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noun

Structure n.

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."

Manner of building; form; make; construction. "Want of insight into the structure and constitution of the terraqueous globe."

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."

(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.

That which is built; a building; esp., a building of some size or magnificence; an edifice. "There stands a structure of majestic frame."

Columnar structure. See under Columnar.

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Etymology of 'Structure'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Structure" Quotes from Famous Books

... amusing to observe the peculiarity which the consciousness of superior knowledge impressed upon the conversation and personal appearance of this decaying race. Whatever might have been the original conformation of their physical structure, it was sure, by the force of acquired habit, to transform itself into a stiff, erect, consequential, and unbending manner, ludicrously characteristic of an inflated sense of their extraordinary knowledge, and ...

— The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh • William Carleton

... axe and went off, followed by Peterkin, while I took up the piece of newly discovered cloth, and fell to examining its structure. So engrossed was I in this that I was still sitting in the same attitude and ...

— The Coral Island - A Tale Of The Pacific Ocean • R. M. Ballantyne

... old structure's too small, one party or the other will have to be shoved out. The capitalist or the employee. Which will ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... they were ascending a rugged slope, and painfully climbing in and out among huge rocks, whose structure told of their being portions of some lava eruption. Water trickled here and there, overhung by mosses of loose habit and of a dazzling green. Tree ferns arched over the way with their lace-work fronds, and ...

— Fire Island - Being the Adventures of Uncertain Naturalists in an Unknown Track • G. Manville Fenn

... application of reproduction cost in preference to original cost would have been reduced to a war of words; for results obtained by reliance upon either would have been identical. The instability in the price structure, however, presented the courts with a dilemma. If rate-making is attempted at a time of declining prices, valuation on the basis of present or reproduction cost will advantage the consumer or user, and disadvantage the utility. ...

— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin

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