Thesaurus: structure

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1. n. The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.
2. n. Manner of building; form; make; construction.
3. n. 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.
4. n. 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. n. That which is built; a building; esp., a building of some size or magnificence; an edifice.
6. n. a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts
7. n. the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts
8. n. the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations
9. n. a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement
10. n. the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships
11. v. give a structure to
12. 1. The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction. [R.] His son builds on, and never is content Till the last farthing is in structure spent. J. Dryden, Jr. 2. Manner of building; form; make; construction. Want of insight into the structure and constitution of the terraqueous globe. 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. Dana. 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. 5. That which is built; a building; esp., a building of some size or magnificence; an edifice. There stands a structure of majestic frame. Pope. Columnar structure. See under Columnar.