Read full poem →The Earth deform and Heaven frght.
For whose excrescence ill design'd,
Nature must a new Center find,
Dictionary Entry
design
Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/dɪˈzaɪn/Word FrequencyCommon (6.05)Curriculum FrequencyLess common (1)Used In Literature ↓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.
In a Sentence
“Writers often choose design when discussing complex ideas.”
Published Usage Examples
“He says that, even though in practice inferring design is the first step in identifying an intelligent agent, taken by itself _design does not require that such an agent be posited.”
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Common Phrases
. designdesign systemdesign experimental
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Poetry examples for “design”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And keep the one half from his Harry.
But fate doth so alternate the design,
Whilst that in Heav'n, this light on earth must shine.
Read full poem →Will't please you sit and look at her? I said
"Frà Pandolf" by design: for never read
Strangers like you that pictured countenance,
Read full poem →No more thy England own!
Dare injured nations form the great design,
To make detested tyrants bleed?
Read full poem →Then steered the white moth thither in the night?
What but design of darkness to appall?—
If design govern in a thing so small.
Read full poem →And if Fortune go cross to my plan,
Believe me, my friend, tho' I mourn the design
I shall never lament for the man.
