Associations to the word «Designing»

Wiktionary

DESIGNING, verb. Present participle of design
DESIGNING, adjective. Artful; scheming
DESIGNING, noun. A process of design.

Dictionary definition

DESIGNING, noun. The act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan); "he contributed to the design of a new instrument".
DESIGNING, adjective. Concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest; "a selfish and designing nation obsessed with the dark schemes of European intrigue"- W.Churchill; "a scheming wife"; "a scheming gold digger".

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky