1.  structure(n = noun.artifact) construction - a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts; "the structure consisted of a series of arches"; "she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons"
is a kind of artefact, artifact
has parts: base, foot, foundation, fundament, groundwork, substructure, understructure, plate, structural member
has particulars: airdock, hangar, repair shed, altar, arcade, colonnade, arch, area, balcony, balcony, bascule, boarding, body, bridge, span, building, edifice, building complex, complex, catchment, coil, helix, spiral, volute, whorl, colonnade, column, pillar, corner, quoin, cross, deathtrap, defence, defense, defensive structure, door, entablature, erection, establishment, false bottom, floor, level, storey, story, fountain, guide, card-house, cardcastle, cardhouse, house of cards, housing, living accommodations, lodging, hull, jungle gym, lamination, landing, landing place, lookout, lookout station, observation tower, observatory, masonry, memorial, monument, hill, mound, impediment, impedimenta, obstructer, obstruction, obstructor, divider, partition, platform, weapons platform, porch, post and lintel, prefab, projection, public works, sail, offset, set-back, setoff, shelter, shoebox, sign, signboard, arena, bowl, sports stadium, stadium, superstructure, supporting structure, tower, transept, trestlework, vaulting, shipway, slipway, ways, wellhead, wind tunnel, honeycomb, balance, counterbalance, equilibrium, equipoise

2.  structure(n = noun.attribute) - 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"
is a kind of composition, constitution, make-up, makeup, physical composition
has particulars: infrastructure, substructure, architecture, computer architecture, cytoarchitectonics, cytoarchitecture, fabric, framework
Derived form verb structure₁

3.  structure(n = noun.cognition) - the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations; "his lectures have no structure"
is a kind of cognition, knowledge, noesis
has particulars: arrangement, organisation, organization, system, form, pattern, shape, phrase structure, sentence structure, syntax, morphology, sound structure, syllable structure, word structure
Derived form verb structure₁

4.  structure(n = noun.body) anatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part - a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing; "he has good bone structure"
is a kind of body part
has particulars: layer, apodeme, caliculus, calycle, calyculus, tooth, pad, branchial cleft, gill cleft, gill slit, branchial arch, gill arch, gill bar, peristome, syrinx, bulb, carina, cauda, chiasm, chiasma, decussation, cingulum, concha, filament, filum, germ, infundibulum, interstice, landmark, limbus, rib, blade, radicle, plexus, rete, tube, tube-shaped structure, passage, passageway, fundus, funiculus, head, bodily cavity, cavity, cavum, root, tooth root, capsule, uvea, lens nucleus, nucleus, membranous labyrinth, bony labyrinth, osseous labyrinth, glans, alveolar bed, valve, vascular structure, lacrimal apparatus, cytoskeleton, nucleolar organiser, nucleolar organizer, nucleolus organiser, nucleolus organizer, centromere, kinetochore, aster, neural structure, fold, plica, convolution, gyrus, cartilaginous structure, ball, plate, horny structure, unguis, skeletal structure, costa, head, bridge, rotator cuff, cornu, corona, receptor, zona, zone

5.  structure(n = noun.group) social organisation, social organization, social structure, social system - 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"
is a kind of scheme, system
is a member of society
has particulars: feudal system, feudalism, patriarchate, patriarchy, matriarchate, matriarchy, meritocracy, pluralism, class structure, segregation, separatism

   structure(v = verb.change) - give a structure to; "I need to structure my days"
is one way to coordinate, organise, organize
Derived forms noun structure₂, noun structure₃
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

1.  The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction. [1913 Webster]
"His son builds on, and never is content
Till the last farthing is in structure spent." [1913 Webster]

2.  Manner of building; form; make; construction. [1913 Webster]
"Want of insight into the structure and constitution of the terraqueous globe." [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]
"It [basalt] has often a prismatic structure." [1913 Webster]

4.  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. [1913 Webster]

5.  That which is built; a building; esp., a building of some size or magnificence; an edifice. [1913 Webster]
"There stands a structure of majestic frame." [1913 Webster]

structure, n. & v.
--n.
1 a a whole constructed unit, esp. a building. b the way in which a building etc. is constructed (has a flimsy structure).
2 a set of interconnecting parts of any complex thing; a framework (the structure of a sentence; a new wages structure).
--v.tr. give structure to; organize; frame.

Derivative:
structured adj. (also in comb.). structureless adj.

Etymology:
ME f. OF structure or L structura f. struere struct- build

N  production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture, building, architecture, erection, edification, coinage, diaster, organization, nisus formativus, putting together, establishment, workmanship, performance, achievement, flowering, fructification, inflorescence, bringing forth, parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics, geniture, gestation, assimilation, evolution, development, growth, entelechy, fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation, fecundation, impregnation, albumen, spontaneous generation, archegenesis, archebiosis, biogenesis, abiogenesis, digenesis, dysmerogenesis, eumerogenesis, heterogenesis, oogenesis, merogenesis, metogenesis, monogenesis, parthenogenesis, homogenesis, xenogenesis, authorship, publication, works, opus, oeuvre, biogeny, dissogeny, xenogeny, tocogony, vacuolization, edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit, produced, producing, productive of, prolific, creative, formative, genetic, genial, genital, pregnant, enceinte, big with, fraught with, in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of, puerperal, puerperous, digenetic, heterogenetic, oogenetic, xenogenetic, ectogenous, gamic, haematobious, sporogenous, sporophorous, architectonic, ex nihilo nihil, fiat lux, materiam superabat opus, nemo dat quod non habet.

N  form, figure, shape, conformation, configuration, make, formation, frame, construction, cut, set, build, trim, cut of one's jib, stamp, type, cast, mold, fashion, contour, structure, plasmature, feature, lineament, turn, phase, posture, attitude, pose, morphism, isomorphism, forming, formation, figuration, efformation, sculpture, plasmation, formed, plastic, fictile, formative, fluid, plasmic, isomorphous, pleomorphic, protean, changeable.

N  organization, organized world, organized nature, living nature, animated nature, living beings, organic remains, fossils, protoplasm, cytoplasm, protein, albumen, structure, organization, organism, biology, natural history, organic chemistry, anatomy, physiology, zoology, botany, microbiology, virology, bacteriology, mycology, naturalist, archegenesis, antherozoid, bioplasm, biotaxy, chromosome, dysmeromorph, ecology, oecology, erythroblast, gametangium, gamete, germinal matter, invagination, isogamy, oogamy, karyaster, macrogamete, microgamete, metabolism, anabolism, catabolism, metaplasm, ontogeny, ovary, ovum, oxidation, phylogeny, polymorphism, protozoa, spermary, spermatozoon, trophoplasm, vacuole, vertebration, zoogloea, zygote, Darwinism, neo-Darwinism, Lamarkism, neoLamarkism, Weismannism, morphology, taxonomy, organic, organized, karyoplasmic, unsegmentic, vacuolar, zoogloeic, zoogloeoid.

anatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, cartilaginous structure, class structure, data structure, defensive structure, fine structure, hierarchical data structure, hierarchical structure, horny structure, megalithic structure, muscular structure, neural structure, organic structure, phrase structure, physical structure, plant structure, power structure, reproductive structure, sentence structure, skeletal structure, social structure, sound structure, supporting structure, syllable structure, tube-shaped structure, vascular structure, word structure