DESIGNING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does designing mean? 

• DESIGNING (noun)
  The noun DESIGNING has 1 sense:

1. the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan)

  Familiarity information: DESIGNING used as a noun is very rare.

• DESIGNING (adjective)
  The adjective DESIGNING has 1 sense:

1. concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest

  Familiarity information: DESIGNING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DESIGNING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

design; designing

Context example:

he contributed to the design of a new instrument

Hypernyms ("designing" is a kind of...):

creating by mental acts (the act of creating something by thinking)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "designing"):

planning (the act or process of drawing up plans or layouts for some project or enterprise)

Derivation:

design (make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form)

design (create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner)

• DESIGNING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest

Synonyms:

designing; scheming

Context example:

a scheming gold digger

Similar:

artful (marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft)

 Context examples 

I told her that I believed she had given me a faithful account of herself, and that we had both been hapless instruments in designing hands.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

After designing the structure of the model, the researchers tested its function by evaluating the transfer of glucose from the maternal compartment to the fetal compartment.

(Researchers design placenta-on-a-chip to better understand pregnancy, NIH)

The long-term goals of the research include improving treatments for those with hearing impairments and designing machines that can interpret sound with abilities that rival those of humans.

(Understanding how the brain makes sense of sound, National Science Foundation)

Nature had been busy designing him, as she had been busy with all normal men, for the purpose of loving.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Antibodies to this closed state have been found, but designing an effective vaccine that prompts the immune system to generate such antibodies has been a challenge.

(The Structure and Dynamics of HIV Surface Spikes, NIH)

"These kinds of mineral structures are probably the future for designing durable and safe inorganic pigments."

(Chemists find path to 'new blue' in meteorite minerals, National Science Foundation)

A process that involves designing, fabrication, assembly and/or processing of a device or device component.

(Device or Device Component Manufacturing, NCI Thesaurus)

The research involves designing the materials theoretically, fabricating them, and characterizing their properties.

(Picoscience and a plethora of new materials, National Science Foundation)

Designing drugs that mimic the effect of the protective variants in MC4R could provide new, safer weight loss therapies.

(Discovery of genetic variants that protect against obesity and type 2 diabetes could lead to new weight loss medicines, University of Cambridge)

It suggests the nervous system may have several alternate pathways that we can tap into when designing new therapies.

(“Sixth sense” may be more than just a feeling, NIH)