–adjective

1.	being within; inside of anything; internal; inner; further toward a center: the interior rooms of a house.

2.	of or pertaining to that which is within; inside: an interior view.

3.	situated well inland from the coast or border: the interior towns of a country.

4.	of or pertaining to the inland.

5.	domestic: interior trade.

6.	private or hidden; inner: interior negotiations of the council.

7.	pertaining to the mind or soul; mental or spiritual: the interior life.

–noun

8.	the internal or inner part; inside.

9.	Architecture. a. the inside part of a building, considered as a whole from the point of view of artistic design or general effect, convenience, etc. b. a single room or apartment so considered.

10.	a pictorial representation of the inside of a room.

11.	the inland parts of a region, country, etc.: the Alaskan interior.

12.	the domestic affairs of a country as distinguished from its foreign affairs: the Department of the Interior.

13.	the inner or inward nature or character of anything.

14.	Mathematics. the largest open set contained in a given set, as the points in a circle not including the boundary.

–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 sketche 3e8 s, 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.