(n.) The structure on which a spectacle or play is exhibited; the part of a theater in which the acting is done, with its adjuncts and decorations; the stage.
(n.) The decorations and fittings of a stage, representing the place in which the action is supposed to go on; one of the slides, or other devices, used to give an appearance of reality to the action of a play; as, to paint scenes; to shift the scenes; to go behind the scenes.
(n.) So much of a play as passes without change of locality or time, or important change of character; hence, a subdivision of an act; a separate portion of a play, subordinate to the act, but differently determined in different plays; as, an act of four scenes.
(n.) The place, time, circumstance, etc., in which anything occurs, or in which the action of a story, play, or the like, is laid; surroundings amid which anything is set before the imagination; place of occurrence, exhibition, or action.
(n.) An assemblage of objects presented to the view at once; a series of actions and events exhibited in their connection; a spectacle; a show; an exhibition; a view.
(n.) A landscape, or part of a landscape; scenery.
(n.) An exhibition of passionate or strong feeling before others; often, an artifical or affected action, or course of action, done for effect; a theatrical display.
(v. t.) To exhibit as a scene; to make a scene of; to display.
Example Sentences:
(1) If Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, who bought the island in 1738, were to return today he would doubtless recognise the scene, though he might be surprised that his small private buildings have grown into a sizable hotel.
(2) It was so difficult to keep a straight face when I was filming a sauna scene with Roy Barraclough, who played the mayor of Blackpool.
(3) Mendl's candy colours contrast sharply with the gothic garb of our hero's enemies and the greys of the prison uniforms – as well as scenes showing the hotel later, in the 1960s, its opulence lost beneath a drab communist refurb.
(4) The visual processes revealed in these experiments are considered in terms of inferred illumination and surface reflectances of objects in natural scenes.
(5) The ruling centre-right coalition government of Angela Merkel was dealt a blow by voters in a critical regional election on Sunday after the centre-left opposition secured a wafer-thin victory, setting the scene for a tension-filled national election in the autumn when everything will be up for grabs.
(6) It is generally agreed upon that ERT is fruitless in the patient with severe head trauma or when vital signs were absent at the scene of the injury.
(7) Beijing has no interest in seeing strained ties affecting development plans either.” The Moranbong band was founded by Kim Jong-un , with each member reportedly selected by a leader eager to make his mark on the cultural scene.
(8) He had links to networks including the Hammerskin Nation and was involved in an underground music scene often referred to as "white power music" or "hate rock".
(9) To be sure, when Russia withdrew Cuba's only deterrent against ongoing US attack with a severe threat to proceed to direct invasion and quietly departed from the scene, the Cubans would be infuriated – as they were, understandably.
(10) Some 10 fire engines remained on the scene after rushing there to extinguish the many blazes caused by the crash.
(11) China’s new law also restricts the right of media to report on details of terror attacks, including a provision that media and social media cannot report on details of terror activities that might lead to imitation, nor show scenes that are “cruel and inhuman”.
(12) While winds gusting to 170mph caused significant damage, the devastation in areas such as Tacloban – where scenes are reminiscent of the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami – was principally the work of the 6-metre-high storm surge, which carried away even the concrete buildings in which many people sought shelter.
(13) Chikavu Nyirenda, a leading political analyst, said: "She neglected to look at the local scene but spent a lot of time to please the west and promote herself."
(14) Once on scene, an ALS unit can turn a patient over to a basic life support (BLS) unit for transport.
(15) They had mounted a vigorous lobbying campaign, both in public and behind the scenes, since the legislation first came to light this month .
(16) Morel was arrested after his car was matched with one caught on camera fleeing the scene, and was involved in a hit-and-run with a cyclist 10 minutes after the shooting .
(17) Vladimir Putin brushed off complaints of election fixing during his annual televised live chat with the nation on Thursday , but behind the scenes his lieutenants are anxiously plotting how to quell rising discontent.
(18) Audiences were disappointed that the love scenes between Taylor and Burton that had been the talk of modern Rome were not repeated with so much passion in those of ancient Rome.
(19) The UK, France and Germany have been accused of hypocrisy for lobbying behind the scenes to keep outmoded car tests for carbon emissions, but later publicly calling for a European investigation into Volkswagen’s rigging of car air pollution tests .
(20) The Assyrian Empire, though it did fluctuate in strength, had gone down finally over six hundred years before this scene is set.
Scenic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Scenical
Example Sentences:
(1) It was pored over by line producers, prop masters, location scouts, production designers, scenic designers, costume designers, directors, assistant directors, second assistant directors, and second second assistant directors – at each step becoming more real, as if emerging from the shimmer of some distant desert horizon.
(2) I had imagined that this would be an interesting journey, if not spectacularly scenic, since this landscape is infamously flat.
(3) The Grade II-listed scenic railway, devastated by an arson attack in 2008, has been rebuilt, wooden slat by wooden slat, back to its rickety, grinding glory.
(4) When he started studying at the Royal College of Art in London, Thorgerson shared a flat in South Kensington with his friend Aubrey Powell , who found a job as a scenic designer at the BBC.
(5) Getting to somewhere this remote involves a lot of driving, but the scenery is consistently, well, scenic.
(6) The therapeutic techniques used are psychoanalytic with special regard to the scenic figures which arise during the course of a session.
(7) Nash was heavily criticised in his day and after for preferring grandiose scenic effects over actual build quality, with cheap brick houses under the painted cream stucco, but now his developments are kept up to a sparkle by their astonishingly wealthy occupiers.
(8) The town sits next to the Ben Lomond scenic reserve, but is also marketed as “the adventure capital of New Zealand”.
(9) Kabuki as we see it today - in, for example, Shunkan or The Scene on Devil's Island, one of the greatest in the repertoire - is action-packed, scenically thrilling and histrionically flamboyant.
(10) Except for scenic highway 20, which runs east to west through the park, North Cascades is crossed by few roads – but is bisected by the US-Canada border.
(11) Kayaks and motorboats are available for rent, with scenic hiking paths heading into the hills.
(12) Two scenic pictures taken of the Andes during an all-expenses paid trip generated 19,386 and 20,462 likes.
(13) The scenic drive along Bear Lake Road skirts broad meadows full of elk grazing beneath jagged peaks.
(14) Photograph: National Trust What do you do if you hanker after a dose of solitude somewhere scenic and remote, but can no longer heft a heavy rucksack because of a dodgy back?
(15) The mayor said he envisions: “the creation of a grand waterfront park” close to the Adrienne Arsht Performing Arts Center with an “unparalleled experience of sports, recreation, arts and culture.” The site, Gimenez said, would give Beckham’s group the nine-acre stadium “footprint” it was seeking while converting underutilised land into vibrant and scenic public space.
(16) The mayor, Richard Berry, said the series highlighted Albuquerque's low-tax, sun-kissed, scenic lure to film and TV productions which have spent $416m in the past four years.
(17) There’s also retro furniture from Junk Deluxe , including decorative items crafted from pieces of the original scenic railway.
(18) Take the scenic route I've written seven shows in, what, eight years?
(19) The stadium’s supporters do not have the right to leave the nation with a legacy that will be a blight on Japan’s first officially designated scenic area,” it said in a recent editorial.
(20) With that familiar unconcerned swagger, he waited to nick the ball clear of the onrushing striker before composing a more scenic route upfield.