English > structure: 6 senses > noun 1, artifact| Meaning | A thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts. |
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| Example | "the structure consisted of a series of arches" |
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| Synonym | construction |
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| Parts | foundation, base, fundament, foot, groundwork, substructure, understructure | Lowest support of a structure |
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| plate | structural member consisting of a horizontal beam that provides bearing and anchorage |
| structural member | support that is a constituent part of any structure or building |
| Narrower | airdock, hangar, repair shed | A large structure at an airport where aircraft can be stored and maintained |
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| altar | A raised structure on which gifts or sacrifices to a god are made |
| arcade, colonnade | A structure composed of a series of arches supported by columns |
| arch | (architecture) a masonry construction (usually curved) for spanning an opening and supporting the weight above it |
| area | A part of a structure having some specific characteristic / characteristic or function |
| balance, equilibrium, equipoise, counterbalance | equality of distribution |
| balcony | A platform projecting from the wall of a building and surrounded by a balustrade or railing or parapet |
| balcony | An upper floor projecting from the rear over the main floor in an auditorium |
| bascule | A structure or device in which one end is counterbalanced by the other (on the principle of the seesaw) |
| boarding | A structure of boards / boards |
| body | The external structure of a vehicle |
| bridge, span | A structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc. |
| building, edifice | A structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place |
| building complex, complex | A whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures |
| catchment | A structure in which water is collected (especially a natural drainage area) |
| coil, spiral, volute, whorl, helix | A structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops |
| colonnade | structure consisting of a row of evenly spaced columns |
| column, pillar | A vertical cylindrical structure standing alone and not supporting anything (such as a monument) |
| corner, quoin | (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building |
| cross | A wooden structure consisting of an upright post with a transverse piece |
| deathtrap | Any structure that is very unsafe |
| defensive structure, defense, defence | A structure used to defend against attack |
| door | A structure where people live or work (usually ordered along a street or road) |
| entablature | (architecture) the structure consisting of the part of a classical temple above the columns between a capital and the roof |
| erection | A structure that has been erected |
| establishment | A public or private structure (business or governmental or educational) including buildings and equipment for business or residence |
| false bottom | A horizontal structure that partitions a ship or box (especially one built close to the actual bottom) |
| floor, level, storey, story | A structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale |
| fountain | A structure from which an artificially produced jet of water arises |
| guide | A structure or marking that serves to direct the motion or positioning of something |
| honeycomb | A structure of small hexagonal cells constructed from beeswax by bees and used to store honey and larvae |
| house of cards, cardhouse, card-house, cardcastle | An unstable construction with playing cards |
| housing, lodging, living accommodations | structures collectively in which people are housed |
| hull | The frame or body of ship |
| jungle gym | A structure of vertical and horizontal rods where children can climb and play |
| lamination | A layered structure |
| landing, landing place | structure providing a place where boats can land people or goods |
| lookout, observation tower, lookout station, observatory | A structure commanding a wide view of its surroundings |
| masonry | structure built of stone or brick by a mason |
| memorial, monument | A structure erected to commemorate persons or events |
| mound, hill | structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones |
| obstruction, obstructor, obstructer, impediment, impedimenta | Any structure that makes progress difficult |
| partition, divider | A vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another) |
| platform, weapons platform | Any military structure or vehicle bearing weapons |
| porch | A structure attached to the exterior of a building often forming a covered entrance |
| post and lintel | A structure consisting of vertical beams (posts) supporting a horizontal beam (lintel) |
| prefab | A prefabricated structure |
| projection | Any structure that branches out from a central support |
| public works | structures (such as highways or schools or bridges or docks / docks / docks) constructed at government expense for public use |
| sail | Any structure that resembles a sail |
| set-back, setoff, offset | structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly |
| shelter | A structure that provides privacy and protection from danger |
| shoebox | A structure resembling a shoebox (as a rectangular building or a cramped room or compartment) |
| signboard, sign | structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted |
| stadium, bowl, arena, sports stadium | A large structure for open-air sports or entertainments |
| superstructure | structure consisting of the part of a ship above the main deck |
| supporting structure | A structure that serves to support something |
| tower | A structure taller than its diameter |
| transept | structure forming the transverse part of a cruciform church |
| trestlework | A supporting structure composed of a system of connected trestles |
| vaulting | (architecture) a vaulted structure |
| ways, shipway, slipway | structure consisting of a sloping way down to the water from the place where ships are built or repaired |
| wellhead | A structure built over a well |
| wind tunnel | A structure resembling a tunnel where air is blown / blown / blown at known velocities for testing parts of aircraft |
| Broader | artifact, artefact | A man-made object taken as a whole |
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| Spanish | construcción, estructura |
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| Catalan | construcció, estructura |
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English > structure: 6 senses > noun 4, body| Meaning | A particular complex anatomical part of a living thing. |
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| Example | "he has good bone structure" |
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| Synonyms | anatomical structure, complex body part, bodily structure, body structure |
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| Narrower | alveolar bed | lung tissue densely packed with alveoli |
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| apodeme | Ridge-like ingrowth of the exoskeleton of an arthropod that supports internal organs and provides attachment points for muscles |
| aster | star-shaped structure formed in the cytoplasm of a cell having fibers like rays that surround the centrosome during mitosis |
| ball | A more or less rounded anatomical body or mass |
| blade | A broad flat body part (as of the shoulder or tongue) |
| bony labyrinth, osseous labyrinth | cavity in the petrous part of the temporal bone that contains the membranous labyrinth |
| bridge | The hard ridge that forms the upper part of the nose |
| bulb | A rounded dilation or expansion in a canal or vessel or organ |
| calyculus, caliculus, calycle | A small cup-shaped structure (as a taste bud or optic cup or cavity of a coral containing a polyp) |
| capsule | A structure that encloses a body part |
| carina | Any of various keel-shaped structures or ridges such as that on the breastbone of a bird or that formed by the fused petals of a pea blossom |
| cartilaginous structure | body structure given shape by cartilage |
| cauda | Any taillike structure |
| cavity, bodily cavity, cavum | (anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus / sinus within the body |
| centromere, kinetochore | A specialized condensed region of each chromosome that appears during mitosis where the chromatids are held together to form an X shape |
| chiasma, chiasm, decussation | An intersection or crossing of two tracts in the form of the letter X |
| cingulum | (anatomy) an encircling structure (as the ridge around the base of a tooth) |
| concha | (anatomy) a structure that resembles a shell in shape |
| cornu | (anatomy) any structure that resembles a horn in shape |
| corona | (anatomy) any structure that resembles a crown in shape |
| costa | A riblike part of a plant or animal (such as a middle rib of a leaf or a thickened vein of an insect wing) |
| cytoskeleton | A microscopic network of actin filaments and microtubules in the cytoplasm of many living cells that gives the cell shape and coherence |
| filament, filum | A threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells) |
| fold, plica | A folded part (as in skin or muscle) |
| fundus | (anatomy) the base of a hollow organ or that part of the organ farthest from its opening |
| funiculus | Any of several body structure resembling a cord |
| germ | A small apparently simple structure (as a fertilized egg) from which new tissue can develop into a complete organism |
| gill arch, branchial arch, gill bar | One of the bony or cartilaginous arches on each side of the pharynx that support the gills of fishes and aquatic amphibians |
| gill slit, branchial cleft, gill cleft | One of a series of slit openings in the pharynxes of fishes and aquatic amphibians through which water passes |
| glans | A small rounded structure |
| gyrus, convolution | A convex fold or elevation in the surface of the brain |
| head | The rounded end of a bone that fits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint |
| head | That part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves |
| horny structure, unguis | Any rigid body structure composed primarily of keratin |
| infundibulum | Any of various funnel-shaped parts of the body (but especially the hypophyseal stalk) |
| interstice | A small structural space between tissues or parts of an organ |
| lacrimal apparatus | The structures that secrete and drain tears from the eye |
| landmark | An anatomical structure used as a point of origin in locating other anatomical structures (as in surgery) or as point from which measurements can be taken |
| layer | Thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells |
| lens nucleus, nucleus | The central structure of the lens that is surrounded by the cortex |
| limbus | A border or edge of any of various body parts distinguished by color or structure |
| membranous labyrinth | The sensory structures of the inner ear including the labyrinthine receptors and the cochlea |
| neural structure | A structure that is part of the nervous system |
| nucleolus organizer, nucleolus organiser, nucleolar organizer, nucleolar organiser | The particular part of a chromosome that is associated with a nucleolus after nuclear division |
| pad | The fleshy cushion-like underside of an animal's foot or of a human's finger |
| passage, passageway | A path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass |
| peristome | region around the mouth in various invertebrates |
| plate | Any flat platelike body ... / body structure or part |
| plexus, rete | A network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting / intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels |
| radicle | (anatomy) a small structure resembling a rootlet (such as a fibril of a nerve) |
| receptor | A cellular structure that is postulated to exist in order to mediate between a chemical agent that acts on nervous tissue and the physiological response |
| rib | A riblike supporting or strengthening part of an animal or plant |
| root | The part of a tooth that is embedded in the jaw and serves as support |
| rotator cuff | A supporting structure of the shoulder consisting of the muscles and tendons that attach the arm to the shoulder joint and enable the arm to move |
| skeletal structure | Any structure created by the skeleton of an organism |
| syrinx | The vocal organ of a bird |
| tooth | toothlike structure in invertebrates found in the mouth or alimentary canal or on a shell |
| tube, tube-shaped structure | (anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure |
| uvea | The part of the eye that contains the iris and ciliary body and choroid |
| valve | A structure in a hollow organ (like the heart) with a flap to insure one-way flow of fluid through it |
| vascular structure | A structure composed of or provided with blood vessels |
| zone, zona | (anatomy) any encircling or beltlike structure |
| Broader | body part | Any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity |
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| Spanish | estructura anatómica, estructura |
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| Catalan | estructura anatòmica, estructura |
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English > structure: 6 senses > noun 5, group| Meaning | The people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships. |
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| Example | "sociologists have studied the changing structure of the family" |
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| Synonyms | social organization, social organisation, social structure, social system |
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| Member of | society | An extended social group having a distinctive cultural / cultural and economic organization |
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| Members | political system, form of government | The members of a social organization who are in power |
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| Narrower | class structure | The organization of classes within a society |
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| feudalism, feudal system | The social system that developed in Europe in the 8th century |
| matriarchy, matriarchate | A form of social organization in which a female is the family head and title is traced through the female line |
| meritocracy | A form of social system in which power goes to those with superior intellects |
| patriarchy, patriarchate | A form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line |
| pluralism | A social organization in which diversity of racial or religious or ethnic or cultural / cultural groups is tolerated |
| segregation, separatism | A social system that provides separate facilities / facilities for minority groups |
| Broader | system, scheme | A group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole |
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| Spanish | estructura social, organización social, sistema social |
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| Catalan | estructura social, organització social |
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