structured

English

Etymology

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English structure

English -ed

English structured

From structure + -ed.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

structured (comparative more structured, superlative most structured)

1. Having structure; organized.
   • 1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 137:

     Over the centuries the movement of clans and tribes of people has provided the kind of crop that would emerge if a blind god had sprinkled seeds at random on a field - a vast array of diverse patterns, usually not even interlocking or decussated, but crossed and intersected by every kind of structured diversity.

   • 2020 March 16, Matt Villano, “How ‘regular school’ parents can homeschool their kids”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Dr. Jessie Voigts, a homeschooler and founder of Wandering Educators, a global community of educators sharing travel experiences, said it doesn’t matter if this time is structured or unstructured, so long as the kids get outside.

Derived terms

• heterostructured
• macrostructured
• mesostructured
• microstructured
• multistructured
• nanostructured
• nonstructured
• overstructured
• prestructured
• quasistructured
• semistructured
• structured analysis
• structured ASIC
• structured cabling
• structured content
• structured criticality
• structured data
• structured design
• structured finance
• structured interviewing
• structuredness
• structured packing
• structured product
• structured programming
• Structured Query Language
• structured sale
• structured settlement
• structured shirt
• structured storage
• structured text
• structured wiring
• unstructured
• well-structured

Translations

having structure; organized

• Asturian: estructuráu
• Belarusian: структурава́ны (strukturavány)
• Catalan: estructurat
• Czech: strukturovaný
• Danish: struktureret
• Dutch: gestructureerd (nl)
• French: structuré (fr)
• Galician: estruturado
• German: strukturiert (de)
• Greek: δομημένος (el) (domiménos)
• Hindi: व्यवस्थित (hi) (vyavasthit), संगठित (hi) (saṅgṭhit)
• Hungarian: strukturált (hu)
• Indonesian: terstruktur (id)
• Italian: strutturato (it)
• Malay: distrukturkan, berstruktur
• Portuguese: estruturado (pt)
• Romanian: structurat (ro)
• Russian: структури́рованный (ru) (strukturírovannyj)
• Spanish: estructurado (es)
• Swedish: strukturerat (sv)
• Turkish: yapılandırılmış, yapısal (tr)
• Ukrainian: структуро́ваний (strukturóvanyj)

Verb

structured

1. simple past and past participle of structure

   He structured the loan with a twenty-year term.