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DESIGNED
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I. (adjective)
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Meaning:
Done or made or performed with purpose and intent
Example:
well-designed houses
Synonyms:
designed; intentional; unintentional
Classified under:
Similar:
fashioned (planned and made or fashioned artistically)
Antonym:
undesigned (not done or made or performed with purpose or intent)
II. (verb)
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Past simple / past participle of the verb design
Context examples:
A device designed to remove air from a space or fluid.
(Air Eliminator Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)
A filtering device designed to remove particles from air.
(Air Cleaner Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)
Similarly, vaccines designed to elicit antibodies against this target might provide long-lasting protection against any influenza strain, potentially eliminating the need for annual seasonal influenza vaccination.
(Human antibody reveals hidden vulnerability in influenza virus, National Institutes of Health)
An international team of scientists, led by the University of Granada (UGR), has designed a new hydrogel using pioneering polymer microarrays technology, which successfully helps to regenerate cartilage.
(Scientists design a new hydrogel that helps regenerate cartilage, University of Granada)
The researchers also monitored brain activity in response to sounds of toneless noises that were designed to match the frequency levels of each tone played.
(Our brains appear uniquely tuned for musical pitch, National Institutes of Health)
The device, made from a single nanowire 1000 times thinner than a human hair, is the smallest spectrometer ever designed.
(Nanowires replace Newton’s famous glass prism, University of Cambridge)
These are short pieces of RNA designed and built with specific sequences that interfere with production of key proteins crucial for survival of the virus without interfering with any processes in uninfected cells.
(Lipid Nanoparticle Therapeutic Treats Ebola in Monkeys, NIH)
A device or material designed to take in or attenuate a force or substance.
(Absorber Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)
Diagnostic tests designed to be performed at specific age markers.
(Age Appropriate Screening, NCI Thesaurus)
You have withheld the advantages which you must know to have been designed for him.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
