FromMiddle Frenchstructure, fromLatinstructūra(“a fitting together, adjustment, building, erection, a building, edifice, structure”), fromstruere, past participlestructus(“pile up, arrange, assemble, build”). Compareconstruct,instruct,destroy, etc.

• (UK)IPA^(key):/ˈstɹʌk(t)ʃə(ɹ)/,[ˈstɹɐk(t)ʃə(ɹ)]
• (US)IPA^(key):/ˈstɹʌkt͡ʃɚ/
• (General Australian)IPA^(key):[ˈstʃɹɐktʃə]

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• Hyphenation:struc‧ture

structure (countable anduncountable,pluralstructures)

1. Acohesive whole built up of distinctparts.

   Synonym:formation

   The birds had built an amazingstructure out of sticks and various discarded items.

   • 1963,Margery Allingham, chapter 1, inThe China Governess: A Mystery, London:Chatto & Windus,→OCLC:

     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 actualstructure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement.

2. The underlyingshape of a solid.

   Synonym:formation

   He studied thestructure of her face.

3. The overallform ororganization of something.

   Synonyms:makeup,configuration;see alsoThesaurus:composition

   Thestructure of a sentence.

   Thestructure of the society was still a mystery.

   • 2012 March,Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, inAmerican Scientist‎^[1], volume100, number 2, archived fromthe original on19 February 2013, page106:

     Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecularstructure, 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.

4. A set ofrules defining behaviour.

   For some, thestructure of school life was oppressive.

5. (computing) Several pieces ofdata treated as a unit.

   Thisstructure contains both date and timezone information.

6. (fishing,uncountable)Underwaterterrain or objects (such as a dead tree or a submerged car) that tend toattract fish

   There's lots ofstructure to be fished along the west shore of the lake; the impoundment submerged a town there when it was built.

7. A body, such as apolitical party, with a cohesive purpose or outlook.

   The South African leader went off to consult with thestructures.

8. (logic) Aset along with a collection offinitaryfunctions andrelations.

structure (third-person singular simple presentstructures,present participlestructuring,simple past and past participlestructured)

1. (transitive) To give structure to; to arrange.

   I'm trying tostructure my time better so I'm not always late.

   I'vestructured the deal to limit the amount of money we can lose.

•  structure on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Learned borrowing fromLatinstructūra.

• IPA^(key):/stʁyk.tyʁ/

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• Rhymes:-yʁ
• Hyphenation:struc‧ture
• Homophone:structures

structure f (pluralstructures)

1. structure

   Synonyms:agencement,disposition,ordre,organisation

   Antonyms:anarchie,chaos

   Le plain-chant est la paraphrase aérienne et mouvante de l'immobilestructure des cathédrales. (Huysmans, En route, 1895)

• infrastructure
• structural
• structuralisme
• structuraliste
• structurant
• structuration
• structurer
  • déstructurer
  • restructurer
• structuration
• structure de données
• structurel
• structurellement
• substructure
• superstructure

• “structure”, inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

strūctūre

1. vocativemasculinesingular ofstrūctūrus