  • * 1829 , Richard Carlile, The Lion
    • Are these, the reality of things, a part of the great designings or are they not? If so, it would have been better, that there had been no such designings; if not, how is the theory of omnipotent design borne out?