What's the difference between scenery and vista?

Scenery


Definition:

  • (n.) Assemblage of scenes; the paintings and hangings representing the scenes of a play; the disposition and arrangement of the scenes in which the action of a play, poem, etc., is laid; representation of place of action or occurence.
  • (n.) Sum of scenes or views; general aspect, as regards variety and beauty or the reverse, in a landscape; combination of natural views, as woods, hills, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) American Horror Story is a paean to the supernatural whose greatest purpose is letting washed-up actors and pop stars chew the scenery on the way to winning awards .
  • (2) The stunning Mattmark lake above Saas Almagell The scenery is like I'd imagine a TV advert for anti-depressants.
  • (3) If you record the background scenery then you would lose the sense of depth and so if you look very carefully at the invisible skyscraper you would essentially just see the picture on the wall.
  • (4) Jack Nicholson , in the first of his great over-the-top performances of the 80s, doesn't just chew the scenery – he swallows it whole.
  • (5) Getting to somewhere this remote involves a lot of driving, but the scenery is consistently, well, scenic.
  • (6) The route passes through the wild scenery of the West Coast national park , full of flowers in the summer, and after a few hours you emerge on a peaceful crescent of white sand.
  • (7) David Freese was also brought in with the idea that a change of scenery would potentially help him live up to all that early promise.
  • (8) Covering much of Mount Desert island off the coast of Maine, the park has spectacular scenery with craggy inlets and rolling hills.
  • (9) "Kenton was one of those persons, of whom there are many, who find the contemplation of scenery very boring."
  • (10) Diffident technically, she none the less doggedly pursued the detail of the execution of her scenery and costumes: she got what she needed.
  • (11) If history isn’t your thing, the park also offers plenty of coastal scenery, including eight miles of hiking trails to secluded coves.
  • (12) Set on the side of a shallow green valley of fields, coppices and orchards, Rakinice is an astonishingly beautiful spot, but you cannot eat the scenery.
  • (13) Home to both perhaps the most gorgeous scenery on earth and some of its poorest people.
  • (14) If you bring something humanmade into that scenery, it’s not just about nature, but about our role in that landscape.” Nordby conceived the idea for SALT, which she founded along with cultural entrepreneur Erlend Mogård-Larsen, in 2010 while the pair were curating the Lofoten International Art Festival.
  • (15) In east Yorkshire, Kevin Rushby enjoys the world-class coastal scenery around Flamborough Head , while across the Dales, kayaking is a great way to enjoy the vast tidal sands of the Cumbrian coast .
  • (16) In fact, many of his motifs from Åsgårdstrand are as sublime as the scenery that surrounded him.
  • (17) • Iceland’s people, wildlife and scenery is the subject of Iceland – Land of Ice and Fire, broadcast at 9pm, Friday, 1 May, BBC2 • This article was amended on 30 April 2015 to adjust the approximate amount of time it takes to drive between Hella and Reykjavik.
  • (18) Weather, scenery, customer service, food: all worse.
  • (19) Austin, a music teacher from Northumberland, moved here 24 years ago because "all the things I thought important in life seemed to be here: beautiful scenery, no pollution, clean water and kind of authentic, old-fashioned life-style."
  • (20) It charts the growing interest in the scenery of the Lakes and in the Romantic sensibility.

Vista


Definition:

  • (n.) A view; especially, a view through or between intervening objects, as trees; a view or prospect through an avenue, or the like; hence, the trees or other objects that form the avenue.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Those along the Atlantic coast fear their relatively untouched vistas will be next.
  • (2) One response to the Isla Vista rampage is a California law, AB 1014, that allows family members and law enforcement to petition a court to remove guns from the possession of someone who may be a risk to others.
  • (3) Such a comprehensive treatment of TIN opens up new vistas in the prophylaxis and therapy of this illness.
  • (4) Over the years he has played with famous musicians including John Williams, Robert Mitchell and Jools Holland, and been asked to jam with Ruben Gonzalez, the Cuban pianist who was a member of the Buena Vista Social Club.
  • (5) The Nobel Laureate and ex-director of Fermilab, Leon Lederman, described superconductivity as "the elixir to rejuvenate accelerators and open new vistas to the future".
  • (6) Hollywood studios and TV producers have long been pleading for the right to use drones, which are seen as opening up vast new vistas for dramatic filming at relatively cheap cost.
  • (7) From her eighth-floor corner-flat above Jarrow town centre, Lynda Rand has a stunning river vista from North Shields to Byker.
  • (8) May wasn’t emeralds; it was the massacre of six people in Isla Vista , California, by a young misogynist and the birth of #YesAllWomen, perhaps the most catalytic in a year of powerful protests online about women and violence.
  • (9) These two pieces of knowledge about basic viral architecture appear to open new vistas for reasoned synthesis of antiviral drugs, and some promising compounds are now under investigation.
  • (10) It’s an eerie setting in many ways, a limitless vista of futuristic visions and broken dreams, of soaring ambition and once-modern flying machines brought sadly back down to earth.
  • (11) He created his own title sequence for the new series of Doctor Who , complete with Peter Capaldi, a spinning Tardis, intergalactic vistas, and an eye-catching swoop through the gears of a clock.
  • (12) For the best vista, request a room on a higher floor overlooking the back of the city’s Metropolitan Cathedral , or simply have a drink on the top-floor roof deck.
  • (13) The enormous advances in understanding brought forth by the extensive research and writings of Professor Brodal and his colleagues have expanded our horizons to avail us of an enormous range of new vistas into cerebellar functional morphology.
  • (14) Walk straight up the hill to Summit Avenue, which clings to the ridgeline of the Hudson Palisades, however, and the vista of the Manhattan skyline is totally brilliant, gorgeous and huge.
  • (15) "We are living a very important moment in Brazilian democracy, with the growth of female participation in politics and other types of power, which is a fundamental move forward to equal rights," said Teresa Surita, whose win in Boa Vista has made her the first Brazilian women to win a fourth term as mayor.
  • (16) Learning the state fire agency had designated their area of Meadow Vista as a high-risk area, because of the drought and a thick brush cover that could easily catch fire from a stray spark, brought those fears to life.
  • (17) The vistas that greet travellers are quite the opposite: Robinson Crusoe islands of swaying palms and snow-soft sand, shimmering azure waters and coral reefs teeming with tropical life.
  • (18) New vistas are opened by the modulation of immunological reactivity by cyclic nucleotides.
  • (19) The 22-year-old student killed six people and injured 13 more when he went on a gun and knife rampage in the college town of Isla Vista, southern California, and he detailed his rage and murderous plans in the 141-page document.
  • (20) Joana Moura, the head of the union of Roraima penal workers, told the Folha de Boa Vista newspaper that the incident was “a reflection of the lack of interest from the state government” towards the prison system.