Word Direct Answers

What does "structure" mean?

Structure: Manner of building; form; make; construction. Want of insight into the structure and constitution of the terraqueous globe. Woodward.

Additional senses

  1. 2.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. It [basalt] has often a prismatic structure. Dana.
  2. 3.(Biol.) 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.
  3. 4.That which is built; a building; esp., a building of some size or magnificence; an edifice. There stands a structure of majestic frame. Pope. Columnar structure. See under Columnar.

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