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See also:structuré

English

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Etymology

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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.

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Noun

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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.
    • 2019 September 26, Gianluca Mezzofiore, “Wanted: A design team for a building project at Earth’s most remote location – Antarctica”, inCNN‎[1]:
      Built in the 1980s, the country’s Scott Base consists of 12structures that officials want replaced by three large, interconnected buildings, plus a separate helicopter hangar.
  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[2], 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.

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cohesive whole built up of distinct parts
underlying shape of a solid
overall form or organization of something
set of rules defining behaviour
computing: several pieces of data treated as a unit
fishing: underwater terrain or objects
body, such as a political party, with a cohesive purpose or outlook
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Verb

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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.

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(transitive) to give structure to; to arrange

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing fromLatinstructūra.

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Noun

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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)

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Latin

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Participle

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strūctūre

  1. vocativemasculinesingular ofstrūctūrus
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