英语词汇“structure”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	structure
释义	struc·ture I. \ˈstrəkchə(r), -ksh-\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English, from Latin structura, from structus (past participle of struere to pile up, arrange, build) + -ura -ure; akin to Latin strues heap, sternere to spread out, throw down — more at strew 1. : the action of building : construction 2. a. : something constructed or built < a laboratory housed in a temporary wooden structure > < the dam is a massive structure > < demolish any building, highway, road, railroad, excavation, or other structure — T.W.Arnold > < a structure of posts or stakes across a stream — F.W.Bradley > < structures experimented with …: oxygen-pressure suits, oxygen-pressure balloon gondolas and pressure cabin airplanes — H.G.Armstrong > < all vegetable fibrous structures felted from a water suspension on a wire screen — Paper & Paperboard > especially : a building of imposing size : edifice < the civic auditorium … is the city's most important public structure — American Guide Series: Michigan > b. : something made up of more or less interdependent elements or parts : something having a definite or fixed pattern of organization < leaves and other complex plant structures > < a glandular structure at the base of the brain > < light provided by a fluorescent structure > < collapse the delicate, incomplete structure of agreement — Kenneth Love > < the Nazi structure of falsified facts and perverted history — Alfred Frankfurter > < any object which is in some sense an organized whole is said to have, or to be characterized by, structure — W.C.Clement > < the political and institutional structure of the Commonwealth has been built, and continues to develop, round this living core of tradition and culture — H.D.Hall > < events, or material objects, whose mutual spatial relationships are regarded as constant, constitute a structure — L.A.White > 3. : the manner of construction : the way in which the parts of something are put together or organized : form, makeup < a rambling country house, basically Gothic in plan, structure, and mass — H.S.Morrison > < structure means the ways in which the stars are organized into clusters and other multiple systems — G.W.Gray b. 1886 > < primitive societies are … pretty rigid and uniform in structure — J.D.Adams > < the structure of a novel > 4. : the arrangement of particles or parts in a substance or body < the structure of soil > < the structure of a plant > < the structure of an animal > as a. : the arrangement and mode of union of the atoms in a molecule — compare constitution 4 b. : the attitude and relative positions of rock masses consequent upon deformative processes (as folding, faulting, and igneous intrusion) < an anticlinal structure > < a basin-and-range structure > < an alpine structure > c. : the arrangement of a rock mass with respect to the larger features (as jointing, columnar and platy parting, bedding) — compare texture 5. : the interrelation of parts as dominated by the general character of the whole < economic structure > < financial structure > < personality structure > < political structure > < symphonic structure > < tax structure > — see social structure 6. : the elements or parts of an entity or the position of such elements or parts in their external relationships to each other: as a. (1) : the components of a language (as phonemes, morphemes) and the way in which they are related — compare phonemics, morphophonemics, morphology, syntax (2) : the finite system of such components and their relations b. (1) : the composition of conscious experience with its elements and their combinations (2) : gestalt (3) : the anatomical basis of behavior consisting especially of nerve and muscle tissue 7. : the element that is common to all true interpretations of a logical or mathematical calculus II. verb (structured ; structured ; structuring \-kchər, -ksh(ə)r+-ing\ ; structures) *transitive verb* 1. : to form into an organized structure : build, organize < the author has structured his book as a simple chronology — E.B.Pettet > < this book succeeds in structuring an admirable vantage point — J.G.Brin > < the male in the old-style mammal was largely structured for aggressive competition — Weston La Barre > < the way in which our collegiate education is structured — E.A.Walker > as a. (1) : structuralize (2) : to put into a meaningful frame of reference < a theory to structure empirical research > < the part of television in structuring public events > b. : to establish the relationship between components of: as (1) : to define the psychological relationships in < structure a situation > < structure the perceptual field > (2) : to formalize the role of (as a psychotherapist or a patient) (3) : to set up the rules or the agenda to be followed in (as an interview or a test) with respect to interpersonal conduct 2. : to assign (a linguistic element) to a function or a relation within a system *intransitive verb* : to function or become related — used of a linguistic element
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