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Webster 1913 Edition


Structure

Struc′ture

,
Noun.
[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
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Structure

STRUCTURE

,
Noun.
[L., to set or lay.]
1.
Act of building; practice of erecting buildings.
His son builds on and never is content, till the last farthing is in structure spent.
2.
Manner of building; form; make; construction; as the want of insight into the structure and constitution of the terraqueous globe.
3.
Manner of organization of animals and vegetables, &c.
4.
A building of any kind, but chiefly a building of some size or of magnificence; an edifice. The iron bridge over the Seine in Paris, is a beautiful structure.
There stands a structure of majestic frame.
5.
In mineralogy, the particular arrangement of the integrant particles or molecules of a mineral.

Definition 2024


structuré

structuré

See also: structure

French

Verb

structuré m (feminine singular structurée, masculine plural structurés, feminine plural structurées)

  1. past participle of structurer

Adjective

structuré m (feminine singular structurée, masculine plural structurés, feminine plural structurées)

  1. structured