单词 | in design |
释义 | > as lemmasin (also under) design P2. in (also under) design: at the planning stage; in the process of being designed. ΚΠ 1645 D. Buchanan Short Rel. Main Passages of Things 20 It is the custome of the wise Court, to have, at one and the same time, divers undertakings in designe. 1702 R. Stephens in F. Bacon Lett. Introd. p. vi Materials..to be added, towards the erecting that new Fabrick of the Sciences which he had long had in Design. 1809 Cobbett's Compl. Coll. State Trials IV. 650 Waller..was the principal actor and contriver of this Plot, which was in design when he and the other commissioners were at Oxford. 1873 Morning Post 8 Aug. 4/5 The question of the width and size of docks was raised..on the occasion of the Director of Works' proposal as to the size of the docks then under design. 1949 Bull. Atomic Scientists Mar. 81/2 This has been under design at the Argonne National Laboratory for the past two years. 2008 M. Bennett in S. Schaltegger et al. Environmental Managem. Accounting for Cleaner Production xxv. 446 The new system..was in design at the time of this research but was only subsequently implemented. < as lemmas |
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