structure

1. n. The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction. Source: opted

2. n. Manner of building; form; make; construction. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

5. n. That which is built; a building; esp., a building of some size or magnificence; an edifice. Source: opted

6. n. a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts Source: wordnet

7. n. the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts Source: wordnet

8. n. the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations Source: wordnet

9. n. a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement Source: wordnet

10. n. the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships Source: wordnet

11. v. give a structure to Source: wordnet

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. Source: webster

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