different between behold vs design

English

Etymology

From Middle English beholden, from Old English behealdan (“to hold, have, occupy, possess, guard, preserve, contain, belong, keep, observe, consider, behold, look at, gaze on, see, signify, avail, effect, take care, beware, be cautious, restrain, act, behave”), from Proto-West Germanic *bihaldan? (“to hold with, keep”), equivalent to be- +? hold. Cognate with Saterland Frisian behoolde (“to keep”), Dutch behouden (“to keep, restrain, preserve”), German behalten (“to keep, restrain, remember”), Danish and Norwegian beholde (“to keep”) and Swedish behålla (“to keep”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /b??h??ld/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /b??ho?ld/

Verb

behold (third-person singular simple present beholds, present participle beholding, simple past beheld, past participle beheld or (rare) beholden)

1. (transitive) To see or look at, esp. appreciatively; to descry, look upon.
   • 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 532:

     […] Alaeddin ate and drank and was cheered and after he had rested and had recovered spirits he cried, "Ah, O my mother, I have a sore grievance against thee for leaving me to that accursed wight who strave to compass my destruction and designed to take my life. Know that I beheld Death with mine own eyes at the hand of this damned wretch, whom thou didst certify to be my uncle; […]
2. (intransitive) To look.
3. (transitive) To contemplate.

Usage notes

Rarely used in informal speech. The past participle beholden now has a meaning detached from the other forms of the word.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:look

Derived terms

• beholder
  • eye of the beholder

Translations

Interjection

behold

1. look, a call of attention to something
2. lo!

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:lo

Translations

References

• behold in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• behold in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [b?e?h?l?]

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German beholt, behalt, from the verb beholden; see also Danish beholde.

Noun

behold c (uninflected)

1. (archaic) haven, refuge

   in the phrases i behold (“intact”) and i god behold (“safe”)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

behold

1. imperative of beholde

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

behold

1. imperative of beholde

English

Etymology

From Middle English designen, from Old French designer, from Latin design? (“I mark out, point out, describe, design, contrive”), from de- (or dis-) + sign? (“I mark”), from signum (“mark”). Doublet of designate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??za?n/
• Hyphenation: de?sign
• Rhymes: -a?n

Noun

design (countable and uncountable, plural designs)

1. 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.
2. A plan (with more or less detail) for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system.

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

4. The composition of a work of art.
5. Intention or plot.
   • 1763, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, History of Louisisana (PG), p. 40:

     I give it you without any other design than to shew you that I reckon nothing dear to me, when I want to do you a pleasure.
   1. (particularly) Malicious or malevolent intention.

6. The shape or appearance given to an object, especially one that is intended to make it more attractive.
7. The art of designing

Synonyms

• (plan): See Thesaurus:diagram
• (intention): See Thesaurus:design

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Verb

design (third-person singular simple present designs, present participle designing, simple past and past participle designed)

1. (transitive) To plan and carry out (a picture, work of art, construction etc.). [from 17th c.]
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To plan (to do something).

3. (obsolete, transitive) To assign, appoint (something to someone); to designate. [16th-19th c.]
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.10:

     he looks not below the Moon, but hath designed the regiment of sublunary affairs unto inferiour deputations.

   • 1700, John Dryden, Translations from Ovid's Epistles, Preface

     He was designed to the study of the law.

4. (obsolete, transitive) To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.
5. To manifest requirements to be satisfied by an object or process for them to solve a problem.
   • Meet me to-morrow where the master / And this fraternity shall design.

Derived terms

• designable
• designed
• designedly
• designer
• foredesign
• outdesign
• overdesign
• predesign
• redesign
• undesignable
• undesigned
• undesignedly

Translations

Further reading

• design in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• design in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• design at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Edgins, deigns, dinges, gnides, nidges, sdeign, signed, singed

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?d?zajn]

Noun

design m

1. design

Declension

Further reading

• design in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
• design in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English design.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di?z?i?n/
• Hyphenation: de?sign

Noun

design n (plural designs)

1. design

Synonyms

• ontwerp

Finnish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English design.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dis?i?n/, [?dis??i?n]

Noun

design

1. design

   Synonym: suunnittelu

Declension

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English design.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.zajn/

Noun

design m (plural designs)

1. design

Hungarian

Alternative forms

• dizájn

Etymology

Borrowed from English design, from Latin design? (“I mark out, describe, plan”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?diza?jn]
• Hyphenation: de?sign
• Rhymes: -a?jn

Noun

design (plural designok)

1. design (art and profession of designing functional objects such as furniture, vehicles, household appliances, etc.)

   Synonym: formatervezés

Declension

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English design.

Noun

design m (invariable)

1. design (industrial)

Anagrams

• sdegni

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

design

1. imperative of designe

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English design.

Noun

design m (plural designs)

1. design (plan)

   Synonym: projeto

Romanian

Etymology

From English design.

Noun

design n (uncountable)

1. design

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English design.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??sajn/

Noun

design c

1. a design

Declension

Related terms

• designa
• designer
• designpris