Structure means to purposefully arrange something in a specific way.
(verb)An example of structure is when you arrange furniture deliberately so that everyone sits facing each other.
Structure is a constructed building or a specific arrangement of things or people, especially things that have multiple parts.
(noun)See structure in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
Origin: ME < L structura < structus, pp. of struere, to heap together, arrange: see strew
transitive verb structured, structuring
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See structure in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
Origin:
Origin: Middle English, the process of building
Origin: , from Latin strūctūra
Origin: , from strūctus
Origin: , past participle of struere, to construct; see ster-2 in Indo-European roots
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