Drawing vs. Design

Drawingverb

present participle of draw

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.

Drawingnoun

A picture, likeness, diagram or representation, usually drawn on paper.

Designnoun

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

Drawingnoun

The act of producing such a picture.

Designnoun

The composition of a work of art.

Drawingnoun

Such acts practiced as a graphic art form.

Designnoun

Intention or plot.

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

Drawingnoun

The process of drawing or pulling something.

‘Proverb: An official is great in his office as a well is rich in drawings of water.’;

Designnoun

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

Drawingnoun

An act or event in which the outcome (e.g., designating a winner) is selected by chance in the form of a blind draw, notably of lots; especially such a contest in which a winning name or number is selected randomly by removing (or drawing) it from a container, popularly a hat).

Designnoun

The art of designing

‘Danish furniture design is world-famous.’;

Drawingnoun

A small portion of tea for steeping.

Designverb

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

Drawingnoun

The act of pulling, or attracting.

Designverb

To plan (to do something).

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

Drawingnoun

The act or the art of representing any object by means of lines and shades; especially, such a representation when in one color, or in tints used not to represent the colors of natural objects, but for effect only, and produced with hard material such as pencil, chalk, etc.; delineation; also, the figure or representation drawn.

Designverb

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

Drawingnoun

The process of stretching or spreading metals as by hammering, or, as in forming wire from rods or tubes and cups from sheet metal, by pulling them through dies.

Designverb

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

Drawingnoun

The process of pulling out and elongating the sliver from the carding machine, by revolving rollers, to prepare it for spinning.

Designverb

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

Drawingnoun

The distribution of prizes and blanks in a lottery.

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.’;

Drawingnoun

an illustration that is drawn by hand and published in a book or magazine;

‘it is shown by the drawing in Fig. 7’;

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.

Drawingnoun

a representation of forms or objects on a surface by means of lines;

‘drawings of abstract forms’; ‘he did complicated pen-and-ink drawings like medieval miniatures’;

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.’;

Drawingnoun

the creation of artistic drawings;

‘he learned drawing from his father’;

Designverb

To form a design or designs; to plan.

Drawingnoun

players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed according to the drawing of lots

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.

Drawingnoun

act of getting or draining something such as electricity or a liquid from a source;

‘the drawing of water from the well’;

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!’;

Drawingnoun

the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling

Designnoun

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

Drawing

Drawing is a form of visual art in which an artist uses instruments to mark paper or other two-dimensional surface. Drawing instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, various kinds of paints, inked brushes, colored pencils, crayons, charcoal, chalk, pastels, erasers, markers, styluses, and metals (such as silverpoint).

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.