structure
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From French structure, from Latin structura (“a fitting together, adjustment, building, erection, a building, edifice, structure”), from struere, past participle structus (“pile up, arrange, assemble, build”). Compare construct, instruct, destroy, etc.
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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.
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- (cohesive whole built up of distinct parts): formation
- (underlying shape of a solid): formation
- (overall form or organization of something): makeup, configuration
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[edit] Translations
cohesive whole built up of distinct parts
underlying shape of a solid
overall form or organization of something
set of rules defining behaviour
(computing) several pieces of data treated as a unit
(fishing) underwater terrain or objects
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[edit] Verb
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.
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(transitive) to give structure to; to arrange
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[edit] French
[edit] Etymology
From Latin structura
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /stʁyktyʁ/, X-SAMPA: /stRyktyR/
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Audio (file) - Rhymes: -yʁ
- Homophone: structures
[edit] 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)
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[edit] Derived terms
- infrastructure
- structural
- structuralisme
- structuraliste
- structurant
- structuration
- structurer
- structuration
- structurel
- structurellement
- substructure
- superstructure
[edit] References
- "structure" in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
[edit] Latin
[edit] Participle
structūre
- vocative masculine singular of structūrus
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