different between design vs hew

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

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English hewen, from Old English h?awan, from Proto-West Germanic *hauwan, from Proto-Germanic *hawwan?, from Proto-Indo-European *kewh?- (“to strike, hew, forge”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hju?/, [çju?]
• Rhymes: -u?
• Homophone: hue

Verb

hew (third-person singular simple present hews, present participle hewing, simple past hewed or (rare) hew, past participle hewed or hewn)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down.
   • c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act IV Scene vii^[1]:

     Hew them to pieces, hack their bones asunder […]

   • 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 6

     Among other things he found a sharp hunting knife, on the keen blade of which he immediately proceeded to cut his finger. Undaunted he continued his experiments, finding that he could hack and hew splinters of wood from the table and chairs with this new toy.

2. (transitive) To shape; to form.

   to hew out a sepulchre

   • Look unto the rock whence ye are hewn.

   • December 19, 1734, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift

     rather polishing old works than hewing out new

3. (transitive, US) To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with to.
   • 1905, Albert Osborn, John Fletcher Hurst: A Biography,^[2] Jennings & Graham, page 428

     Few men measured up to his standard of righteousness; he hewed to the line.

   • 1998, Frank M. Robinson and Lawrence Davidson, Pulp Culture: The Art of Fiction Magazines,^[3] Collectors Press, Inc., ?ISBN, page 103

     Inside the stories usually hewed to a consistent formula: no matter how outlandish and weird the circumstances, in the end everything had to have a natural, if not plausible, ending—frequently, though not always, involving a mad scientist.

   • 2008, Chester E. Finn, Troublemaker: A Personal History of School Reform Since Sputnik,^[4] Princeton University Press, ?ISBN, page 28

     Faculty members and students alike were buzzing with the fashionable nostrums that dominated U.S. education discourse in the late sixties, […] These hewed to the recommendations of the Plowden Report, […]

   • King recovered the rights on the condition that he'd stop publicly disparaging Kubrick's version. "For a long time I hewed that line," he told CBS News in June. "And then Mr. Kubrick died. So now I figured, what the hell. I've gone back to saying mean things about it."

Derived terms

• behew
• forhew
• hewer
• rough-hew

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

hew (countable and uncountable, plural hews)

1. (obsolete) hue; colour

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

2. (obsolete) shape; form

   • Whose semblance she did carrie under feigned hew.

3. (obsolete) Destruction by cutting down.

Anagrams

• weh