structure
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(verb) give a structure to; "I need to structure my days" |
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Related Words: coordinate, organise, organize, restructure |
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(noun) a thing constructed; a complex construction or entity; "the structure consisted of a series of arches"; "she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons" |
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Synonyms: construction |
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Related Words: altar, arcade, arch, area, arena, arrangement, artefact, artifact, balance, balcony, bascule, base, boarding, body, bowl, bridge, building, building complex, cardcastle, cardhouse, catchment, coil, colonnade, column, complex, corner, counterbalance, cross, deathtrap, defence, defense, defensive structure, divider, edifice, entablature, equilibrium, equipoise, erection, establishment, floor, fountain, helix, hill, house of cards, housing, hull, impediment, impedimenta, infrastructure, landing, landing place, level, lodging, lookout, lookout station, masonry, memorial, monument, mound, observation tower, observatory, obstruction, offset, partition, pillar, platform, porch, post and lintel, prefab, projection, protuberance, public works, quoin, set back, setoff, shelter, shipway, shoebox, sign, signboard, slipway, span, spiral, stadium, storey, story, superstructure, supporting structure, tower, transept, trestlework, vaulting, volute, ways, weapons platform, wellhead, whorl, wind tunnel |
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(noun) the manner of construction of something and the disposition of its parts; "artists must study the structure of the human body"; "the architecture of a computer's system software" |
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Synonyms: architecture |
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Related Words: composition, computer architecture, constitution, cytoarchitectonics, cytoarchitecture, fabric, framework, makeup |
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(noun) a particular complex anatomical structure; "he has good bone structure" |
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Synonyms: anatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part |
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Related Words: alveolar bed, apodeme, aster, ball, blade, bodily cavity, body part, bony labyrinth, branchial arch, branchial cleft, bridge, bulb, caliculus, calycle, calyculus, capsule, carina, cartilaginous structure, cauda, cavity, cavum, centromere, chiasm, chiasma, cingulum, claustrum, concha, convolution, cornu, corona, costa, earlobe, filament, filum, fold, frame, gill arch, gill bar, gill cleft, gill slit, glans, gyrus, horny structure, interstice, layer, limbus, membranous labyrinth, neural structure, osseous labyrinth, pad, passage, passageway, peristome, plate, plexus, plica, radicle, rib, root, rotator cuff, skeletal structure, skeleton, spermatic cord, syrinx, tooth, tooth root, tube, tube-shaped structure, uvea, valve, vascular structure |
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(noun) the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations; "his lectures have no structure" |
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Related Words: arrangement, cognition, configuration, constellation, form, knowledge, morphology, organisation, organization, pattern, phrase structure, sentence structure, shape, sound structure, syllable structure, syntax, system, word structure |
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(noun) the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships; "the social organization of England and America is very different"; "sociologists have studied the changing structure of the family" |
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Synonyms: social organization, social structure, social system |
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Related Words: class structure, feudal system, feudalism, matriarchate, matriarchy, meritocracy, patriarchate, patriarchy, segregation, system |
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