Structure vs. Building — What's the Difference?

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.

A structure with a roof and walls, such as a house or factory.

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

A building, or edifice, is a structure with a roof and walls standing more or less permanently in one place, such as a house or factory. Buildings come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and functions, and have been adapted throughout history for a wide number of factors, from building materials available, to weather conditions, land prices, ground conditions, specific uses, and aesthetic reasons.

A building or other object constructed from several parts

The action or trade of constructing something

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

A flock of rooks

Something made up of a number of parts that are held or put together in a particular way

Something that is built, as for human habitation; a structure.

The way in which parts are arranged or put together to form a whole; makeup

The act, process, art, or occupation of constructing.

The interrelation or arrangement of parts in a complex entity

(uncountable) The act or process by which something is built; construction.

Something constructed, such as a building.

(countable) A closed structure with walls and a roof.

The arrangement or formation of the tissues, organs, or other parts of an organism.

Present participle of build

An organ or other part of an organism.

The act of constructing, erecting, or establishing.

To give form or arrangement to

The art of constructing edifices, or the practice of civil architecture.

A cohesive whole built up of distinct parts.

That which is built; a fabric or edifice constructed, as a house, a church, etc.

The underlying shape of a solid.

A structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place;

The overall form or organization of something.

The act of constructing or building something;

A set of rules defining behaviour.

The commercial activity involved in constructing buildings;

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

The occupants of a building;

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.

(transitive) To give structure to; to arrange.

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

Manner of building; form; make; construction.

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.

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.

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

A thing constructed; a complex construction or entity;

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

The complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations;

A particular complex anatomical structure;

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

Give a structure to;