Fashion Definition–noun | 1. | a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses. | | 2. | conventional usage in dress, manners, etc., esp. of polite society, or conformity to it: the dictates of fashion; to be out of fashion. | | 3. | manner; way; mode: in a warlike fashion. | | 4. | the make or form of anything: He liked the fashion of the simple, sturdy furniture. | | 5. | a kind; sort: All fashions of people make up the world. | | 7. | Obsolete. act or process of making. | –verb (used with object) | 8. | to give a particular shape or form to; make: The cavemen fashioned tools from stones. | | 9. | to accommodate; adjust; adapt: doctrines fashioned to the varying hour. | | 10. | Shipbuilding. to bend (a plate) without preheating. | | 11. | Obsolete. to contrive; manage. | —Idiom | 12. | after or in a fashion, in some manner or other or to some extent; in a makeshift, unskillful, or unsatisfactory way: He's an artist after a fashion. | |
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Design Definition–verb (used with object) | 1. | to prepare the preliminary sketch or the plans for (a work to be executed), esp. to plan the form and structure of: to design a new bridge. | | 2. | to plan and fashion artistically or skillfully. | | 3. | to intend for a definite purpose: a scholarship designed for foreign students. | | 4. | to form or conceive in the mind; contrive; plan: The prisoner designed an intricate escape. | | 5. | to assign in thought or intention; purpose: He designed to be a doctor. | | 6. | Obsolete. to mark out, as by a sign; indicate. | –verb (used without object) | 7. | to make drawings, preliminary sketches, or plans. | | 8. | to plan and fashion the form and structure of an object, work of art, decorative scheme, etc. | –noun | 9. | an outline, sketch, or plan, as of the form and structure of a work of art, an edifice, or a machine to be executed or constructed. | | 10. | organization or structure of formal elements in a work of art; composition. | | 11. | the combination of details or features of a picture, building, etc.; the pattern or motif of artistic work: the design on a bracelet. | | 12. | the art of designing: a school of design. | | 13. | a plan or project: a design for a new process. | | 14. | a plot or intrigue, esp. an underhand, deceitful, or treacherous one: His political rivals formulated a design to unseat him. | | 15. | designs, a hostile or aggressive project or scheme having evil or selfish motives: He had designs on his partner's stock. | | 16. | intention; purpose; end. | | 17. | adaptation of means to a preconceived end. | |
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School Definition–noun | 1. | an institution where instruction is given, esp. to persons under college age: The children are at school. | | 2. | an institution for instruction in a particular skill or field. | | 3. | a college or university. | | 4. | a regular course of meetings of a teacher or teachers and students for instruction; program of instruction: summer school. | | 5. | a session of such a course: no school today; to be kept after school. | | 6. | the activity or process of learning under instruction, esp. at a school for the young: As a child, I never liked school. | | 7. | one's formal education: They plan to be married when he finishes school. | | 8. | a building housing a school. | | 9. | the body of students, or students and teachers, belonging to an educational institution: The entire school rose when the principal entered the auditorium. | | 10. | a building, room, etc., in a university, set apart for the use of one of the faculties or for some particular purpose: the school of agriculture. | | 11. | a particular faculty or department of a university having the right to recommend candidates for degrees, and usually beginning its program of instruction after the student has
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completed general education: medical school. | | 12. | any place, situation, etc., tending to teach anything. | | 13. | the body of pupils or followers of a master, system, method, etc.: the Platonic school of philosophy. | | 14. | Art. | a. | a group of artists, as painters, writers, or musicians, whose works reflect a common conceptual, regional, or personal influence: the modern school; the Florentine school. | | b. | the art and artists of a geographical location considered indepe
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ndently of stylistic similarity: the French school. | | | 15. | any group of persons having common attitudes or beliefs. | | 16. | Military, Navy. parts of close-order drill applying to the individual (school of the soldier), the squad (school of the squad), or the like. | | 17. | Australian and New Zealand Informal. a group of people gathered together, esp. for gambling or drinking. | | 18. | schools, Archaic. the faculties of a university. | | 19. | Obsolete. the schoolmen in a medieval university. | –adjective | 20. | of or connected with a school or schools. | | 21. | Obsolete. of the schoolmen. | –verb (used with object) | 22. | to educate in or as if in a school; teach; train. |
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