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Meaning of 'structure' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Structure [ n.]
- The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.
- Manner of building; form; make; construction.
- 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.
- 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.
- That which is built; a building; esp., a building of some size or magnificence; an edifice.

Meaning of 'structure' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . structure [ n]
Meaning (1):
- the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts
Example in sentence:
  • artists must study the structure of the human body;
  • the structure of the benzene molecule
Meaning (2):
- a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement
Example in sentence:
  • he has good bone structure
Meaning (3):
- the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations
Example in sentence:
  • his lectures have no structure
Meaning (4):
- a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts
Example in sentence:
  • she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons;
  • the structure consisted of a series of arches
Meaning (5):
- the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships
Example in sentence:
  • sociologists have studied the changing structure of the family;
  • the social organization of England and America is very different
6 . structure [ v]
Meaning (6):
- give a structure to
Example in sentence:
  • I need to structure my days