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de·sign·ing

(dĭ-zī′nĭng)

adj.

1. Conniving; crafty.

2. Showing or exercising forethought.

de·sign′ing·ly adv.

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designing

(dɪˈzaɪnɪŋ)

adj

artful and scheming; conniving; crafty

deˈsigningly adv

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de•sign•ing

(dɪˈzaɪ nɪŋ)

adj.

1. scheming; crafty.

2. showing or using forethought.

[1610–20]

de•sign′ing•ly, adv.

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Noun	1.	designing - the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan); "he contributed to the design of a new instrument" design creating by mental acts - the act of creating something by thinking planning - the act or process of drawing up plans or layouts for some project or enterprise
Adj.	1.	designing - concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest; "a selfish and designing nation obsessed with the dark schemes of European intrigue"- W.Churchill; "a scheming wife"; "a scheming gold digger" scheming artful - marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft; "the artful dodger"; "an artful choice of metaphors"

designing

adjective scheming, plotting, intriguing, crooked (informal), shrewd, conspiring, cunning, sly, astute, treacherous, unscrupulous, devious, wily, crafty, artful, conniving, Machiavellian, deceitful He was trapped into marriage by a designing witch.

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designing

adjective

Coldly planning to achieve selfish aims:

calculating, scheming.

Translations

تَصْميم

návrhářstvíprojektování

formgivningkonstruktiontegning

Design

diseño

stylisme

hönnun

návrhárstvo

model yaratma

设计工作

designing

[dɪˈzaɪnɪŋ]

A. ADJ → intrigante

B. N → diseño m, el diseñar

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designing

adj → intrigant, hinterhältig

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designing

[dɪˈzaɪnɪŋ] adj (scheming) → astuto/a, intrigante

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

design

(diˈzain) verb

to invent and prepare a plan of (something) before it is built or made. A famous architect designed this building.

noun

1. a sketch or plan produced before something is made. a design for a dress.

2. style; the way in which something has been made or put together. It is very modern in design; I don't like the design of that building.

3. a pattern etc. The curtains have a flower design on them.

4. a plan formed in the mind; (an) intention. Our holidays coincided by design and not by accident.

deˈsigner noun

a person who makes designs or patterns. He is the designer of the yacht.

deˈsigning noun

the art of making designs or patterns. dress-designing.

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Suiting the action to the word, he thrust her rather suddenly and prematurely into a chair, and designing to reassure her by a little harmless jocularity, such as is adapted to please and fascinate the sex, converted his right forefinger into an ideal bradawl or gimlet, and made as though he would screw the same into her side-- whereat Miss Miggs shrieked again, and evinced symptoms of faintness.

But forasmuch as she knowed that Simmun, if united to any designing and artful minxes

(she would name no names, for that was not her dispositions)--to ANY designing and artful minxes--must be made miserable and unhappy for life, she DID incline towards prewentions.

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The same evening I was in my room alone, designing the new print, when there came a knock at the door, and Gentleman Jones walked in.

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Will Atkins, with abundance of frankness and good humour, said they had met with affliction enough to make them all sober, and enemies enough to make them all friends; that, for his part, he would live and die with them, and was so far from designing anything against the Spaniards, that he owned they had done nothing to him but what his own mad humour made necessary, and what he would have done, and perhaps worse, in their case; and that he would ask them pardon, if I desired it, for the foolish and brutish things he had done to them, and was very willing and desirous of living in terms of entire friendship and union with them, and would do anything that lay in his power to convince them of it; and as for going to England, he cared not if he did not go thither these twenty years.

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The second will be espoused with caution by those who will seriously consider the difficulty of collecting men dispersed over the whole Union; the injury to the innocent, from the procrastinated determination of the charges which might be brought against them; the advantage to the guilty, from the opportunities which delay would afford to intrigue and corruption; and in some cases the detriment to the State, from the prolonged inaction of men whose firm and faithful execution of their duty might have exposed them to the persecution of an intemperate or designing majority in the House of Representatives.

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We are dedicated to designing environments that help improve quality of life and quality of care.

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She was thoroughly trained in exteriors at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and then spent several years designing buildings along the East Coast.

Blumenfeld aiming to bring interiors in from cold

All mold bases are modular, allowing maximum flexibility in designing a mold base using standard parts.

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Dominic Gallello, CEO of Graphisoft, stated that "With Graphisoft's release of ArchiCAD 10 and the Green Building Studio web service version 2.0 our users have the key elements necessary for designing today's sustainable buildings."

ARCHITECTS USE WEB SERVICE FOR EARLY DESIGN PHASE

Given this, there should be little surprise that the title of his presentation was "Designing in Hostile Territory."

Learning about design from non-auto people: in which ideas about design and innovation are encountered at a conference at which there are no people from the auto industry

Design research efforts, especially in designing ICT products, draw on multiple traditions encompassing humanistic and scientific inquiry.