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say it: di-ZAHY-ning
designing is a noun and adjective meaning "the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan)". It is pronounced /dɪˈzaɪnɪŋ/ — di-ZAHY-ning. It carries 2 recorded senses.
the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan)
“he contributed to the design of a new instrument”
concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest
“a selfish and designing nation obsessed with the dark schemes of European intrigue”
“a scheming wife”
“a scheming gold digger”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for designing come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.