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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



... A merry laugh rang out after him, and in the looking-glass which he was passing at that instant, the following scene was reflected: Maria Nikolaevna had pulled her husband's fez over his eyes, and he was helplessly struggling ...
— The Torrents of Spring • Ivan Turgenev
... borne; then the youths are counted as full-grown. (2) In the next stage the art of dancing is practiced, by each sex separately, during the day. (3) In the final stage, which is that of complete sexual initiation, the two sexes dance together by night; the scene, in the opinion of the good missionary, "does not bear description;" the initiated are now complete adults, with all the privileges and responsibilities of adults (Rev. E. Gottschling, "The Bawenda," ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis
... a neighbouring shop the whole Press of Paris appeared to be on sale. In the middle of the roadway a strange miscellany of nations sauntered to and fro, for there cab and hansom rarely ventured; and from window over window the inhabitants looked forth in pleased contemplation of the scene. Dyson made his way slowly along, mingling with the crowd on the cobble-stones, listening to the queer babel of French and German, and Italian and English, glancing now and again at the shop-windows ...
— The House of Souls • Arthur Machen
... strangest characteristics of criminals is the tendency to express their ideas pictorially. While in prison, Troppmann painted the scene of his misdeed, for the purpose of showing that it had been committed by others. We have already mentioned the rude illustrations engraved by the murderer Cavaglia on his pitcher, representing his crime, imprisonment, and suicide. ...
— Criminal Man - According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso • Gina Lombroso-Ferrero
... on the engines and on the red runabouts that brought two battalion chiefs to the fire; the pall of smoke, with, here and there, the suggestion of a red blaze; the swaying excitement of the crowd; the yells of harassed policemen; the scene at the blaze of the dime museum was one long to be remembered by Joe Strong and Helen Morton—particularly in the light of ...
— Joe Strong The Boy Fire-Eater - The Most Dangerous Performance on Record • Vance Barnum


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