Usually means: Creating solutions with aesthetic value.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. design: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. design: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. design: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. design: Collins English Dictionary
  5. design: Vocabulary.com
  6. Design, design: Wordnik
  7. design: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. design: Wiktionary
  9. design: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. design: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. design: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. design: Dictionary.com
  13. design: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. design: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Design (UK band), Design (disambiguation), Design, The Design, .design: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Design: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. design: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. design: Rhymezone
  19. design: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. design: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. design: Free Dictionary
  22. design: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. design: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. design: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. design: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. design: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. design: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. -design, design: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. International Publications (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. design: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DESIGN: Acronym Finder
  2. design: Idioms

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Design: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. -design, design: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  4. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. design: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. design: Coin Collecting
  3. Reliance Electric motor terms (No longer online)
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A specification of an object or process, referring to requirements to be satisfied and thus conditions to be met for them to solve a problem.
noun:  A plan (with more or less detail) for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system.
noun:  A pattern, as an element of a work of art or architecture.
noun:  The composition of a work of art.
noun:  Intention or plot.
noun:  (particularly) Malicious or malevolent intention.
noun:  The shape or appearance given to an object, especially one that is intended to make it more attractive.
noun:  The art of designing
verb:  (transitive) To plan and carry out (a picture, work of art, construction etc.).
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To plan (to do something).
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To assign, appoint (something to someone); to designate.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.
verb:  To manifest requirements to be satisfied by an object or process for them to solve a problem.

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