English noun: structure |
1. | structure (artifact) a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts |
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| Samples | The structure consisted of a series of arches. She wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons.
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| Synonyms | construction |
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| Broader (hypernym) | artefact, artifact |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | airdock, altar, arcade, arch, area, arena, balance, balcony, balcony, bascule, boarding, body, bowl, bridge, building, building complex, card-house, cardcastle, cardhouse, catchment, coil, colonnade, colonnade, column, complex, corner, counterbalance, cross, deathtrap, defence, defense, defensive structure, divider, door, edifice, entablature, equilibrium, equipoise, erection, establishment, false bottom, floor, fountain, guide, hangar, helix, hill, honeycomb, house of cards, housing, hull, impediment, impedimenta, jungle gym, lamination, landing, landing place, level, living accommodations, lodging, lookout, lookout station, masonry, memorial, monument, mound, observation tower, observatory, obstructer, obstruction, obstructor, offset, partition, pillar, platform, porch, post and lintel, prefab, projection, public works, quoin, repair shed, sail, set-back, setoff, shelter, shipway, shoebox, sign, signboard, slipway, span, spiral, sports stadium, stadium, storey, story, superstructure, supporting structure, tower, transept, trestlework, vaulting, volute, ways, weapons platform, wellhead, whorl, wind tunnel |
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| Part holonym | base, foot, foundation, fundament, groundwork, plate, structural member, substructure, understructure |
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2. | structure (attribute) the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts |
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| Samples | Artists must study the structure of the human body. The structure of the benzene molecule.
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| Broader (hypernym) | composition, constitution, make-up, makeup, physical composition |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | architecture, computer architecture, cytoarchitectonics, cytoarchitecture, fabric, framework, infrastructure, substructure |
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3. | structure (cognition) the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations |
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| Samples | His lectures have no structure.
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| Broader (hypernym) | cognition, knowledge, noesis |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | arrangement, form, morphology, organisation, organization, pattern, phrase structure, sentence structure, shape, sound structure, syllable structure, syntax, system, word structure |
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4. | structure (body) a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing |
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| Samples | He has good bone structure.
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| Synonyms | anatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part |
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| Broader (hypernym) | body part |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | alveolar bed, apodeme, aster, ball, blade, bodily cavity, bony labyrinth, branchial arch, branchial cleft, bridge, bulb, caliculus, calycle, calyculus, capsule, carina, cartilaginous structure, cauda, cavity, cavum, centromere, chiasm, chiasma, cingulum, concha, convolution, cornu, corona, costa, cytoskeleton, decussation, filament, filum, fold, fundus, funiculus, germ, gill arch, gill bar, gill cleft, gill slit, glans, gyrus, head, head, horny structure, infundibulum, interstice, kinetochore, lacrimal apparatus, landmark, layer, lens nucleus, limbus, membranous labyrinth, neural structure, nucleolar organiser, nucleolar organizer, nucleolus organiser, nucleolus organizer, nucleus, osseous labyrinth, pad, passage, passageway, peristome, plate, plexus, plica, radicle, receptor, rete, rib, root, rotator cuff, skeletal structure, syrinx, tooth, tooth root, tube, tube-shaped structure, unguis, uvea, valve, vascular structure, zona, zone |
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5. | structure (group) the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships |
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| Samples | The social organization of England and America is very different. Sociologists have studied the changing structure of the family.
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| Synonyms | social organisation, social organization, social structure, social system |
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| Broader (hypernym) | scheme, system |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | class structure, feudal system, feudalism, matriarchate, matriarchy, meritocracy, patriarchate, patriarchy, pluralism, segregation, separatism |
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| Member holonym | form of government, political system |
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| Member meronym | society |
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