scene
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
scene/siːn/
▶noun
- 1 the place where an incident in real life or fiction occurs or occurred.
■ a landscape.
■ a representation of an incident, or the incident itself: scenes of 1930s America.
- 2 a sequence of continuous action in a play, film, opera, etc.
■ a subdivision of an act in a play, in which the time is continuous and the setting fixed.
■ the pieces of scenery used in a play or opera.
- 3 a public display of emotion or anger.
- 4 a specified area of activity or interest.
■ (usu. the scene) informal a social environment frequented by homosexuals.
– phrases
behind the scenes out of public view.
change of scene a move to different surroundings.
come (or appear or arrive) on the scene arrive; appear.
hit (or US make) the scene arrive; appear.
not one's scene informal not something one enjoys or is interested in.
behind the scenes out of public view.
change of scene a move to different surroundings.
come (or appear or arrive) on the scene arrive; appear.
hit (or US make) the scene arrive; appear.
not one's scene informal not something one enjoys or is interested in.
– origin C16: from L. scena, from Gk skēnē ‘tent, stage’.
'scene' also found in these Oxford entries:
backdrop
- background
- bear garden
- bedlam
- body bag
- circus
- crèche
- curtain
- cut-in
- cyclorama
- diorama
- dissolve
- double vision
- dreamscape
- drop scene
- ensemble
- exterior
- extra
- first responder
- flashback
- freewheel
- idyll
- jumpcut
- list
- lo
- madhouse
- marathon
- mise en scène
- myriad
- nocturne
- out-take
- pageant
- pike
- pop-up
- prologue
- reflex camera
- reshoot
- retake
- roofscape
- -scape
- scena
- scenario
- scene dock
- scenester
- screenplay
- segue
- set
- shoot
- sketch
