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Scene   /sin/   Listen
Scene

noun
1.
The place where some action occurs.
2.
An incident (real or imaginary).
3.
The visual percept of a region.  Synonyms: aspect, panorama, prospect, view, vista.
4.
A consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film.  Synonym: shot.
5.
A situation treated as an observable object.  Synonym: picture.  "The religious scene in England has changed in the last century"
6.
A subdivision of an act of a play.
7.
A display of bad temper.  Synonyms: conniption, fit, tantrum.  "She threw a tantrum" , "He made a scene"
8.
Graphic art consisting of the graphic or photographic representation of a visual percept.  Synonym: view.  "Figure 2 shows photographic and schematic views of the equipment"
9.
The context and environment in which something is set.  Synonym: setting.
10.
The painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale.  Synonym: scenery.



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"Scene" Quotes from Famous Books



... appear in the examining magistrate's office between one and two in the afternoon. Thither he betook himself, consumed by well-founded suspicions. It was impossible that the President should have foreseen the arrival of the Duchesse de Maufrigneuse upon the scene, the return of the public prosecutor, and the hasty confabulation of his learned brethren; so he had omitted to trace out a plan for du Croisier's guidance in the event of the preliminary examination taking place. Neither of the pair imagined that the proceedings would be hurried on in this ...
— The Collection of Antiquities • Honore de Balzac
... lamps were soft, the air warm and light. A cheerful hum of voices rose, as of talk enjoyed for talking's sake; and a general effect of intimacy, or gayety, of an unfeigned social pleasure, seemed to issue from the charming scene and ...
— Lady Rose's Daughter • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... the massacre began, slaves not in the secret were induced to join. A majority of the slain were women and children. Abolitionists who had lived in slave States never indulged in flippant remarks fitted to incite insurrection. This was reserved for the few agitators far removed from the scene of action. ...
— The Anti-Slavery Crusade - Volume 28 In The Chronicles Of America Series • Jesse Macy
... clean white streaks and zig-zags of chalk on a green slope, made perfect targets on which the guns made perfect shooting; the wood was a mark that no gun could miss, and surely no gun missed. What the scene in that wood must have been is beyond imagining and beyond telling. It was quickly shrouded in a pall of drifting smoke, and dimly through this the observing officers directing the fire of their guns could see clouds of leaves and twigs whirling and leaping under the lashing shrapnel, could ...
— Action Front • Boyd Cable (Ernest Andrew Ewart)
... piano was detached, a being apart from this scene of quiet, absorbed in his piano, which gave forth the turbulence which had been in the soul of the great composer. The expression upon the dark face of the young musician was rapt and eager, until he crashed the chords to their triumphant conclusion ...
— The Vagrant Duke • George Gibbs


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