scene

(noun, verb)

noun

1. the place where some action occurs

- the police returned to the scene of the crime

Definition categories: location, area, country

2. an incident (real or imaginary)

- their parting was a sad scene

Definition categories: event, incident

3. the visual percept of a region

Similar word(s): aspect, panorama, prospect, view, vista

Definition categories: thought

4. a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film

Similar word(s): shot

Definition categories: communication, exposure, photo, photograph, pic, picture

5. a situation treated as an observable object

- the religious scene in England has changed in the last century

Similar word(s): picture

Definition categories: state, situation

6. a subdivision of an act of a play

- the first act has three scenes

Definition categories: communication

7. a display of bad temper

- he made a scene

Similar word(s): conniption, fit, tantrum

Definition categories: state

8. graphic art consisting of the graphic or photographic representation of a visual percept

- he painted scenes from everyday life

Similar word(s): view

Definition categories: man–made

9. the context and environment in which something is set

Similar word(s): setting

Definition categories: location, environment, environs, surround, surroundings

10. the painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale

- they worked all night painting the scenery

Similar word(s): scenery

Definition categories: man–made, set

Sentences with scene as a noun:

- the scene of the crime

- They stood in the centre of the scene.

- The play is divided into three acts, and in total twenty-five scenes.

- The most moving scene is the final one, where he realizes he has wasted his whole life.

- He assessed the scene to check for any danger, and agreed it was safe.

- They saw an angry scene outside the pub.

- The crazy lady made a scene in the grocery store.

- She got into the emo scene at an early age.

verb

1. To exhibit as a scene; to make a scene of; to display.