Shape vs Structure - What's the difference?
shape | structure |
The status or condition of something
Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
The appearance of something, especially its outline.
A figure with unspecified appearance; especially a geometric figure.
Form; formation.
* 2006 , Berdj Kenadjian, Martin Zakarian, From Darkness to Light :
(iron manufacture) A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.
(iron manufacture) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.
A mould for making jelly, blancmange etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded into a particular shape.
*1918 , (Rebecca West), The Return of the Soldier , Virago 2014, p. 74:
*:‘And if I'm late for supper there's a dish of macaroni cheese you must put in the oven and a tin of tomatoes to eat with it. And there's a little rhubarb and shape .’
To give something a shape and definition.
* 1932 , The American Scholar , page 227, United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa
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To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
(obsolete) To imagine; to conceive.
* Shakespeare
A cohesive whole built up of distinct parts.
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The overall form or organization of something.
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A set of rules defining behaviour.
(computing) Several pieces of data treated as a unit.
(fishing, uncountable) Underwater terrain or objects (such as a dead tree or a submerged car) that tend to attract fish
A body, such as a political party, with a cohesive purpose or outlook.
(logic) A set along with a collection of finitary functions and relations.
To give structure to; to arrange.
In transitive terms the difference between shape and structure
is that shape is to give something a shape and definition while structure is to give structure to; to arrange.shape
English
Noun
(en noun)- The used bookshop wouldn't offer much due to the poor shape of the book.
- The vet checked to see what kind of shape the animal was in.
- We exercise to keep in good physical shape .
- He cut a square shape out of the cake.
- What shape shall we use for the cookies? Stars, circles, or diamonds?
- What if God's plans and actions do mold the shape of human events?
Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* contest shape * * in no shape to * * in shape * out of shape * shapeless * shapely * shapesmith * shape-shifter * shape-shifting * shipshape * take shape * the shape of things to come * whip into shapeSee also
*Verb
- The professor never pretended to the academic prerogative of forcing his students into his own channels of reasoning; he entered into and helped shape the discussion but above all he made his men learn to think for themselves and rely upon their own intellectual judgments.
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- Grace shaped her limbs, and beauty decked her face.
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- (Shakespeare)
- Oft my jealousy / Shapes faults that are not.
Synonyms
* (give shape) form, moldDerived terms
* beshape * foreshape * forshape * misshape * overshape * shape upAnagrams
* * * 1000 English basic wordsstructure
English
(wikipedia structure)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=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.}}
- The birds had built an amazing structure out of sticks and various discarded items.
- He studied the structure of her face.
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- The structure of a sentence.
- The structure of the society was still a mystery.
- For some, the structure of school life was oppressive.
- This structure contains both date and timezone information.
- 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.
- The South African leader went off to consult with the structures .
Synonyms
* (cohesive whole built up of distinct parts) formation * (underlying shape of a solid) formation * (overall form or organization of something) makeup, configurationDerived terms
* antistructureVerb
(structur)- 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.