What's the difference between scene and theater?

Scene


Definition:

  • (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.

Theater


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Theatre

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Clinton met with Jane Dougherty, sister of Mary Sherlach, who was slain at the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012; Tom Sullivan and Matthew Jenks, the father and brother-in-law, respectively, of Alex Sullivan, who was killed in the 2012 movie theater shootings in Aurora, Colorado; and Coni Sanders, daughter of Dave Sanders, killed in the 1999 Columbine High School shootings in Colorado.
  • (2) Here's a tribute from the historic Apollo theater in Harlem, New York City: Touré (@Toure) Photo: The Apollo Theater in Harlem remembers Nelson Mandela.
  • (3) The rate of infections can be reduced to 1% prophylactic administration of antibiotics, surgery in an laminar airflow operating theater, and by the use of cement containing antibiotics.
  • (4) A questionnaire was administered to 71 college students enrolled in dance, drama, and musical theater programs to assess health care problems, injuries, risk-taking behaviors, and sources of care.
  • (5) Transmural gown pressures encountered when the surgeon comes into contact with a patient were measured in the operating theater.
  • (6) She should know about a parent’s trauma: her daughter Tyesa, 20, was fatally shot in 1992 outside of a movie theater by a 14-year-old gang member who was aiming for someone else.
  • (7) The study finds that depressive symptomatology, as measured by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale, is elevated in World War II POWs from the Pacific and European theaters and in Korean conflict POWs.
  • (8) !” Some of those who applauded loudly then, in the Deutsches Theater, will have re-remembered their own reaction by now.
  • (9) On the basis of these experiences the surgical theater should be equipped with these and other instruments in such a way that they can be readily and interchangeably used in any neurosurgical procedure.
  • (10) The wealthier and older clients are provided with sexual services within a setting that might be described as a "macho theater" in which social needs are also allowed expression.
  • (11) Remember this, non-Theater People: if you think Broadway shows are too commercial, too bloated and bedazzled, remember that for every Ring of Fire or Tarzan there is a 90-minute play that takes place in a typewriter factory.
  • (12) Big movies that will be good Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (11 July) “Who asked for this?” I snarked as I entered the theater during 2011's Rise of the Planet of the Apes.
  • (13) Randomization was done by telephone from the operating theater, and stratification was by hospital only.
  • (14) So confident was Fox, indeed, that the company insisted that theaters leasing Midnight also take on a project for which they had far more modest hopes: Star Wars, a little space opera with no stars from the director of American Graffiti .
  • (15) Remember the Theater People: the gal rigging lights for her community theater's production of The Chalk Garden in Brainerd, Minnesota.
  • (16) 99mTe diphosphonate scintigraphy, which can be performed outside the operating theater with little discomfort to the patient, proved to be a reliable, noninvasive method of assessing the blood flow to the femoral head.
  • (17) He has just been awarded a MacArthur “ genius grant ” and it’s hard to think of a contemporary music theater composer who deserves it more.
  • (18) Nitrous oxide is the anaesthetic employed in the largest amount during general anaesthesia and it can be used as an indicator of occupational exposure to all the components the mixture; but if the pattern of dispersion of them (when leaking into the operating theater) are not the same, two indicators should be used: N2O (gas) + another component the mixture (vapour).
  • (19) Less visibly emotional than on other occasions, the president made a brief reference to the gun control issue, saying: “This massacre is therefore a further reminder of how easy it is for someone to get their hands on a weapon that allows them to shoot people at a school, or a movie theater, or a church or a nightclub.
  • (20) The technique must have ready availability, preferably in every operating theater dealing with abdominal emergencies.