Design vs. Curate

Designnoun

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.

Curatenoun

an assistant rector or vicar

Designnoun

A pattern, as an element of a work of art or architecture.

Curatenoun

a parish priest

Designnoun

The composition of a work of art.

Curateverb

(transitive) To act as a curator for.

‘She curated the traveling exhibition.’; ‘They carefully curated the recovered artifacts.’;

Designnoun

Intention or plot.

‘To be hateful of the truth by design.’;

Curateverb

(transitive) To apply selectivity and taste to, as a collection of fashion items or web pages.

Designnoun

The shape or appearance given to an object, especially one that is intended to make it more attractive.

Curateverb

(intransitive) To work or act as a curator.

‘Not only does he curate for the museum, he manages the office and fund-raises.’;

Designnoun

The art of designing

‘Danish furniture design is world-famous.’;

Curatenoun

One who has the cure of souls; originally, any clergyman, but now usually limited to one who assists a rector or vicar.

‘All this the good old man performed alone,He spared no pains, for curate he had none.’;

Designverb

(transitive) To plan and carry out (a picture, work of art, construction etc.).

Curatenoun

a person authorized to conduct religious worship

Designverb

To plan (to do something).

‘The king designed to mount an expedition to the New World.’;

Curatenoun

a member of the clergy engaged as assistant to a vicar, rector, or parish priest.

Designverb

To assign, appoint (something to someone); to designate.

Curatenoun

a minister with pastoral responsibility.

Designverb

To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.

Curateverb

select, organize, and look after the items in (a collection or exhibition)

‘both exhibitions are curated by the Centre's director’;

Designverb

To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.

Curateverb

select the performers or performances that will feature in (an arts event or programme)

‘in past years the festival has been curated by the likes of David Bowie’;

Designverb

To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.

‘We shall seeJustice design the victor's chivalry.’; ‘Meet me to-morrow where the masterAnd this fraternity shall design.’;

Curateverb

select, organize, and present (online content, merchandise, information, etc.), typically using professional or expert knowledge

‘people not only want to connect when using a network but they also enjoy getting credit for sharing or curating information’;

Designverb

To create or produce, as a work of art; to form a plan or scheme of; to form in idea; to invent; to project; to lay out in the mind; as, a man designs an essay, a poem, a statue, or a cathedral.

Curate

A curate (, sometimes ) is a person who is invested with the care or cure (cura) of souls of a parish. In this sense, correctly means a parish priest; but in English-speaking countries the term curate is commonly used to describe clergy who are assistants to the parish priest.

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Designverb

To intend or purpose; - usually with for before the remote object, but sometimes with to.

‘Ask of politicians the end for which laws were originally designed.’; ‘He was designed to the study of the law.’;

Designverb

To form a design or designs; to plan.

Designnoun

A preliminary sketch; an outline or pattern of the main features of something to be executed, as of a picture, a building, or a decoration; a delineation; a plan.

Designnoun

A plan or scheme formed in the mind of something to be done; preliminary conception; idea intended to be expressed in a visible form or carried into action; intention; purpose; - often used in a bad sense for evil intention or purpose; scheme; plot.

‘The vast design and purpos of the King.’; ‘The leaders of that assembly who withstood the designs of a besotted woman.’; ‘A . . . settled design upon another man's life.’; ‘How little he could guess the secret designs of the court!’;

Designnoun

Specifically, intention or purpose as revealed or inferred from the adaptation of means to an end; as, the argument from design.

Designnoun

The realization of an inventive or decorative plan; esp., a work of decorative art considered as a new creation; conception or plan shown in completed work; as, this carved panel is a fine design, or of a fine design.

Designnoun

The invention and conduct of the subject; the disposition of every part, and the general order of the whole.

‘Is he a prudent man . . . that lays designs only for a day, without any prospect to the remaining part of his life?’; ‘I wish others the same intention, and greater successes.’; ‘It is the purpose that makes strong the vow.’;

Designnoun

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’;

Designnoun

an arrangement scheme;

‘the awkward design of the keyboard made operation difficult’; ‘it was an excellent design for living’; ‘a plan for seating guests’;

Designnoun

something intended as a guide for making something else;

‘a blueprint for a house’; ‘a pattern for a skirt’;

Designnoun

a decorative or artistic work;

‘the coach had a design on the doors’;

Designnoun

an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions;

‘his intent was to provide a new translation’; ‘good intentions are not enough’; ‘it was created with the conscious aim of answering immediate needs’; ‘he made no secret of his designs’;

Designnoun

a preliminary sketch indicating the plan for something;

‘the design of a building’;

Designnoun

the creation of something in the mind

Designverb

make or work out a plan for; devise;

‘They contrived to murder their boss’; ‘design a new sales strategy’; ‘plan an attack’;

Designverb

design something for a specific role or purpose or effect;

‘This room is not designed for work’;

Designverb

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

‘Chanel designed the famous suit’;

Designverb

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

‘design a better mousetrap’; ‘plan the new wing of the museum’;

Designverb

create designs;

‘Dupont designs for the house of Chanel’;

Designverb

conceive or fashion in the mind; invent;

‘She designed a good excuse for not attending classes that day’;

Designverb

intend or have as a purpose;

‘She designed to go far in the world of business’;

Designnoun

a plan or drawing produced to show the look and function or workings of a building, garment, or other object before it is made

‘he has just unveiled his design for the new museum’;

Designnoun

the art or action of conceiving of and producing a plan or drawing of something before it is made

‘good design can help the reader understand complicated information’;

Designnoun

the arrangement of the features of an artefact, as produced from following a plan or drawing

‘inside, the design reverts to turn-of-the-century luxe’;

Designnoun

a decorative pattern

‘pottery with a lovely blue and white design’;

Designnoun

purpose or planning that exists behind an action, fact, or object

‘the appearance of design in the universe’;

Designverb

decide upon the look and functioning of (a building, garment, or other object), by making a detailed drawing of it

‘a number of architectural students were designing a factory’;

Designverb

do or plan (something) with a specific purpose in mind

‘the tax changes were designed to stimulate economic growth’;

Design

A design is a plan or specification for the construction of an object or system or for the implementation of an activity or process, or the result of that plan or specification in the form of a prototype, product or process. The verb to design expresses the process of developing a design.