intricate design
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- noun
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diseño intrincado
- The boys look on as the two men paint an intricate design on the shafts.
- paint an intricate design
- covered with intricate designs
Now inspired moves of improvisation could be recorded, saved, considered, prioritized, made into intricate designs.
- Now inspired moves of improvisation could be recorded, saved, considered, prioritized, made into intricate designs.
Examples
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Some of the pumpkins would be carved into intricate designs, others left plain, and still others made into traditional jack-o'-lanterns.
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Upon close inspection of this tiny creation, however, I discovered an intricate design in its tiny exoskeleton.
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The ceilings will be painted with intricate designs.
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The intricate designs on some of the hands suggest the filigreed patterns of lace gloves worn by European women.
Academic text (2002) -
So, too, for the village where cloths were painstakingly decorated in intricate designs with paint on the end of a stick.
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Themes of the recent past, such as Disney and Ancient Civilizations, have let students create intricate designs on floats.
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Intricate designs of ivory cover the upper bodice of the dress with short sleeves.
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The intricate designs and rounded shapes of this Fulani milk gourd from Nigeria convey meaning.
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Each shop has its own hand-carved stamps bearing the name of the shop owner set within an intricate design that has been handed down by many generations of chechia makers.
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The fabric had an intricate design featuring swirling patterns and vibrant colors.
Synonyms
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5.1
A detailed, complex design that has many connected parts like leaves or flowers
Antonyms
How Elaborate
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a design that is very detailed and complex' is directly and transparently composed from 'intricate' (complex, elaborate) + 'design' (plan, drawing). This adjective+noun combination follows a standard, cross-linguistic compositional pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Intricate design may come from the image of many small parts woven or linked together, like threads in lace or the tiny loops in fine jewelry. The word intricate suggests parts closely joined and the word design is the pattern they make, so the phrase came to mean a pattern that is 'detailed' and 'complex'.