structure
Definitions
noun
A cohesive whole built up of distinct parts.
The birds had built an amazing structure out of sticks and various discarded items.
The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement.
The underlying shape of a solid.
He studied the structure of her face.
The overall form or organization of something.
The structure of a sentence.
The structure of the society was still a mystery.
A set of rules defining behaviour.
For some, the structure of school life was oppressive.
Several pieces of data treated as a unit.
This structure contains both date and timezone information.
verb
To give structure to; to arrange.
I'm trying to structure my time better so I'm not always late.
I've structured the deal to limit the amount of money we can lose.