Texture vs. Structure — What's the Difference?

The feel, appearance, or consistency of a surface or a substance

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.

Give (a surface) a rough or raised texture

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

A structure of interwoven fibers or other elements.

A building or other object constructed from several parts

The distinctive physical composition or structure of something, especially with respect to the size, shape, and arrangement of its parts

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

The appearance and feel of a surface

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

A rough or grainy surface quality

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

Distinctive or identifying quality or character

The interrelation or arrangement of parts in a complex entity

The quality given to a piece of art, literature, or music by the interrelationship of its elements

Something constructed, such as a building.

To give texture to, especially to impart desirable surface characteristics to

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

The feel or shape of a surface or substance; the smoothness, roughness, softness, etc. of something.

An organ or other part of an organism.

(arts) The quality given to a work of art by the composition and interaction of its parts.

To give form or arrangement to

(computer graphics) An image applied to a polygon to create the appearance of a surface.

A cohesive whole built up of distinct parts.

(obsolete) The act or art of weaving.

The underlying shape of a solid.

(obsolete) Something woven; a woven fabric; a web.

The overall form or organization of something.

A tissue.

A set of rules defining behaviour.

To create or apply a texture.

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

The act or art of weaving.

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

That which woven; a woven fabric; a web.

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

The disposition or connection of threads, filaments, or other slender bodies, interwoven; as, the texture of cloth or of a spider's web.

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

The disposition of the several parts of any body in connection with each other, or the manner in which the constituent parts are united; structure; as, the texture of earthy substances or minerals; the texture of a plant or a bone; the texture of paper; a loose or compact texture.

(transitive) To give structure to; to arrange.

A tissue. See Tissue.

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

To form a texture of or with; to interweave.

Manner of building; form; make; construction.

The feel of a surface or a fabric;

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.

The essential quality of something;

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.

The musical pattern created by parts being played or sung together;

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

The characteristic appearance of a surface having a tactile quality

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;