What's the difference between design and predesign?

Design


Definition:

  • (n.) To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.
  • (n.) To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.
  • (n.) To create or produce, as a work of art; to form a plan or scheme of; to form in idea; to invent; to project; to lay out in the mind; as, a man designs an essay, a poem, a statue, or a cathedral.
  • (n.) To intend or purpose; -- usually with for before the remote object, but sometimes with to.
  • (v. i.) To form a design or designs; to plan.
  • (n.) A preliminary sketch; an outline or pattern of the main features of something to be executed, as of a picture, a building, or a decoration; a delineation; a plan.
  • (n.) A plan or scheme formed in the mind of something to be done; preliminary conception; idea intended to be expressed in a visible form or carried into action; intention; purpose; -- often used in a bad sense for evil intention or purpose; scheme; plot.
  • (n.) Specifically, intention or purpose as revealed or inferred from the adaptation of means to an end; as, the argument from design.
  • (n.) The realization of an inventive or decorative plan; esp., a work of decorative art considered as a new creation; conception or plan shown in completed work; as, this carved panel is a fine design, or of a fine design.
  • (n.) The invention and conduct of the subject; the disposition of every part, and the general order of the whole.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Questionnaires were used and the respondent self-designation method measured leadership.
  • (2) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
  • (3) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
  • (4) Single-case experimental designs are presented and discussed from several points of view: Historical antecedents, assessment of the dependent variable, internal and external validity and pre-experimental vs experimental single-case designs.
  • (5) We report a series of experiments designed to determine if agents and conditions that have been reported to alter sodium reabsorption, Na-K-ATPase activity or cellular structure in the rat distal nephron might also regulate the density or affinity of binding of 3H-metolazone to the putative thiazide receptor in the distal nephron.
  • (6) This study was designed to investigate the localization and cyclic regulation of the mRNA for these two IGFBPs in the porcine ovary, RNA was extracted from whole ovaries morphologically classified as immature, preovulatory, and luteal.
  • (7) As important providers of health care education, nurses need to be fully informed of the research findings relevant to effective interventions designed to motivate health-related behavior change.
  • (8) The present study was designed to test the hypothesis that the decreased Epi response following ET was due to 1) depletion of adrenal Epi content such that adrenomedullary stimulation would not release Epi, 2) decreased Epi release with direct stimulation, i.e., desensitization of release, or 3) decreased afferent signals generated by ET itself.
  • (9) According to the finite element analysis, the design bases of fixed restorations applied in the teeth accompanied with the absorption of the alveolar bone were preferred.
  • (10) These clones, designated as TcHMC-2, showed strong cytotoxicity against both HMC-2 and K562 cells.
  • (11) By the 1860s, French designs were using larger front wheels and steel frames, which although lighter were more rigid, leading to its nickname of “boneshaker”.
  • (12) In a double-blind, crossover-designed study, 9 male subjects (age range: 18-25 years) received 25 mg orally, four times per day of either S or an identically-appearing placebo (P) 2 d prior to and during HA.
  • (13) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
  • (14) Though the 54-year-old designer made brief returns to the limelight after his fall from grace, designing a one-off collection for Oscar de la Renta last year , his appointment at Margiela marks a more permanent comeback.
  • (15) What we’re doing is designed to improve people’s lives.” "I don't see race, colour or creed, and neither do my children," he added.
  • (16) This study was designed to examine the effect of the storage configuration of skin and the ratio of tissue-to-storage medium on the viability of skin stored under refrigeration.
  • (17) However, each of the studies had numerous methodological flaws which biased their results against finding a relationship: either their outcome measures had questionable validity, their research designs were inappropriate, or the statistical analyses were poorly conceived.
  • (18) Methods to minimize bias in the design and implementation of consultation-liaison research are suggested.
  • (19) To distinguish the various types, we designated the 90 kd types from CBA and AKR mice C6A1 and C6A2, respectively, and the corresponding 100 kd types C6B1 and C6B2, respectively.
  • (20) Knapman concluded that the 40-year-old designer, whose full name was Lee Alexander McQueen, "killed himself while the balance of his mind was disturbed".

Predesign


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To design or purpose beforehand; to predetermine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Seemingly, proplatelets are fragmented in the lungs at predesignated locations along the proplatelet process.
  • (2) 96 patients with meningitis due to Neisseria meningitidis and Diplococcus pneumoniae were treated with epicillin or ampicillin according to a predesigned randomization chart.
  • (3) In addition, "blind" histopathologic evaluation of four predesignate colon locations revealed a dose-related incidence of microscopic preinvasive and invasive colon carcinomas.
  • (4) The relapse rate after discontinuation of antiepileptic drug treatment was investigated in 146 children with epilepsy, in whom medication was withdrawn according to a predesigned protocol, after a seizure-free period of at least 2 years and normalization of the EEG.
  • (5) Workers in 22 funeral home franchises were surveyed with a predesigned questionnaire.
  • (6) Smoking habits of the medical students, both undergraduates and postgraduates, were evaluated by self-administering a predesigned proforma.
  • (7) Both require a major time commitment to learn and to create custom punctuation files for journals not included in the predesigned punctuation files.
  • (8) The order-entry pathway allows the research pharmacist to predesign medication labels that are specific to each study and include all required information.
  • (9) Nevertheless, epithelial cell surface-ECM interaction can be modified in the embryo at particular times to permit predesignated epithelial-mesenchymal transformations, as for example at the primitive streak.
  • (10) College sophomores and sixth-grade readers were asked to indicate whether or not a predesignated target letter was present in these strings.
  • (11) A predesigned questionnaire was administered to the mothers to obtain information on age, education, fertility parameters and antenatal care during pregnancy with the index children.
  • (12) What's different about this new breed of audio-visual entertainer is that what they offer are "custom-branded visuals predesigned to fit specific songs".
  • (13) The results are interpreted on the basis of a multiple-stage processing model which assumes interaction between stimuli at different levels at different values of t. In experiment 2 the subject's task was to detect the presence or absence of a predesignated form.
  • (14) At their first prenatal medical appointments, 305 lower socioeconomic status women residing in predesignated lead-hazardous areas of Cincinnati were recruited.
  • (15) Sequencing of the hgiCIIRM region (carrying predesigned small mutations in the R gene) disclosed three open reading frames (ORFs): one small ORF preceding the methltransferase (MTase)-encoding gene, plus those encoding M.HgiCII (49,620 Da) and R.HgiCII (30,891 Da).
  • (16) Microbead samples collected after B. subtilis challenge from predesignated depths and locations within the air-fluidized bed at 0.25, 1, 2, 4, 24, and 48 hours were assayed for colony-forming units (CFU) of challenge bacteria by end point dilution and streak-plate assays.
  • (17) Twenty control subjects were given predesigned exercise programs and told to exercise four times per week for 6 months.
  • (18) Twenty experimental subjects were given predesigned exercise programs but were monitored by a strength and conditioning specialist for the same period.
  • (19) Seven building programs were identified as projected, or in predesign or design stages.
  • (20) In the simultaneous task, two words were not matched as quickly as a single letter and a letter in a predesignated location within a word.

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