Phenomenon vs. Structure

Phenomenonnoun

A thing or being, event or process, perceptible through senses; or a fact or occurrence thereof.

Structurenoun

A cohesive whole built up of distinct parts.

‘The birds had built an amazing structure out of sticks and various discarded items.’;

Phenomenonnoun

(extension) A knowable thing or event (eg by inference, especially in science).

Structurenoun

The underlying shape of a solid.

‘He studied the structure of her face.’;

Phenomenonnoun

(metonymy) A kind or type of phenomenon (sense 1 or 2).

Structurenoun

The overall form or organization of something.

‘The structure of a sentence.’; ‘The structure of the society was still a mystery.’;

Phenomenonnoun

Appearance; a perceptible aspect of something that is mutable.

Structurenoun

A set of rules defining behaviour.

‘For some, the structure of school life was oppressive.’;

Phenomenonnoun

A fact or event considered very unusual, curious, or astonishing by those who witness it.

Structurenoun

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

‘This structure contains both date and timezone information.’;

Phenomenonnoun

A wonderful or very remarkable person or thing.

Structurenoun

  Underwater terrain or objects (such as a dead tree or a submerged car) that tend to attract fish

‘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.’;

Phenomenonnoun

An experienced object whose constitution reflects the order and conceptual structure imposed upon it by the human mind (especially by the powers of perception and understanding).

Structurenoun

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

‘The South African leader went off to consult with the structures.’;

Phenomenonnoun

An appearance; anything visible; whatever, in matter or spirit, is apparent to, or is apprehended by, observation; as, the phenomena of heat, light, or electricity; phenomena of imagination or memory.

‘In the phenomena of the material world, and in many of the phenomena of mind.’;

Structurenoun

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

Phenomenonnoun

That which strikes one as strange, unusual, or unaccountable; an extraordinary or very remarkable person, thing, or occurrence; as, a musical phenomenon.

Structureverb

(transitive) To give structure to; to arrange.

‘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.’;

Phenomenonnoun

any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning

Structurenoun

The act of building; the practice of erecting buildings; construction.

‘His son builds on, and never is contentTill the last farthing is in structure spent.’;

Phenomenonnoun

a remarkable development

Structurenoun

Manner of building; form; make; construction.

‘Want of insight into the structure and constitution of the terraqueous globe.’;

Phenomenon

A phenomenon (Greek: φαινόμενον, romanized: phainómenon, lit. 'thing appearing to view'; plural phenomena) is an observable fact or event. The term came into its modern philosophical usage through Immanuel Kant, who contrasted it with the noumenon, which cannot be directly observed.

Structurenoun

Arrangement of parts, of organs, or of constituent particles, in a substance or body; as, the structure of a rock or a mineral; the structure of a sentence.

‘It [basalt] has often a prismatic structure.’;

Structurenoun

Manner of organization; the arrangement of the different tissues or parts of animal and vegetable organisms; as, organic structure, or the structure of animals and plants; cellular structure.

Structurenoun

That which is built; a building; esp., a building of some size or magnificence; an edifice.

‘There stands a structure of majestic frame.’;

Structurenoun

a thing constructed; a complex construction or entity;

‘the structure consisted of a series of arches’; ‘she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons’;

Structurenoun

the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts;

‘artists must study the structure of the human body’; ‘the structure of the benzene molecule’;

Structurenoun

the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations;

‘his lectures have no structure’;

Structurenoun

a particular complex anatomical structure;

‘he has good bone structure’;

Structurenoun

the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships;

‘the social organization of England and America is very different’; ‘sociologists have studied the changing structure of the family’;

Structureverb

give a structure to;

‘I need to structure my days’;

Structurenoun

the arrangement of and relations between the parts or elements of something complex

‘the two sentences have equivalent structures’; ‘the company's weakness is the inflexibility of its management structure’;

Structurenoun

the quality of being organized

‘we shall use three headings to give some structure to the discussion’;

Structurenoun

a building or other object constructed from several parts

‘the station is a magnificent structure and should not be demolished’;

Structureverb

construct or arrange according to a plan; give a pattern or organization to

‘services must be structured so as to avoid pitfalls’;

Structure

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.