designs
/dɪˈzaɪnz/
designs is the plural of design.
designs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of design.
Meaning of design
Noun
design (countable and uncountable, plural designs)
- 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.
- The Wikilambda developers charmingly admit that they are not very experienced in language design.2026, Michael Falk, “Wikilambda the ultimate: the Wikimedia foundation’s search for the perfect language”, in AI & Society: Knowledge, Culture and Communication, →DOI
- A plan (with more or less detail) for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system.
- The initial design of the park was rejected for being too expensive.
- Synonyms:
- diagram
- A pattern, as an element of a work of art or architecture.
- We're working on some new designs for our range of summer shirts
- The composition of a work of art.
- Intention or plot.
- We have designs on winning the league next season.
- The shape or appearance given to an object, especially one that is intended to make it more attractive.
- He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
Phrases with designs
- type designs
- block designs
- had designs on
- has designs on
- designs to cost
- graphic designs
- have designs on
- interior designs
- defensive designs
- having designs on
- zero-order designs
- model-based designs
1 more phrasesFewer phrases
Words that rhyme with designs
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- argentines
- bines
- bread lines
- breadlines
- brines
- carbines
- clementines
- co-signs
- coal mines
- coalmines
- colour outside the lines
- cosigns
- cosines
- defines
- dines
- fine lines
- fuel lines
- gas lines
- kines
- maligns
- mines
- misdefines
- ninety-nines
- number nines
- overdefines
- overlines
- overmines
- pines
- redefines
- refines
- relines
- serpentines
- shines
- shrines
- signs
- sixty-nines
- spines
- sublines
- telephone lines
- turpentines
- undefines
- underdefines
- underlines
- undermines
- vines
- water lines
- waterlines
- whines
Questions about designs
- What is designs the plural of?
- Designs is the plural of design.
- How do you pronounce designs?
- Designs is pronounced /dɪˈzaɪnz/.
Words near designs in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: designs (page history and authors); design (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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