different between bespoke vs design

English

Etymology

In sense “custom-made”, 1755, from earlier bespoken (c. 1600), form of bespeak, in sense “arrange beforehand” (1580s), a prefixed variant of speak; compare order, made-to-order.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /b??sp??k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /b??spo?k/
• Hyphenation: be?spoke
• Rhymes: -??k

Adjective

bespoke (not comparable)

1. Individually or custom made.
   • 1983, Kurt Andersen, “Her Majesty in Mellowland,” Time, 7 March, 1983,^[1]

     Marc Valeric, a Beverly Hills milliner, sold 125 bespoke hats in two weeks to women desperate to dress properly for royal receptions.

   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 10,

     People gathered round, since it was something of an event, their MP, in his bespoke pinstripe and red tie, clutching an old Wellington boot and about to hurl it through the air.

   • 2016, "The Tube: Going Underground", Season 1, Episode 6

     There are 436 escalators in the London Underground, and every one is totally bespoke.

   • 2017 "Elements Part 2: Bespoken For", Adventure Time

     You need to get a nice bespoked suit. "Bespoke" means i's custom-made to fit your specific dimensions and emphasize what's flattering about your shape.

2. Relating to someone who makes custom-made products, especially clothing items.

   a bespoke tailor

Usage notes

Primarily used for tailoring, now also used more generally, as an alternative term for custom-made, notably for software, as in a “bespoke solution”.

Synonyms

• See also: Thesaurus:custom-made
• custom
• custom made
• purpose-built
• tailored

Translations

Verb

bespoke

1. simple past tense of bespeak
2. (archaic) past participle of bespeak

References

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