structure
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Noun (5)structures
- 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”Synonyms: constructionType of artifact, artefactKinds shelter, building, floor, porch, area, memorial, housing, bridge, tower, obstruction +53 moreParts foundation, structural member, plate
- 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”Type of constitution, compositionKinds framework, infrastructure, computer architecture, cytoarchitecture
- the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations“his lectures have no structure”Type of cognition, knowledgeKinds form, arrangement, syntax, morphology
- a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement“he has good bone structure”Synonyms: anatomical structurecomplex body partbodily structurebody structureType of body partKinds valve, passage, bridge, alveolar bed, tooth, limbus, fold, bulb, radicle, capsule +51 more
- the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships“the social organizations of England and America are very different”“sociologists have studied the changing structure of the family”Synonyms: social organizationsocial organisationsocial structuresocial systemType of system, schemeKinds segregation, pluralism, matriarchy, feudalism, class structure, meritocracy, patriarchyMember of societyMembers political system, form of government
Verb (1)structures, structured
- give a structure to“I need to structure my days”More general organize, organiseMore specific restructure, reconstitute
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Translations
Noun cohesive whole built up of distinct parts
- Spanish
- estructura
- French
- structure
- German
- Struktur
- Italian
- struttura
- Portuguese
- estrutura
- Turkish
- yapı
- Russian
- структу́ра struktúra
- Arabic
- هَيْكَل haykal
- Chinese
- 结构 jiégòu
- Japanese
- 構造 kōzō
27 more languages
- Dutch
- structuur
- Polish
- struktura
- Swedish
- struktur
- Greek
- δομή domí
- Korean
- 구조 gujo
- Indonesian
- struktur
- Vietnamese
- kết cấu
- Hungarian
- szerkezet
- Portuguese (PT)
- estrutura
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 結構 jiégòu
- Albanian
- strukturë
- Catalan
- estructura
- Czech
- struktura
- Esperanto
- strukturo
- Estonian
- struktuur
- Finnish
- rakennelma
- Georgian
- სტრუქტურა sṭrukṭura
- Hebrew
- מִבְנֶה mivné
- Icelandic
- bygging
- Latvian
- struktūra
- Norwegian
- struktur
- Romanian
- structură
- Scottish Gaelic
- togail
- Serbo-Croatian
- struktura
- Slovenian
- struktura
- Swahili
- muundo
- Welsh
- strwythur
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: 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. rare
His son builds on, and never is content Till the last farthing is in structure spent.— John, Jr. Dryden
2. Manner of building; form; make; construction.
Want of insight into the structure and constitution of the terraqueous globe.— John 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.— James Dwight Dana
4. Biology 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.— Alexander Pope
Columnar structure. See under Columnar.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54