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Designing vs Engineering - What's the difference?

designing | engineering |

As verbs the difference between designing and engineering

is that designing is present participle of lang=en while engineering is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between designing and engineering

is that designing is a process of design while engineering is the application of mathematics and the physical sciences to the needs of humanity and the development of technology.

As an adjective designing

is artful; scheming.

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?

    engineering

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) The application of mathematics and the physical sciences to the needs of humanity and the development of technology.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-14, volume=411, issue=8891, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= It's a gas , passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.}}
  • The area aboard a ship where the engine is located.
  • Derived terms

    (Derived terms) * aerospace engineering * chemical engineering * civil engineering * control engineering * electrical engineering * engineering society * genetic engineering * geotechnical engineering * information engineering * manufacturing engineering * mechanical engineering * mechatronics engineering * memetic engineering * molecular engineering * protein engineering * reverse engineering * social engineering * software engineering * soil mechanics and engineering * sound engineering * systems engineering * tombstone engineering

    See also

    * science * applied mathematics