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structure |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Structure \Struc"ture\, n. [L. structura, from struere structum to arrange, build, construct; perhaps akin to E. strew: cf F. structure. Cf {Construe}, {Destroy}, {Instrument}, {Obstruct}.] 1. The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction. [R.] His son builds on and never is content Till the last farthing is in structure spent. --J. Dryden, Jr 2. Manner of building; form make construction. Want of insight into the structure and constitution of the terraqueous globe. --Woodward. 3. Arrangement of parts of organs, or of constituent particles, in a substance or body; as the structure of a rock or a mineral; the structure of a sentence. It [basalt] has often a prismatic structure. --Dana. 4. (Biol.) Manner of organization; the arrangement of the different tissues or parts of animal and vegetable organisms; as organic structure, or the structure of animals and plants; cellular structure. 5. That which is built; a building; esp., a building of some size or magnificence; an edifice. There stands a structure of majestic frame. --Pope. {Columnar structure}. See under {Columnar}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: structure n 1: 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" [syn: {construction}] 2: the manner of construction of something and the disposition of its parts "artists must study the structure of the human body"; "the architecture of a computer's system software" [syn: {architecture}] 3: the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations; "his lectures have no structure" 4: a particular complex anatomical structure; "he has good bone structure" [syn: {anatomical structure}, {complex body part}, {bodily structure}, {body structure}] 5: 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" [syn: {social organization}, {social structure}, {social system}] v : give a structure to "I need to structure my days"
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