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Pronunciation:  'strukchur

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WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  
  2. [n]  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"
  3. [n]  
  4. [n]  the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations; "his lectures have no structure"
  5. [n]  the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships; "the social organization of England and America is very different"; "sociologists have studied the changing structure of the family"
  6. [v]  give a structure to; "I need to structure my days"
 
 Synonyms: anatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part, construction, social organisation, social organization, social structure, social system
 
 See Also: airdock, altar, alveolar bed, apodeme, arcade, arch, architecture, area, arena, arrangement, artefact, artifact, aster, balcony, ball, bascule, base, blade, boarding, bodily cavity, body, body part, bony labyrinth, bowl, branchial arch, branchial cleft, bridge, building, building complex, bulb, caliculus, calycle, calyculus, capsule, cardcastle, cardhouse, carina, cartilaginous structure, catchment, cauda, cavity, cavum, centromere, chiasm, chiasma, cingulum, class structure, cognition, coil, colonnade, column, complex, composition, computer architecture, concha, configuration, constellation, constitution, convolution, coordinate, corner, cross, cytoarchitectonics, cytoarchitecture, deathtrap, decussation, defence, defense, defensive structure, divider, door, edifice, entablature, erection, establishment, fabric, feudal system, feudalism, filament, filum, floor, fold, foot, form, form of government, foundation, fountain, framework, fundament, fundus, funiculus, germ, gill arch, gill bar, gill cleft, gill slit, glans, groundwork, gyrus, hangar, head, helix, hill, house of cards, housing, hull, impediment, impedimenta, infrastructure, infundibulum, interstice, jungle gym, kinetochore, knowledge, lacrimal apparatus, lamination, landing, landing place, landmark, layer, level, limbus, living accommodations, lodging, lookout, lookout station, makeup, masonry, matriarchate, matriarchy, membranous labyrinth, memorial, meritocracy, monument, morphology, mound, neural structure, noesis, nucleolar organiser, nucleolar organizer, nucleolus organiser, nucleolus organizer, observation tower, observatory, obstructer, obstruction, obstructor, offset, organisation, organise, organization, organize, osseous labyrinth, pad, partition, passage, passageway, patriarchate, patriarchy, pattern, peristome, phrase structure, pillar, plate, plate, platform, plexus, plica, political system, porch, post and lintel, prefab, projection, public works, quoin, radicle, reconstitute, repair shed, restructure, rete, rib, root, segregation, sentence structure, set back, setoff, shape, shelter, shoebox, sign, signboard, society, sound structure, span, spiral, stadium, storey, story, structural member, substructure, substructure, syllable structure, syntax, syrinx, system, system, tooth, tooth root, tube, tube-shaped structure, understructure, uvea, valve, vascular structure, volute, weapons platform, whorl, word structure

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Struc"ture\, n. [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. [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}.
 
Dream Dictionary
 
 Definition: Seeing Asian-style structures in your dream, represents feelings that are foreign to you, particularly if you are not of Asian descent.
 



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