Category:Structure

Struc"ture, n. Etym: [l. structura, from struere, structum, to Arrange, build, construct; perhaps akin to e. strew: cf. F. Structure. Cf. Construe, destroy, instrument, obstruct.]

1. The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; Construction. [r.] His son builds on, and never is content till the last farthing is in Structure spent. J. Dryden, jr.

2. Manner of building; form; make; construction. Want of insight into the structure and constitution of the Terraqueous globe. Woodward.

3. 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.

4. (biol.)

Defn: 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.

5. 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.