Designed and Purposed

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Designed adjective - Done or made or performed with purpose and intent.

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Purposed and designed are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Purposed" instead the word "Designed" as an adjective or a noun or a verb.

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Designed and purposed are semantically related. You can use "Designed" instead the word "Purposed" as an adjective or a noun or a verb.

Some of them, such as Enterprise corridor, engineering, transporter room, and sickbay were originally designed for the movies, re-purposed for TNG, then re-purposed again for the movies, and back to television.

Source: Recycled Set
It is also sometimes argued that Hitler himself crippled the Me 262 program by demanding that the new aircraft be purposed as a fighter-bomber rather than the originally designed air superiority fighter.

Source: Useful Notes / Nazis with Gnarly Weapons
Until he discovered that it only worked on rocks — the technique was designed for work in quarries, but can be re-purposed for Nigh-Invulnerability training — Ranma was afraid that he'd be shattered by Ryōga.

Source: Finger Poke of Doom

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