different between structure vs relationship

English

Etymology

From Middle French structure, from Latin struct?ra (“a fitting together, adjustment, building, erection, a building, edifice, structure”), from struere, past participle structus (“pile up, arrange, assemble, build”). Compare construct, instruct, destroy, etc.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?st??kt??(?)/, [?st??kt??(?)]
• (US) IPA^(key): /?st??kt??/

Noun

structure (countable and uncountable, plural structures)

1. A cohesive whole built up of distinct parts.

   Synonym: formation

2. The underlying shape of a solid.

   Synonym: formation

3. The overall form or organization of something.

   Synonyms: makeup, configuration; see also Thesaurus:composition

4. A set of rules defining behaviour.

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

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

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

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

Derived terms

• antistructure

Translations

Verb

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

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

Translations

Related terms

• infrastructure
• macrostructure
• microstructure
• restructure
• structural
• structuralism
• structuralist
• structured
• substructure
• superstructure
• unstructured

Further reading

• structure on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Latin structura

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?yk.ty?/
• Rhymes: -y?
• Homophone: structures

Noun

structure f (plural structures)

1. structure

   Le plain-chant est la paraphrase aérienne et mouvante de l'immobile structure des cathédrales. (Huysmans, En route, 1895)

Synonyms

• agencement
• disposition
• ordre
• organisation

Antonyms

• anarchie
• chaos

Derived terms

• infrastructure
• structural
• structuralisme
• structuraliste
• structurant
• structuration
• structurer
  • déstructurer
  • restructurer
• structuration
• structure de données
• structurel
• structurellement
• substructure
• superstructure

References

• “structure” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Further reading

• “structure” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Participle

str?ct?re

1. vocative masculine singular of str?ct?rus

English

Etymology

From relation +? -ship.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???le??(?)n??p/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???le???n???p/
• Hyphenation: re?la?tion?ship

Noun

relationship (plural relationships)

1. Connection or association; the condition of being related.
2. (mathematics) The links between the x-values and y-values of ordered pairs of numbers especially coordinates.
3. Kinship; being related by blood or marriage.
4. A romantic or sexual involvement.
   • 1975 March 17, Marian Christy, "Suzy Chaffee, A Liberated Beauty", The Lebanon Daily News

     I'm not advocating sexual promiscuity but I think it's possible for a woman to have many kinds of sexual relationships with many men and that shouldn't affect the status of the marriage.

   • 2000, April 8, Dorthea Straus, "Oates on Marilyn: Men, drugs, tragedy", The Baltimore Sun

     Her most satisfying sexual relationship seemed to be a threesome with Charles Chaplin Jr. and Eddy Robinson Jr., the spurned sons of famous film fathers.

5. A way in which two or more people behave and are involved with each other
6. (music) The level or degree of affinity between keys, chords and tones.

Hyponyms

• joking relationship

Derived terms

• entity-relationship diagram
• entity-relationship model
• relationship anarchy
• relationshipless
• relationshiply
• relationshippy
• relationshopping

Translations

See also

• relate
• relation
• relative