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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈstɹʌk(t)ʃə/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈstɹʌkt͡ʃɚ/
• (General Australian) IPA: [ˈstʃɹɐktʃə]
• (Northern England) IPA: /ˈstɹʊkt͡ʃə/
• (Scotland) IPA: /ˈstɾʌkt͡ʃəɾ/
• (Wales) IPA: /ˈstɾʌkt͡ʃə/
• ハイフネーション: struc‧ture

名詞

structure (countable and uncountable, plural structures)

1. A cohesive whole built up of distinct parts.

   Synonym: formation

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

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement.

   • 2019 September 26, Gianluca Mezzofiore, “Wanted: A design team for a building project at Earth’s most remote location – Antarctica”, in CNN‎:

     Built in the 1980s, the country’s Scott Base consists of 12 structures that officials want replaced by three large, interconnected buildings, plus a separate helicopter hangar.

2. The underlying shape of a solid.

   Synonym: formation

   He studied the structure of her face.

3. The overall form or organization of something.

   Synonyms: makeup, configuration; see also Thesaurus:composition

   The structure of a sentence.

   The structure of the society was still a mystery.

   • 2012 March, Brian Hayes, “Pixels or Perish”, in American Scientist‎, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 19 February 2013, page 106:

     Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.

4. A set of rules defining behaviour.

   For some, the structure of school life was oppressive.

5. (computing) Several pieces of data treated as a unit.

   This structure contains both date and timezone information.

6. (fishing, uncountable) Underwater terrain or objects (such as a dead tree or a submerged car) that tend to attract fish

   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.

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

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

8. (logic) A set along with a collection of finitary functions and relations.

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動詞

structure (third-person singular simple present structures, present participle structuring, simple past and past participle structured)

1. (transitive) To give structure to; to arrange.

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

   I've structured the deal to limit the amount of money we can lose.

   • 2025, Edward A. F. Gibson, “Dependency Grammar” (chapter 3), in Syntax: A Cognitive Approach, MIT Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 57:

     Next, let’s structure (42c) The girl walked. The verb walked is like slept: an intransitive verb V₀. Its dependent is a subject noun, girl. The noun girl has as its dependent the determiner the, […]

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Further reading

• structure on Wikipedia.Wikipedia