Definitions for structures
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1. structures

   A structure is an arrangement and organization of interrelated elements in a material object or system, or the object or system so organized. Material structures include man-made objects such as buildings and machines and natural objects such as biological organisms, minerals and chemicals. Abstract structures include data structures in computer science and musical form. Types of structure include a hierarchy (a cascade of one-to-many relationships), a network featuring many-to-many links, or a lattice featuring connections between components that are neighbors in space.

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1. Structures

   Structures I and Structures II are two related works for two pianos, composed by the French composer Pierre Boulez.

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1. structures

   Plural form of structure.

   The structures in the building are sturdy and built to stand for eternity, such an intelligent design.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on December 28, 2015  

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   structuresverb

   Verb form of structure.

   The various structures are required to maintain the building.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on January 26, 2020  

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1. structures

   Song lyrics by structures -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by structures on the Lyrics.com website.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'structures' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2283

How to pronounce structures?

1. Alex

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   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

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   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

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   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of structures in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of structures in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of structures in a Sentence

1. Ursula K. Le Guin:

   To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.

2. Václav Havel:

   You do not become a dissident just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.

3. Samson Lee:

   The Chinese market is opening very fast and we are facing new regulations almost every six months or every quarter, the banks have to react quite quickly to all these changes. Even for credit structures and bond structures, we're already seeing changes.

4. Northrop Frye:

   It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

5. Gregorio Catapang:

   If we formalize (now) and they start putting up structures and it's not constitutional, they will have to destroy those structures.

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