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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
structured
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
carefully
▪ The use of a carefully structured finite-state grammar allows all the utterances to be specified ahead of time.
▪ For some schools the central guidelines will be interpreted through a carefully structured timetable.
highly
▪ The operational system appeared, to a certain extent, to be fairly regulated with highly structured and defined job descriptions.
▪ But is this the only way in which a complicated and highly structured civilization can evolve?
▪ It is certainly verified experimentally that the sonic clicks produced are both highly structured and directional.
▪ This new paradigm has enabled the development of highly structured and usually brief interventions in many areas of individual emotional problems.
▪ This is a highly structured software where data is divided into fields.
▪ That is to say that every individual lives according to a highly structured set of personal obligations which he or she must continually fulfil.
▪ G M Miller A highly structured talk on what was probably the most challenging topic in this year's list.
▪ What would be a theme for some one seeking a highly structured environment?
more
▪ It may be possible as a result of the pre-test to change certain questions from free response to a more structured format.
▪ The transition from Key Stage 1 to the more structured and prescribed history curriculum for Key Stage 2 needs particularly careful handling.
▪ Comments and responses to the practice profile questionnaire were analysed with a more structured database program.
▪ And a need for a more structured set of relationships was not recognized.
▪ Mr Hart believes there should be a more structured approach to problem-solving as there is at the Halewood plant.
▪ Nowadays evaluation has a tendency to be much more structured and less prosaic.
▪ Complete with diffuser and concentrator nozzle attachments, it's perfect for creating quick, sexy scrunched looks or more structured styles.
▪ At this stage more structured teaching of drawing should be given.
■ NOUN
approach
▪ This structured approach might then be extended to other shapes.
▪ She adopted an individually structured approach to teaching which allowed students to work at their own pace as and when they pleased.
▪ Mr Hart believes there should be a more structured approach to problem-solving as there is at the Halewood plant.
▪ He is to be congratulated on this singularly structured approach.
▪ It works by identifying the key skill gaps and providing a structured approach to the delivery of the training.
▪ While some appreciated the more structured approach of the questionnaire, most wanted more space and less detail.
▪ As well as having a structured approach to content, there is also a need for a structured approach to concepts.
dependency
▪ In a sense, much modern human life is about structured dependency.
▪ This historical work itself represents a strong challenge to some of the premises which underpin the idea of structured dependency.
interview
▪ An initial structured interview will be followed by three semi-structured interviews over a six-month period.
▪ This can not be achieved through a structured interview or a questionnaire.
▪ Primary data is usually obtained by means of questionnaires and structured interviews, administered by trained personnel.
▪ Data collection is mainly by questionnaire and structured interviews with families, youth groups and problem drinkers.
▪ Both interviewer and respondent are allowed much greater leeway in asking and answering questions than is the case with the structured interview.
▪ Both the questionnaires and the structured interviews tend to concentrate on what the customer likes and dislikes, rather than why.
▪ Selected policy issues will be used to explore these aspects of central-local relations, using documentary study and structured interviews.
▪ Third, structured interviews with a sample of successful firms to establish their philosophy and practices.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a structured learning plan
▪ The situation has made us aware of the need for a more structured approach to dealing with prisoners' problems.
▪ The social workers' home visits are highly structured, with specific goals and learning objectives.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Both interviewer and respondent are allowed much greater leeway in asking and answering questions than is the case with the structured interview.
▪ But is this the only way in which a complicated and highly structured civilization can evolve?
▪ First, the problem presented by the client must be of the type that will be responsive to the structured group programme.
▪ Such information is organised in records as structured data.
▪ This structured approach might then be extended to other shapes.
▪ This can not be achieved through a structured interview or a questionnaire.
▪ This study is important in establishing that structured recording of data improves patient care.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Structured

Structured \Struc"tured\, a. (Biol.) Having a definite organic structure; showing differentiation of parts.

The passage from a structureless state to a structured state is itself a vital process.
--H. Spencer.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
structured

1810, past participle adjective from structure (v.). Meaning "organized so as to produce results" is from 1959.

Wiktionary
structured

  1. having structure; organized v

  2. (en-past of: structure)

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WordNet
structured

  1. adj. having definite and highly organized structure; "a structured environment" [ant: unstructured]

  2. resembling a living organism in organization or development; "society as an integrated whole" [syn: integrated]

Usage examples of "structured".

That same clarity, in which individual sentences may be elegantly structured, but are never so complex or quirkily fashioned as to call attention to themselves and so pull the reader from the story, is also highly valued in the world of adult SF.

Since the object itself was in effect little more than an intricately structured spherical spindizzy screen which screened nothing material, it would have been impossible to see it at all were it not for the small jet of artificial smoke which issued from the floor directly under it and was wreathed about it by convection currents, making it look a little like a huge bubble being supported in the middle of a fountain.

A fellow refugee from a plastic structured culture, uninsured, unadjusted, unconvinced.

Rather than evoking combinations of memories of previous knowledge, it is aimed at breaking through all conceptually structured experience to a radically unprecedented mode of unmediated awareness.

Quickly, Christa shifted to a delicately structured countermelody that hovered between the dorian and the phrygian mode, twined like a growing vine, reached out and enveloped Melinda.

He proved adept at structured deals, and his star soon rose in the division.

All depicting structured deals that juggled around assets-power plants, cash, whatever-so Enron could present its prettiest financial face to the world.

No one knew that for years, Enron had struggled in its structured deals, trying to find investors willing to cough up far less than that amount.

The dogs could not fully adjust from a highly structured, disciplined life to the quieter civilian environment.

I am saying that specific experiences, themselves linguistically structured in many ways, are not captured in signifiers without a corresponding lifeworld signified.

He let his gaze slowly travel nearer, noting how the gardens became progressively more structured the closer they got to the house.

To the Kabbalist, who actually linked his every waking thought and deed to this highest and subtlest form of it, humility therefore became a perfect instrument for the ego annihilation that preceded structured meditation.

Human societiesall of themwere somehow structured in a nonlogical, non-mathematical way.

And we have a chance here to stop the Relatives before they move into gene-splicing, a new area of small, potentially lucrative, highly exploitable companies with the potential to maybe someday change everything about how human cells are structured.

You cannot negotiate from a position of weakness, and in the Aventine Empire society is structured so that Readers, without property, without money, without the right to hold office, are in the weakest position of all.