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ontwerp — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • adumbration noun The state of being in shadow or shade; (countable) a shadow.
  • design noun A plan showing how something should look, function, or be built.
  • plan noun A set of intended actions worked out in advance to achieve a goal.

Senses

ontwerp is used for these senses in English:

  • adumbration (countable) A faint sketch; a brief representation, an outline.
  • design A plan (with more or less detail) for the structure and functions of an artifact, building or system.
  • design The art of designing
  • plan A drawing showing technical details of a building, machine, etc., with unwanted details omitted, and often using symbols rather than detailed drawing to represent doors, valves, etc.
  • plan A two-dimensional drawing of a building as seen from above with obscuring or irrelevant details such as roof removed, or of a floor of a building, revealing the internal layout; as distinct from the elevation.

adumbration — full definition

  1. noun The state of being in shadow or shade; (countable) a shadow.
  2. noun A faint sketch; a brief representation, an outline.
  3. noun The supposed practice of displaying only outline of a charge (“image displayed on an escutcheon”), sometimes filled in with a darker shade than the field.
  4. noun A rough or symbolic representation; a vague indication of what is to come, a foreshadowing.

design — full definition

  1. noun A plan showing how something should look, function, or be built.
  2. verb To plan and work out the details of something before it is made.
  3. noun A decorative pattern.

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