All 6 Uses
structure
in
The Namesake
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- It is the one thing that structures their days: the sound of the food being warmed in the microwave, three plates lowered from the cupboard, three glasses filled.
Chpt 7 *structures = gives shape or order
- On numerous occasions he's been driven to see the building, a low, long, brick structure with a perfectly flat roof and a flag that flaps at the top of a tall white pole planted on the lawn.†
Chpt 3
- A tour guide tells them that after the Taj was completed, each of the builders, twenty-two thousand men, had his thumbs cut off so that the structure could never be built again.†
Chpt 4 *
- In her mind she would have relationships with these men, structuring her days around chance meetings in the library, or a conversation during office hours, or the one class she and a fellow student shared, so that even now she associated a particular year of college with the man or boy she had silently, faithfully, absurdly, desired.†
Chpt 8
- Though she still has a dissertation to write, still has an adviser to monitor her progress, she feels unmoored already, somehow beyond the world that has defined and structured and limited her for so long.†
Chpt 10
- This is what upsets her most to admit: that the affair causes her to feel strangely at peace, the complication of it calming her, structuring her day.†
Chpt 10
Definitions:
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(1)
(structure as in: sentence structure or structure it) an organized form or system; or the act of giving something that form
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(2)
(structure as in: a massive structure) something made of parts -- often a building
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)