Dictionary entry details
• SCENE (noun)
Meaning:
The place where some action occurs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Context example:
the police returned to the scene of the crime
Hypernyms ("scene" is a kind of...):
area; country (a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scene"):
light (an illuminated area)
dark; darkness; shadow (an unilluminated area)
field of honor (the scene of a duel)
stage (any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something)
locale; locus; venue (the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting))
Meaning:
An incident (real or imaginary)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Context example:
their parting was a sad scene
Hypernyms ("scene" is a kind of...):
incident (a single distinct event)
Meaning:
The visual percept of a region
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
vista; panorama; view; scene; aspect; prospect
Context example:
the most desirable feature of the park are the beautiful views
Hypernyms ("scene" is a kind of...):
visual image; visual percept (a percept that arises from the eyes; an image in the visual system)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scene"):
tableau (any dramatic scene)
side view (a view from the side of something)
middle distance (the part of a scene between the foreground and the background)
glimpse (a brief or incomplete view)
foreground (the part of a scene that is near the viewer)
exposure (aspect re light or wind)
coast (the area within view)
background; ground (the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground)
Meaning:
A consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
scene; shot
Hypernyms ("scene" is a kind of...):
exposure; photo; photograph; pic (a picture of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scene"):
outtake (a scene that is filmed but is not used in the final editing of the film)
Holonyms ("scene" is a part of...):
film; flick; motion picture; motion-picture show; movie; moving picture; moving-picture show; pic; picture; picture show (a form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement)
Meaning:
A situation treated as an observable object
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
picture; scene
Context examples:
the political picture is favorable / the religious scene in England has changed in the last century
Hypernyms ("scene" is a kind of...):
situation; state of affairs (the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time)
Meaning:
A subdivision of an act of a play
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Context example:
the first act has three scenes
Hypernyms ("scene" is a kind of...):
dramatic composition; dramatic work (a play for performance on the stage or television or in a movie etc.)
Holonyms ("scene" is a part of...):
act (a subdivision of a play or opera or ballet)
Meaning:
A display of bad temper
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
conniption; fit; tantrum; scene
Context examples:
he had a fit / she threw a tantrum / he made a scene
Hypernyms ("scene" is a kind of...):
bad temper; ill temper (a persisting angry mood)
Meaning:
Graphic art consisting of the graphic or photographic representation of a visual percept
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
scene; view
Context examples:
he painted scenes from everyday life / figure 2 shows photographic and schematic views of the equipment
Hypernyms ("scene" is a kind of...):
graphic art (the arts of drawing or painting or printmaking)
Meronyms (parts of "scene"):
content; depicted object; subject (something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation)
Meaning:
The context and environment in which something is set
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
setting; scene
Context example:
the perfect setting for a ghost story
Hypernyms ("scene" is a kind of...):
environment; environs; surround; surroundings (the area in which something exists or lives)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scene"):
scenario (a setting for a work of art or literature)
Meaning:
The painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
scenery; scene
Context example:
they worked all night painting the scenery
Hypernyms ("scene" is a kind of...):
set; stage set (representation consisting of the scenery and other properties used to identify the location of a dramatic production)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scene"):
backcloth; backdrop; background (scenery hung at back of stage)
flat (scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting)
masking; masking piece (scenery used to block the audience's view of parts of the stage that should not be seen)
set piece (a piece of scenery intended to stand alone as part of the stage setting)
