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Structure n.

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."

Manner of building; form; make; construction. "Want of insight into the structure and constitution of the terraqueous globe."

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."

(Biol.) 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.

That which is built; a building; esp., a building of some size or magnificence; an edifice. "There stands a structure of majestic frame."

Columnar structure. See under Columnar.

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Etymology of 'Structure'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Structure" Quotes from Famous Books

... Liberty which alone might rival in height the beautiful and simple shaft which we have erected to the fame of the Father of the Country. I can fancy each generation bringing its inscription, which should recite its own contribution to the great structure of which the column should ...

— Public Speaking • Irvah Lester Winter

... hollow. Howl, hovel. Hunkered, crouched. Hypothec, lit. in Scots law the furnishings of a house, and formerly the produce and stock of a farm hypothecated by law to the landlord as security for rent; colloquially "the whole structure," "the ...

— Weir of Hermiston • Robert Louis Stevenson

... meekness? You can obtain it only through endurance. Would you have faith? You must meet and overcome many obstacles. God puts in us latent qualities of good, but these can be brought to view in the solid structure of Christian character only by long and continued chiseling. "Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you" (1 Pet. 4: 12). "Which is to try you"—did you ever notice that? It does not say which ...

— Heart Talks • Charles Wesley Naylor

... philosophy of nature may be said to be the exhibition of nature as the progress of intelligence toward consciousness and personality. Nature is the ego in evolution, personality in the making. All natural objects are visible analogues and counterparts of mind. The intelligence which their structure reveals, men had interpreted as residing in the mind of a maker of the world. Nature had been spoken of as if it were a watch. God was its great artificer. No one asserted that its intelligence and power of development lay within itself. On the contrary, ...

— Edward Caldwell Moore - Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant • Edward Moore

... that a man in the look-out place in the top of the structure was waving a welcome to us, at which we waved back, and then the bo'sun bade me haste and write a note to know whether it seemed to them likely that they might be able to heave the ship clear of the weed, and this I did, greatly ...

— The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" • William Hope Hodgson

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