structure
Noun:
- The way in which the parts of a system or object are arranged or organized: "Structure" refers to the organization, framework, or arrangement of interrelated elements in a complex entity.
- A building or other object constructed from several parts: "Structure" can also mean a thing that has been built, especially a large building or a complex physical formation.
Verb:
- To arrange or organize something into a coherent system or pattern: To "structure" something means to give it a definite form, organization, or framework.
Noun:
- The company is planning to change its management structure.
- Geologists study the structure of the Earth's crust.
- The new museum is a magnificent steel and glass structure.
Verb:
- You should structure your essay with a clear introduction and conclusion.
- The course is structured around three main themes.
"Lack of structure": The absence of a clear organization or framework.
- The project failed due to a complete lack of structure.
"Hierarchical structure": An organization arranged in order of rank or grade.
- The military operates with a strict hierarchical structure.
"To impose a structure on": To force an organization or pattern onto something.
- The editor imposed a new structure on the manuscript.
Structural (adj): Relating to the arrangement of and relations between the parts of something.
- The bridge has some structural weaknesses.
Restructure (verb): To organize a company, system, or plan in a new way to make it work more effectively.
- The bank was forced to restructure its debt.
Infrastructure (noun): The basic physical and organizational structures and facilities needed for the operation of a society or enterprise.
- The country is investing in its transportation infrastructure.
- Framework: A basic structure underlying a system, concept, or text.
- Organization: The action of organizing something or the state of being organized.
- Construction: The building of something, typically a large structure.
(Note: "Structure" is not commonly used in phrasal verb constructions. Its meaning is typically conveyed as a standalone verb.)
"Structure and agency": (A sociological term) Refers to the debate over the degree to which human behavior is influenced by social structures versus individual free will.
- The theory explores the relationship between structure and agency.
"Power structure": The hierarchy of authority or influence within a group or society.
- He is analyzing the power structure within the political party.
- 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
- a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing
- he has good bone structure
- the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations
- his lectures have no structure
- the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts
- artists must study the structure of the human body
- the structure of the benzene molecule
- a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts
- the structure consisted of a series of arches
- she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons
- give a structure to
- I need to structure my days