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English
Etymology
< French structure < Latin structura (“a fitting together, adjustment, building, erection, a building, edifice, structure”) < struere, past participle structus (“pile up, arrange, assemble, build”). Compare construct, instruct, destroy, etc.
Pronunciation
Noun
structure (plural structures)
- A cohesive whole built up of distinct parts.
- The birds had built an amazing structure out of sticks and various discarded items.
- The underlying shape of a solid.
- He studied the structure of her face.
- The overall form or organization of something.
- The structure of a sentence.
- The structure of the society was still a mystery.
- A set of rules defining behaviour.
- For some, the structure of school life was oppressive.
- (computing) Several pieces of data treated as a unit.
- This structure contains both date and timezone information.
- (fishing, uncountable) Underwater terrain or objects (such as a dead tree or a submerged car) that tend to attract fish
- There's lots of structure to be fished along the west shore of the lake; the impoundment submerged a town there when it was built.
- A body, such as a political party, with a cohesive purpose or outlook.
- The South African leader went off to consult with the structures.
- (logic) A set along with a collection of finitary functions and relations.
Synonyms
- (cohesive whole built up of distinct parts): formation
- (underlying shape of a solid): formation
- (overall form or organization of something): makeup, configuration
Derived terms
- antistructure
Verb
to structure (third-person singular simple present structures, present participle structuring, simple past and past participle structured)
- (transitive) To give structure to; to arrange.
- I'm trying to structure my time better so I'm not always late.
- I've structured the deal to limit the amount of money we can lose.
Translations
(transitive) to give structure to; to arrange
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Related terms
French
Etymology
From Latin structura
Pronunciation
- IPA: /stʁyktyʁ/, X-SAMPA: /stRyktyR/
- Rhymes: -yʁ
- Homophones: structures
Noun
structure f. (plural structures)
- structure
- Le plain-chant est la paraphrase aérienne et mouvante de l'immobile structure des cathédrales. (Huysmans, En route, 1895)
Synonyms
- agencement
- disposition
- ordre
- organisation
Antonyms
Derived terms
- infrastructure
- structural
- structuralisme
- structuraliste
- structurant
- structuration
- structurer
- déstructurer
- restructurer
- structuration
- structurel
- structurellement
- substructure
- superstructure
References
- "structure" in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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