structure
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
fishing
hobbies
human-sciences
lifestyle
logic
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French structure, from Latin structūra (“a fitting together, adjustment, building, erection, a building, edifice, structure”), from struere, past participle structus (“pile up, arrange, assemble, build”). Compare construct, instruct, destroy, etc.
Inflected forms:
form: structures
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: structures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: structuring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: structured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: structured
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A cohesive whole built up of distinct parts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The birds had built an amazing structure out of sticks and various discarded items.
The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement.
Built in the 1980s, the country’s Scott Base consists of 12 structures that officials want replaced by three large, interconnected buildings, plus a separate helicopter hangar.
gloss: The underlying shape of a solid.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He studied the structure of her face.
gloss: The overall form or organization of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The structure of a sentence.
The structure of the society was still a mystery.
Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.
gloss: A set of rules defining behaviour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For some, the structure of school life was oppressive.
gloss: Several pieces of data treated as a unit.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This structure contains both date and timezone information.
gloss: Underwater terrain or objects (such as a dead tree or a submerged car) that tend to attract fish
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: There's lots of structure to be fished along the west shore of the lake; the impoundment submerged a town there when it was built.
gloss: A body, such as a political party, with a cohesive purpose or outlook.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The South African leader went off to consult with the structures.
gloss: A set along with a collection of finitary functions and relations.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To give structure to; to arrange.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I'm trying to structure my time better so I'm not always late.
I've structured the deal to limit the amount of money we can lose.
Next, let’s structure (42c) The girl walked. The verb walked is like slept: an intransitive verb V₀. Its dependent is a subject noun, girl. The noun girl has as its dependent the determiner the, […]
Derived words: accessory gonadal structure
aerostructure
algebraic structure
antistructure
apostructure
ball-and-pillow structure
bandstructure
band structure
biostructure
bone structure
capital structure
chemical structure
control structure
costructure
cyberstructure
cytostructure
data structure
deep structure
destructure
differential structure
dramatic structure
echostructure
eigenstructure
endostructure
exostructure
fine structure
fine structure constant
fine-structure constant
flame structure
geostructure
glycostructure
heterostructure
histostructure
homostructure
hyperfine structure
hyperstructure
infostructure
isostructure
Lewis structure
magnetostructure
mathematical structure
mega structure
megastructure
mega-structure
mesostructure
metastructure
metrical structure
metric structure
misstructure
monostructural
morphostructure
nanostructure
narrative structure
neurostructure
nonstructure
organizational breakdown structure
overstructure
paleostructure
periodic structure
phrase structure
playstructure
play structure
power structure
prestructure
primary structure
product breakdown structure
protostructure
quantized electronic structure
quaternary structure
secondary structure
stereostructure
structome
structronics
structurable
structure-activity relationship
structureless
structurely
structure sheaf
structurist
structurization
structurize
structurome
suprastructure
surface structure
technostructure
tertiary structure
ultrastructure
understructure
vestigial structure
Weaire-Phelan structure
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