Word Finder - structure

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A cohesive whole built up of distinct parts.

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The birds had built an amazing structure out of sticks and various discarded items.

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• formation

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The underlying shape of a solid.

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He studied the structure of her face.

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• formation

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The overall form or organization of something.

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The structure of a sentence.

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• configuration
• makeup

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A set of rules defining behaviour.

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For some, the structure of school life was oppressive.

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Several pieces of data treated as a unit.

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This structure contains both date and timezone information.

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Underwater terrain or objects (such as a dead tree or a submerged car) that tend to attract fish

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There's lots of structure to be fished along the west shore of the lake; the impoundment submerged a town there when it was built.

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A body, such as a political party, with a cohesive purpose or outlook.

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The South African leader went off to consult with the structures.

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A set along with a collection of finitary functions and relations.

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To give structure to; to arrange.

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I'm trying to structure my time better so I'm not always late.

A small door in the stone structure opened.

He formalized the structure of medical inquiry as an independent science.

From what I've learned his entire brain structure is distorted.

The structure of proteins enables scientists to understand the function they perform.

As Dean neared the structure, a figure emerged from the building.

A structure loomed darkly against the lighter horizon.

The structure was just under seventy feet long and about twelve feet high; said to be the height designed to accommodate a wagon fully loaded with hay.

She occupied the largest suite in the structure, seven spacious rooms on the top floor.

He passed the recently restored Beaumont Hotel, a beautiful structure that after several decades of disuse and deterioration had finally been returned to its past glory.

The children needed structure and direction in their lives.

On the farther side of the eastern ravine stands a smaller but very well proportioned structure, the church of St Eugenius, the patron saint of Trebizond, now the Yeni Djuma djami, or New Friday mosque.

I'm not easy to live with, and the structure is good for me.

The Teatro Farnese, a remarkable wooden structure erected in1618-1619from Aleotti d'Argenta's designs, and capable of containing 4500 persons, is also in this palace.

Her mother and father-in-law sat in front of the crushed structure, hunched over while their sobs reaching her ears.

I will begin by describing the structure of the school system in the Republic of Ireland.

Nearly seventy-five Colorado winters rusting away at the structure did not breed confidence.

The joists are covered with a waterproof material such as asphalt, lead, zinc or copper, the three last materials being usually laid upon boarding, which stiffens the structure and forms a good surface to fix the weatherproof covering upon.

These nations will play a substantial role in shaping this new English, as they bring grammatical structure, idioms, and nuanced words from their native tongue.

St. Thomas the Apostle Church was a scrubbed-white structure looking like a New England calendar except for its city loca­tion.

Such roofs are not suitable for cold climates, for accumulations of snow might overburden the structure and would also cause the wet to penetrate through any small crevices and under flashings.

The adobe structure was guarded by several more Guardians, none of whom looked like Damian from the distance.

In 1894 and 1895, Fischer, in a remarkable series of papers on the influence of molecular structure upon the action of the enzyme, showed that various species of yeast behave very differently towards solutions of sugars.

At the same time he felt that above his face, above the very middle of it, some strange airy structure was being erected out of slender needles or splinters, to the sound of this whispered music.

The hotel de ville, also by Abadie, is a handsome modern structure, but preserves two towers of the château of the counts of Angouleme, on the site of which it is built.

Eventually he was able to prove that the biological doctrine of omnis cellula ecellula applies to pathological processes as well as to those of normal growth, and in his famous book on Cellular-pathologic, published at Berlin in 1858, he established what Lord Lister described as the "true and fertile doctrine that every morbid structure consists of cells which have been derived from pre-existing cells as a progeny."

Notwithstanding certain points of resemblance in structure and phonetics, Albanian is entirely distinct from the neighbouring languages; in its relation to early Latin and Greek it may be regarded as a co-ordinate member of the Aryan stock.

You have the most beautiful bone structure.

The African elephant is a very different animal from its Asiatic cousin, both as regards structure and habits; and were it not for the existence of intermediate extinct species, might well be regarded as the representative of a distinct genus.

There are numerous modern churches and chapels, many of them very handsome; and the former parish church of St Nicholas remains, a Decorated structure containing a Norman font and a memorial to the great duke of Wellington.

The destruction was visible long before they reached the low adobe structure hidden between the foothills of the Tucson Mountains.

The small cathedral of St Aurea, also an early Renaissance structure, with Gothic windows, is by some ascribed to Meo del Caprina (1430-1501).

The plants show great diversity in vegetative structure.

The Buen, as everyone referred to it, was located in a hundred year old structure previously known as the Scott-Humphries Building, which had remained vacant for over twenty-five years.

Pushing himself away from the book that would reveal nothing he sought, he went to the small, square window overlooking the stone structure of the Sanctuary.

Airy hallways led through the hacienda style structure on either side of her.

The structure of the mouth-parts is different from that seen in any other insects.

As a rule there is no allantoic placenta forming the means of communication between the blood of the parent and the foetus, and when such a structure does occur its development is incomplete.

The five-toed feet are of normal structure, and the rat-like tail is prehensile towards the tip. The female has a small pouch.

In that world some structure was still being erected and did not fall, something was still stretching out, and the candle with its red halo was still burning, and the same shirtlike sphinx lay near the door; but besides all this something creaked, there was a whiff of fresh air, and a new white sphinx appeared, standing at the door.

World Wide Insurance Company was in the heart of Philadelphia, occupying a towering structure that glared down on city hall and a thousand tired buildings, many dating back to the horse-drawn carriage days.

This genus comprises fresh-water polyps of simple structure.

It will be seen that from the biological standpoint there fall under the stricter definition those hereditary modes of behaviour which are analogous to hereditary forms of structure; and that a sharp line of distinction is drawn between the behaviour which is thus rendered definite through heredity, and the behaviour the distinguishing characteristics of which are acquired in the course of individual life.

They will have a two-tier governance structure - a Management Board and a Board of Governors.

Finally, there is the hypothesis that marsupials are the descendants of placentals, in which case, as was suggested by its discoverer, the placenta of the bandicoots would be a true vestigial structure.

The crystals are feebly doubly refracting, and in polarized light exhibit a banded structure parallel to the cube faces.

The oesophagus is often furnished with glandular diverticula, the "glands of Morren," which are often of complex structure through the folding of their walls.

These worms lay cocoons like the Oligochaeta and leeches, and where they depart from the structure of the Oligochaeta agree with that of leeches.

There are two chitinous jaws in the buccal cavity, a dorsal and a ventral, which are of specially complicated structure in Cirrodrilus.

The nephridia are like those of the Oligochaeta in general structure; that is to say, they consist of drain-pipe cells which are placed end to end and are perforated by their duct.

Part of the present structure is believed to date from 1220 and once sheltered William Wallace.