Design and Thing

Design

Design noun - Something that one hopes or intends to accomplish.
Usage example: the immigrant laborer had ambitious designs in mind for his daughter

Thing and design are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Thing" instead a noun "Design".

Thing

Thing noun - Something that one hopes or intends to accomplish.
Usage example: the important thing is that we get the project back on schedule

Design and thing are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Design" instead a noun "Thing".

How words are described

old old design old thing
good good design good thing
best best design best thing
exact exact design exact thing
Other adjectives: particular, similar, common, alien, poor, actual, entire, great, cool, bad, new, possible, odd, strange, different, red, creepy.
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