01 n. The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.
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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.
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Manner of building; form; make; construction.“Want of insight into the structure and constitution of the terraqueous globe.” — Woodward.
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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.
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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.(Biol.)
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That which is built; a building; esp., a building of some size or magnificence; an edifice.“There stands a structure of majestic frame.” — Pope.
Phrases & compounds
Columnar structure —
See under Columnar.