Import vs Design - What's the difference?

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Import is a related term of design.

As nouns the difference between import and design

is that import is import (the act of importing) while design is design (creative profession or art).

import

English

Etymology 1

(verb) From (etyl) importen, from (etyl) importer, from (etyl) .

Noun

(wikipedia import)

(countable) Something brought in from an exterior source, especially for sale or trade.

(uncountable) The practice of importing.

(uncountable) Significance, importance.

Synonyms

* (significance) importancy, importance, meaning, significance, weight

Antonyms

* (practice of importing) export * (something brought in from a foreign country) export * insignificance

Verb

(en verb)

To bring (something) in from a foreign country, especially for sale or trade.

To load a file into a software application from another version or system.

How can I import files from older versions of this application?

Quotations

* (English Citations of "import")

Derived terms

* importable * important * importer * importation

Antonyms

* (bring in from a foreign country) export

Etymology 2

From (etyl) importare, and (etyl) importer, from (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)

To be important; to be significant; to be of consequence.

* 1661 , Thomas Salusbury:

See how much it importeth to learn to take Time by the Fore-Top.''

To be of importance to (someone or something).

* 1593 , Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost :

This Letter is mistooke: it importeth none here: It is writ to laquenetta.

* Dryden

If I endure it, what imports it you?

To be incumbent on (someone to do something).

* 1762 , David Hume, The History of England :

It imports us to get all the aid and assistance we can.

To be important or crucial to (that something happen).

* 1819 , Shelley, "The Cenci":

It much imports your house That all should be made clear.

To mean, signify.

* Hooker

Every petition always import a multitude of speakers together.

(archaic) To express, to imply.

References

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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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