structure

Noun
  1. A thing constructed;
    A complex entity constructed of many parts (synset 104348764)
    "the structure consisted of a series of arches"; "she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons"
    is a type of: artefact, artifact - a man-made object taken as a whole
    subtypes:
    • airdock, hangar, repair shed - a large structure at an airport where aircraft can be stored and maintained
    • altar - a raised structure on which gifts or sacrifices to a god are made
    • arcade, colonnade - a structure composed of a series of arches supported by columns
    • arch - (architecture) a masonry construction (usually curved) for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it
    • area - a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function
    • balcony - a platform projecting from the wall of a building and surrounded by a balustrade or railing or parapet
    • balcony - an upper floor projecting from the rear over the main floor in an auditorium
    • bascule - a structure or device in which one end is counterbalanced by the other (on the principle of the seesaw)
    • boarding - a structure of boards
    • body - the external structure of a vehicle
    • bridge, span - a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.
    • building, edifice - a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place
    • building complex, complex - a whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures
    • catchment - a structure in which water is collected (especially a natural drainage area)
    • coil, helix, spiral, volute, whorl - a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops
    • colonnade - structure consisting of a row of evenly spaced columns
    • column, pillar - a vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument)
    • corner, quoin - (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone
    • cross - a wooden structure consisting of an upright post with a transverse piece
    • deathtrap - any structure that is very unsafe; where people are likely to be killed
    • defence, defense, defensive structure - a structure used to defend against attack
    • door - a structure where people live or work (usually ordered along a street or road)
    • entablature - (architecture) the structure consisting of the part of a classical temple above the columns between a capital and the roof
    • erection - a structure that has been erected
    • establishment - a public or private structure (business or governmental or educational) including buildings and equipment for business or residence
    • false bottom - a horizontal structure that partitions a ship or box (especially one built close to the actual bottom)
    • floor, level, storey, story - a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale
    • fountain - a structure from which an artificially produced jet of water arises
    • guide - a structure or marking that serves to direct the motion or positioning of something
    • card-house, cardcastle, cardhouse, house of cards - an unstable construction with playing cards
    • housing, living accommodations, lodging - structures collectively in which people are housed
    • hull - the frame or body of ship
    • jungle gym - a structure of vertical and horizontal rods where children can climb and play
    • lamination - a layered structure
    • landing, landing place - structure providing a place where boats can land people or goods
    • lookout, lookout station, observation tower, observatory - a structure commanding a wide view of its surroundings
    • masonry - structure built of stone or brick by a mason
    • memorial, monument - a structure erected to commemorate persons or events
    • hill, mound - structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones
    • impediment, impedimenta, obstructer, obstruction, obstructor - any structure that makes progress difficult
    • divider, partition - a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another)
    • platform, weapons platform - any military structure or vehicle bearing weapons
    • porch - a structure attached to the exterior of a building often forming a covered entrance
    • post and lintel - a structure consisting of vertical beams (posts) supporting a horizontal beam (lintel)
    • prefab - a prefabricated structure
    • projection - any structure that branches out from a central support
    • public works - structures (such as highways or schools or bridges or docks) constructed at government expense for public use
    • sail - any structure that resembles a sail
    • offset, set-back, setoff - structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly
    • shelter - a structure that provides privacy and protection from danger
    • shoebox - a structure resembling a shoebox (as a rectangular building or a cramped room or compartment)
    • sign, signboard - structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted
    • arena, bowl, sports stadium, stadium - a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments
    • superstructure - structure consisting of the part of a ship above the main deck
    • supporting structure - a structure that serves to support something
    • tower - a structure taller than its diameter; can stand alone or be attached to a larger building
    • transept - structure forming the transverse part of a cruciform church; crosses the nave at right angles
    • trestlework - a supporting structure composed of a system of connected trestles; for a bridge or pier or scaffold e.g.
    • vaulting - (architecture) a vaulted structure
    • shipway, slipway, ways - structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired
    • wellhead - a structure built over a well
    • wind tunnel - a structure resembling a tunnel where air is blown at known velocities for testing parts of aircraft
    • honeycomb - a structure of small hexagonal cells constructed from beeswax by bees and used to store honey and larvae
    • balance, counterbalance, equilibrium, equipoise - equality of distribution
    has:
    same as: construction
  2. The manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts (synset 104939142)
    "artists must study the structure of the human body"; "the structure of the benzene molecule"
    is a type of: composition, constitution, make-up, makeup, physical composition - the way in which someone or something is composed
    subtypes:
  3. The complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations (synset 105734290)
    "his lectures have no structure"
    is a type of: cognition, knowledge, noesis - the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning
    subtypes:
  4. A particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement (synset 105232895)
    "he has good bone structure"
    is a type of: body part - any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity
    subtypes:
    • layer - thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells
    • apodeme - ridge-like ingrowth of the exoskeleton of an arthropod that supports internal organs and provides attachment points for muscles
    • caliculus, calycle, calyculus - a small cup-shaped structure (as a taste bud or optic cup or cavity of a coral containing a polyp)
    • tooth - toothlike structure in invertebrates found in the mouth or alimentary canal or on a shell
    • pad - the fleshy cushion-like underside of an animal's foot or of a human's finger
    • branchial cleft, gill cleft, gill slit - one of a series of slit openings in the pharynxes of fishes and aquatic amphibians through which water passes
    • branchial arch, gill arch, gill bar - one of the bony or cartilaginous arches on each side of the pharynx that support the gills of fishes and aquatic amphibians
    • peristome - region around the mouth in various invertebrates
    • syrinx - the vocal organ of a bird
    • bulb - a rounded dilation or expansion in a canal or vessel or organ
    • carina - any of various keel-shaped structures or ridges such as that on the breastbone of a bird or that formed by the fused petals of a pea blossom
    • cauda - any taillike structure
    • chiasm, chiasma, decussation - an intersection or crossing of two tracts in the form of the letter X
    • cingulum - (anatomy) an encircling structure (as the ridge around the base of a tooth)
    • concha - (anatomy) a structure that resembles a shell in shape
    • filament, filum - a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells)
    • germ - a small apparently simple structure (as a fertilized egg) from which new tissue can develop into a complete organism
    • infundibulum - any of various funnel-shaped parts of the body (but especially the hypophyseal stalk)
    • interstice - a small structural space between tissues or parts of an organ
    • landmark - an anatomical structure used as a point of origin in locating other anatomical structures (as in surgery) or as point from which measurements can be taken
    • limbus - a border or edge of any of various body parts distinguished by color or structure
    • rib - a riblike supporting or strengthening part of an animal or plant
    • blade - a broad flat body part (as of the shoulder or tongue)
    • radicle - (anatomy) a small structure resembling a rootlet (such as a fibril of a nerve)
    • plexus, rete - a network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels
    • tube, tube-shaped structure - (anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure
    • passage, passageway - a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass
    • fundus - (anatomy) the base of a hollow organ or that part of the organ farthest from its opening
    • funiculus - any of several body structure resembling a cord
    • head - that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves
    • bodily cavity, cavity, cavum - (anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body
    • root - the embedded part of a bodily structure such as a tooth, nail, or hair
    • capsule - a structure that encloses a body part
    • uvea - the part of the eye that contains the iris and ciliary body and choroid
    • lens nucleus, nucleus - the central structure of the lens that is surrounded by the cortex
    • membranous labyrinth - the sensory structures of the inner ear including the labyrinthine receptors and the cochlea; contained within the bony labyrinth
    • bony labyrinth, osseous labyrinth - cavity in the petrous part of the temporal bone that contains the membranous labyrinth
    • glans - a small rounded structure; especially that at the end of the penis or clitoris
    • alveolar bed - lung tissue densely packed with alveoli
    • valve - a structure in a hollow organ (like the heart) with a flap to insure one-way flow of fluid through it
    • vascular structure - a structure composed of or provided with blood vessels
    • lacrimal apparatus - the structures that secrete and drain tears from the eye
    • cytoskeleton - a microscopic network of actin filaments and microtubules in the cytoplasm of many living cells that gives the cell shape and coherence
    • nucleolar organiser, nucleolar organizer, nucleolus organiser, nucleolus organizer - the particular part of a chromosome that is associated with a nucleolus after nuclear division
    • centromere, kinetochore - a specialized condensed region of each chromosome that appears during mitosis where the chromatids are held together to form an X shape
    • aster - star-shaped structure formed in the cytoplasm of a cell having fibers like rays that surround the centrosome during mitosis
    • neural structure - a structure that is part of the nervous system
    • fold, plica - a folded part (as in skin or muscle)
    • convolution, gyrus - a convex fold or elevation in the surface of the brain
    • cartilaginous structure - body structure given shape by cartilage
    • ball - a more or less rounded anatomical body or mass
    • plate - any flat platelike body structure or part
    • horny structure, unguis - any rigid body structure composed primarily of keratin
    • skeletal structure - any structure created by the skeleton of an organism
    • costa - a riblike part of a plant or animal (such as a middle rib of a leaf or a thickened vein of an insect wing)
    • head - the rounded end of a bone that fits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint
    • bridge - the hard ridge that forms the upper part of the nose
    • rotator cuff - a supporting structure of the shoulder consisting of the muscles and tendons that attach the arm to the shoulder joint and enable the arm to move
    • cornu - (anatomy) any structure that resembles a horn in shape
    • corona - (anatomy) any structure that resembles a crown in shape
    • receptor - a cellular structure that is postulated to exist in order to mediate between a chemical agent that acts on nervous tissue and the physiological response
    • zona, zone - (anatomy) any encircling or beltlike structure
    same as: anatomical structure, bodily structure, body structure, complex body part
  5. The people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships (synset 108395550)
    "the social organization of England and America is very different"; "sociologists have studied the changing structure of the family"
    is a type of: scheme, system - a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole
    subtypes:
    • feudal system, feudalism - the social system that developed in Europe in the 8th century; vassals were protected by lords who they had to serve in war
    • patriarchate, patriarchy - a form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line
    • matriarchate, matriarchy - a form of social organization in which a female is the family head and title is traced through the female line
    • meritocracy - a form of social system in which power goes to those with superior intellects
    • pluralism - a social organization in which diversity of racial or religious or ethnic or cultural groups is tolerated
    • class structure - the organization of classes within a society
    • segregation, separatism - a social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups
    member holonym: form of government, political system - the members of a social organization who are in power
    belongs to: society - an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization
    same as: social organisation, social organization, social structure, social system
Verb
  1. Give a structure to (synset 200405129)
    "I need to structure my days"
    is a type of: coordinate, organise, organize - bring order and organization to
    subtypes: reconstitute, restructure - construct or form anew or provide with a new structure

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