Structure Definition
strŭkchər
structured, structures, structuring
noun
structures
Manner of building, constructing, or organizing.
Webster's New World
Something made up of a number of parts that are held or put together in a particular way.
Hierarchical social structure.
American Heritage
The way in which parts are arranged or put together to form a whole; makeup.
Triangular in structure.
American Heritage
Something built or constructed, as a building or dam.
Webster's New World
The arrangement or interrelation of all the parts of a whole; manner of organization or construction.
The structure of the atom, the structure of society.
Webster's New World
verb
structured, structures, structuring
To put together systematically; construct; organize.
Webster's New World
To give form or arrangement to.
Structure a curriculum; structure one's day.
American Heritage
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.
Wiktionary
Origin of Structure
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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.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English the process of building from Latin strūctūra from strūctus past participle of struere to construct ster-2 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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