elaborate design

collocation in English

meaningsofelaborateanddesign

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elaborate
adjective
uk
/iˈlæb.ər.ət/us
/iˈlæb.ɚ.ət/
containing a lot of careful detail or many ...
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design
noun
uk
/dɪˈzaɪn/us
/dɪˈzaɪn/
a drawing or set of drawings showing how a building or product is to be made and how it will work ...
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(Definition ofelaborateanddesignfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The reduction applies to working overalls but not to overalls ofelaboratedesign.
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Despite popular imagination and media depictions of all-white clothing,elaboratedesignand bright colors were favored.
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The flowers, which depending on species are 3-10 centimeters in diameter, are dramatic and have anelaboratedesignwhich prevents self-pollination.
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In modern foundation piecing, anelaboratedesignfeaturing pointed shapes, is used.
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Theelaboratedesignof the station was very well accepted by passengers from the beginning.
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A substantial part of this success was due to the unusually ambitious andelaboratedesignof the show, which created a number of production challenges.
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The royal jewellers at the time came up with anelaboratedesignof golden coronets with crimson velvet and ermine edges.
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Typological comparisons have been made of various artifacts highlighting a certain regional variation with moreelaboratedesignarrowheads and less pressure flaking.
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In the other method, called "gereh-chini" wooden panels of geometric shapes would be created individually, then combined to create anelaboratedesign.
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Two subsequent studies with more elaborate designs have been interpreted as being consistent with normal levels of forward masking.
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Elaboratedesigncontinues down below the roof: the eaves underneath the roof's base rest upon carven brackets, which are secured to pillars whose capitals are trimmed with a sawtooth pattern.
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Two of the latter are undecorated and two incised with the elaborate designs.
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Cornices are often gilded and ofelaboratedesign, but they are less fashionable today than before it had been discovered that elaborate draperies harbor dust and microbes.
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This period saw the climax of earlier developments towards larger buildings, more complex and concentrated construction, and moreelaboratedesign, both externally and in the castles' interiors.
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Tristram notes that fragments of a reredos survive with paintings of four saints on them, and he also comments on crosses of ratherelaboratedesign.
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He started collecting decorative silk, velvet and brocade fabrics, with elaborate designs resembling those in the carpets.
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Those with talent may move on to more elaborate designs apprenticing to a master outside the home.
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More elaborate designs have gear assemblies and can be powered by electric, hydraulic, pneumatic or internal combustion drives.
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Medieval bakers used carved boards to create elaborate designs.
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Today, the paper is still made as an art form and often painted with elaborate designs.
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