1. A plan or scheme.
2. Purpose or intention combined with a plan.
formed design. Criminal law. The deliberate and fixed intention to kill, though not necessarily a particular person. See PREMEDITATION. [Cases: Homicide 535.]
3. The pattern or configuration of elements in something, such as a work of art.
4. Patents. The drawing or the depiction of an original plan for a novel pattern, model, shape, or configuration that is chiefly decorative or ornamental. • If it meets other criteria, a design may also be protectable as a trademark. — design, vb.
