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designed
1. v. simple past tense and past participle of design
2. adj. created according to a design
3. adj. (dated) Planned; designated.
design
1. n. A plan (with more or less detail) for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system.
2. n. A pattern, as an element of a work of art or architecture.
3. n. The composition of a work of art.
4. n. Intention or plot.
To be hateful of the truth by design.
5. n. The shape or appearance given to an object, especially one that is intended to make it more attractive.
6. n. The art of designing
Danish furniture design is world-famous.
7. v. To plan and carry out (a picture, work of art, construction etc.).
8. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To plan (to do something).
The king designed to mount an expedition to the New World.
9. v. (obsolete, transitive) To assign, appoint (something to someone); to designate.
10. v. (obsolete, transitive) To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.
to
1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive.
I want to leave.
He asked me what to do.
I don’t know how to say it.
I have places to go and people to see.
2. part. As above, with the verb implied.
"Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.".
If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to.
3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs.
I have to do laundry today.
4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at.
We are walking to the shop.
5. prep. Used to indicate purpose.
He devoted himself to education.
They drank to his health.
6. prep. Used to indicate result of action.
His face was beaten to a pulp.
7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application.
similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking.
8. prep. (obsolete,) As a.
With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); t
9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison.
one to one = 1:1
ten to one = 10:1.
I have ten dollars to your four.
10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation.
Three squared or three to the second power is nine.
Three to the power of two is nine.
Three to the second is nine.
11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object.
I gave the book to him.
12. prep. (time) Preceding.
ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour).
13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains.
Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it.
There's a lot of sense to what he says.
14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At.
Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y.
15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position.
Please push the door to.
16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind.
17. adv. misspelling of too
assist
1. v. (archaic) To stand (at a place) or to (an opinion).
A great part of the nobility assisted to his opinion.
2. v. (archaic) To attend (with at)
3. v. To help.
4. v. (sports) To make a pass that leads directly towards scoring.
5. v. (medicine) To help compensate for what is missing with the help of a medical technique or therapy.
6. n. A helpful action or an act of giving.
The foundation gave a much needed assist to the shelter.
7. n. (sports) The act of helping another player score points or goals
8. n. (soccer) A decisive pass made to the goal scorer
9. n. (baseball) A defensive play, allowing a teammate to record a putout.
He had two assists in the game.
or
1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...)
In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian.
He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what.
2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or.
3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.
4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false).
It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold!
5. conj. Connects two equivalent names.
The country Myanmar, or Burma
6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR
7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on).
10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously.
11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere.
enhance
1. v. (obsolete) To lift, raise up.
2. v. To augment or make something greater.
3. v. To improve something by adding features.
4. v. (intransitive) To be raised up; to grow larger.
A debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.
5. v. (radiology) To take up contrast agent (for an organ, tissue, or lesion).
sight
1. n. (in the singular) The ability to see.
He is losing his sight and now can barely read.
2. n. The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view.
to gain sight of land
3. n. Something seen.
4. n. Something worth seeing; a spectacle, either good or bad.
We went to London and saw all the sights – Buckingham Palace, Tower Bridge, and so on.
You really look a sight in that ridiculous costume!
5. n. A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
6. n. A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained.
the sight of a quadrant
7. n. (now colloquial) a great deal, a lot; frequently used to intensify a comparative.
a sight of money
This is a darn sight better than what I'm used to at home!
8. n. In a drawing, picture, etc., that part of the surface, as of paper or canvas, which is within the frame or the border or margin. In a frame, the open space, the opening.
9. n. (obsolete) The instrument of seeing; the eye.
10. n. Mental view; opinion; judgment.
In their sight it was harmless.
11. v. To register visually.
12. v. To get sight of (something).
to sight land from a ship
13. v. To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of; also, to give the proper elevation and direction to by means of a sight.
to sight a rifle or a cannon
14. v. To take aim at.

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