n. | 1. | The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction. | |||
2. | Manner of building; form; make; construction. | ||||
3. | Arrangement of parts, of organs, or of constituent particles, in a substance or body; | ||||
4. | (Biol.) Manner of organization; the arrangement of the different tissues or parts of animal and vegetable organisms; | ||||
5. | That which is built; a building; esp., a building of some size or magnificence; an edifice.
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Noun | 1. | structure - a thing constructed; a complex construction or entity; "the structure consisted of a series of arches"; "she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons" Synonyms: construction |
2. | structure - the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts; "artists must study the structure of the human body"; "the structure of the benzene molecule" | |
3. | structure - the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations; "his lectures have no structure" | |
4. | structure - a particular complex anatomical structure; "he has good bone structure" | |
5. | structure - the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships; "the social organization of England and America is very different"; "sociologists have studied the changing structure of the family" | |
Verb | 1. | structure - give a structure to; "I need to structure my days" |