structure

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

manner of building, constructing, or organizing
something built or constructed, as a building or dam
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
something composed of interrelated parts forming an organism or an organization

Origin: ME < L structura < structus, pp. of struere, to heap together, arrange: see strew

to put together systematically; construct; organize

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See structure in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

Something made up of a number of parts that are held or put together in a particular way: hierarchical social structure.
The way in which parts are arranged or put together to form a whole; makeup: triangular in structure.
The interrelation or arrangement of parts in a complex entity: political structure; plot structure.
Something constructed, such as a building.
Biology
a. The arrangement or formation of the tissues, organs, or other parts of an organism.
b. An organ or other part of an organism.