designing as a noun: - 1
as an adjective: - 1
designing
noun
1 designing
The act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan).
synonym: design.
Roget 554:
representation,
representment†;
imitation
etc.
19;
illustration,
delineation,
depictment†;
imagery,
portraiture,
iconography;
design,
designing;
art,
fine arts;
painting
etc.
556;
sculpture
etc.
557;
engraving
etc.
558;
photography,
cinematography;
radiography,
autoradiography [Bioch.],
fluorography [Chem],
sciagraphy†.
personation,
personification;
impersonation;
drama
etc.
599.
picture,
photo,
photograph,
daguerreotype,
snapshot;
X-ray photo;
movie film,
movie;
tracing,
scan,
TV image,
video image,
image file,
graphics,
computer graphics,
televideo,
closed-circuit TV.
copy
etc.
21;
drawing,
sketch,
drought,
draft;
plot,
chart,
figure,
scheme.
image,
likeness,
icon,
portrait,
striking likeness,
speaking likeness;
very image;
effigy,
facsimile.
figure,
figure head;
puppet,
doll,
figurine,
aglet†,
manikin,
lay-figure,
model,
mammet†,
marionette,
fantoccini†,
waxwork,
bust;
statue,
statuette.
ideograph,
hieroglyphic,
anaglyph,
kanji [Jap.];
diagram,
monogram.
map,
plan,
chart,
ground plan,
projection,
elevation
(plan)
626.
ichnography†,
cartography;
atlas;
outline,
scheme;
view
etc.
(painting)
556;
radiograph,
scotograph†,
sciagraph†;
spectrogram,
heliogram†.
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Dutch: vormgeving, dessin, design
Polish: design, wzornictwo, dizajn
adjective
1 designing
Concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest:
— A selfish and designing nation obsessed with the dark schemes of European intrigue.
synonym: scheming.
Roget 702:
cunning,
crafty,
artful;
skillful
etc.
698;
subtle,
feline,
vulpine;
cunning as a fox,
cunning as a serpent;
deep,
deep laid;
profound;
designing,
contriving;
intriguing
etc.
v.;
strategic,
diplomatic,
politic,
Machiavelian,
timeserving†;
artificial;
tricky,
tricksy†;
wily,
sly,
slim,
insidious,
stealthy;
underhand
etc.
(hidden)
528;
subdolous†;
deceitful
etc.
545;
slippery as an eel,
evasive
etc.
623;
crooked;
arch,
pawky†,
shrewd,
acute;
sharp,
sharp as a tack,
sharp as a needle†;
canny,
astute,
leery,
knowing,
up to snuff,
too clever by half,
not to be caught with chaff.
tactful,
diplomatic,
politic;
polite
etc.
894.
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Polish: intrygancki
Moby thesaurus: Byzantine, Machiavellian, Machiavellic, abstract art, acute, arch, art, art form, artful, artist, arts and crafts, arts of design, astute, cagey, calculating, calligraphy, canny, cave art, ceramics, clever, collusive, connivent, conniving, conspiring, contriving, crafty, crooked, cunning, cute, deceitful, decoration, deep, deep-laid, design, devious, diplomatic, double-dealing, engraving, etching, feline, fine arts, folk art, foxy, graphic arts, guileful, ingenious, insidious, intriguing, inventive, knowing, pawky, photography, plastic art, plotting, politic, primitive art, ready, resourceful, scheming, sculpture, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slippery, sly, smooth, snaky, sneaky, sophistical, stealthy, stratagemical, strategic, subtile, subtle, supple, tactical, the arts, treacherous, trickish, tricksy, tricky, underhanded, up to, vulpine, wary, wily ... show more.
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