'Structure' definitions:
Definition of 'structure'
From: WordNet
noun
A thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts; "the structure consisted of a series of arches"; "she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons" [syn: structure, construction]
noun
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"
noun
The complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations; "his lectures have no structure"
noun
A particular complex anatomical part of a living thing; "he has good bone structure" [syn: structure, anatomical structure, complex body part, bodily structure, body structure]
noun
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 organisation, social structure, social system, structure]
verb
Give a structure to; "I need to structure my days"
Definition of 'Structure'
From: GCIDE
- 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.] [1913 Webster]
- His son builds on, and never is content Till the last farthing is in structure spent. --J. Dryden, Jr. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Manner of building; form; make; construction. [1913 Webster]
- Want of insight into the structure and constitution of the terraqueous globe. --Woodward. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- It [basalt] has often a prismatic structure. --Dana. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 5. That which is built; a building; esp., a building of some size or magnificence; an edifice. [1913 Webster]
- There stands a structure of majestic frame. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- Columnar structure. See under Columnar. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'structure'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- action,
- adobe house,
- aesthetic form,
- anagnorisis,
- anatomy,
- angle,
- appositive,
- archetype,
- architectonics,
- architecture,
- argument,
- arrange,
- arrangement,
- array,
- art form,
- assemblage,
- assemble,
- assembly,
- atmosphere,
- attribute,
- attributive,
- background,
- build,
- build up,
- building,
- buildup,
- casa,
- cast,
- catastrophe,
- character,
- characterization,
- clarity,
- clear-cutness,
- clearness,
- cliff dwelling,
- coherence,
- color,
- combination,
- combine,
- complement,
- complex,
- complication,
- compose,
- composition,
- compound,
- concord,
- configuration,
- conformation,
- connectedness,
- consist of,
- consistency,
- constitute,
- constitution,
- construct,
- construction,
- construction modifier,
- consulate,
- continuity,
- contrivance,
- cool off,
- country house,
- country seat,
- crystallinity,
- cut,
- cutting,
- dacha,
- deanery,
- deep structure,
- definition,
- denouement,
- deploy,
- deployment,
- design,
- development,
- device,
- direct object,
- directness,
- disposal,
- dispose,
- disposition,
- distinctness,
- dwelling house,
- Dymaxion house,
- edifice,
- embassy,
- embodiment,
- embody,
- enter into,
- episode,
- erection,
- establishment,
- explicitness,
- fable,
- fabric,
- fabricate,
- fabrication,
- falling action,
- farm,
- farmhouse,
- fashion,
- fashioning,
- feel,
- figuration,
- figure,
- filler,
- finish,
- form,
- form-function unit,
- format,
- formation,
- frame,
- framework,
- function,
- genre,
- getup,
- gimmick,
- go into,
- grade,
- grain,
- granular texture,
- hall,
- harmonize,
- harmony,
- hierarchize,
- house,
- houseboat,
- IC analysis,
- immediate constituent analysis,
- impression,
- incident,
- incorporate,
- incorporation,
- indentation,
- indirect object,
- inner form,
- join,
- junction,
- knub,
- lake dwelling,
- lay out,
- layout,
- levels,
- limpidity,
- line,
- line up,
- lineup,
- living machine,
- local color,
- lodge,
- lucidity,
- make,
- make up,
- makeup,
- manor house,
- manse,
- marshal,
- marshaling,
- matrix,
- merge in,
- methodize,
- mix,
- mixture,
- modality,
- mode,
- model,
- modifier,
- mold,
- mood,
- morphology,
- motif,
- movement,
- mythos,
- nap,
- nature,
- network,
- normalize,
- nub,
- object,
- order,
- organization,
- organize,
- pacify,
- packaged house,
- parsonage,
- pattern,
- peace,
- pellucidity,
- penthouse,
- peripeteia,
- perspicuity,
- phrase structure,
- piece together,
- piecing together,
- pile,
- pit,
- plain English,
- plain speech,
- plain style,
- plainness,
- plan,
- Platonic form,
- Platonic idea,
- plot,
- pock,
- predicate,
- prefab,
- prefabricated house,
- prefabrication,
- presidential palace,
- proportion,
- prototype,
- protuberance,
- put together,
- putting together,
- pyramid,
- qualifier,
- quiet,
- quietude,
- ranch house,
- rank,
- ranks,
- recognition,
- rectory,
- regularity,
- regularize,
- regulate,
- rising action,
- roof,
- routine,
- routinize,
- scheme,
- secondary plot,
- set,
- set up,
- setup,
- shag,
- shallow structure,
- shape,
- shaping,
- significant form,
- simplicity,
- skeleton,
- skyscraper,
- slant,
- slot,
- slot and filler,
- sod house,
- split-level,
- stamp,
- standardize,
- story,
- straightforwardness,
- strata,
- structuring,
- style,
- subject,
- subplot,
- superstructure,
- surface,
- surface structure,
- surface texture,
- switch,
- symmetry,
- syneresis,
- syntactic analysis,
- syntactic structure,
- syntactics,
- syntax,
- synthesis,
- synthesize,
- system,
- systematize,
- tagmeme,
- texture,
- thematic development,
- theme,
- tone,
- topic,
- tower,
- town house,
- tranquilize,
- tranquillity,
- transparency,
- transpicuity,
- turn,
- twist,
- type,
- unadorned style,
- unambiguousness,
- underlying structure,
- unequivocalness,
- uniformity,
- unite in,
- unmistakableness,
- vicarage,
- wale,
- weave,
- White House,
- woof,
- word arrangement,
- word order
Words containing 'Structure'
- Structural,
- Structured,
- structuralism,
- structurally,
- structuring,
- Columnar structure,
- Fluidal structure,
- Fluxional structure,
- Structural Botany,
- Structural formula,
- Structural shape,
- Structural steel,
- Zonal structure,
- anatomical structure,
- bodily structure,
- body structure,
- cartilaginous structure,
- class structure,
- data structure,
- defensive structure,
- fine structure,
- fluxion structure,
- hierarchical structure,
- horny structure,
- megalithic structure,
- muscular structure,
- neural structure,
- organic structure,
- phrase structure,
- physical structure,
- plant structure,
- power structure,
- reproductive structure,
- sentence structure,
- skeletal structure,
- social structure,
- sound structure,
- structural anthropology,
- structural gene,
- structural genomics,
- structural geology,
- structural iron,
- structural isomer,
- structural linguistics,
- structural member,
- structural sociology,
- supporting structure,
- syllable structure,
- vascular structure,
- word structure,
- hierarchical data structure,
- tube-shaped structure