[struc.ture] n [ME, fr. L structura, fr. structus, pp. of struere to heap up, build--more at strew] (15c) 1: the action of building: construction
2. a: something (as a building) that is constructed b: something arranged in a definite pattern of organization "a rigid totalitarian ~ --J. L. Hess" "leaves and other plant ~s"
3: manner of construction: makeup "Gothic in ~"
4. a: the arrangement of particles or parts in a substance or body "soil ~" "molecular ~" b: organization of parts as dominated by the general character of the whole "economic ~" "personality ~"
5: the aggregate of elements of an entity in their relationships to each other -- struc.ture.less adj -- struc.ture.less.ness n
[2]structure vt struc.tured ; struc.tur.ing (ca. 1693) 1: to form into or according to a structure
2: construct