design

1. (transitive) To plan and carry out (a picture, work of art, construction etc.).Examples: "He always designs gaming laptops from 4:00 pm to 1:00 am."; "She designed his retirement from the Royal Irish Artillery, and had negociated an immediate berth for him on the Staff of the Commander of the Forces, and a prospective one in the household of Lord Townshend […]"; "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."transitive

2. (obsolete, intransitive) To plan (to do something).Examples: "The king designed to mount an expedition to the New World."intransitiveobsolete

3. (obsolete, transitive) To assign, appoint (something to someone); to designate.Examples: "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."obsoletetransitive

4. (obsolete, transitive) To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.obsoletetransitive