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scene | American Dictionary

scene
noun
us/sin/

scenenoun (PLAY/MOVIE)

[ C ]
a part of a play or movie in which the action stays in one place for a continuous period:
The opening scene of the movie was filmed in New York City.

scenenoun (VIEW)

[ C ]
a view or picture of a place:
The scene from the mountaintop was breathtaking.
He painted a street scene.

scenenoun (PLACE)

[ Cusually sing ]
a place where an actual or imagined event happens:
He was convicted of leaving the scene of an accident.
Dozens of firefighters converged on the scene (= they arrived at the place quickly).

scenenoun (EVENT)

[ C ]
an event, actual or imaginary:
The novel recalls scenes from an era that's vanished.

scenenoun (AREA)

[ U ]
a particular area of activity or way of life:
the fashion/music scene
He disappeared from the political scene after failing to win reelection.

scenenoun (SHOW)

[ C ]
a show of emotion or anger:
She made a scene at the checkout when I wouldn’t buy her any candy.

Examples of scene

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The video then returned to the scene depicting the remaining three located objects and the puppet then removed and relocated one of these objects.
An occluding window was placed around each scene, thus exposing an area and occluding the surrounding space.
In the monitor panel, users can observe different floor scenes, see the robots' positions and velocities, and receive the data from the virtual sensors.
A separate control experiment was undertaken in which the position of the test surface in the scene was changed.
You lack, as we shall say, visual awareness of many of the aspects of the visual scene.
Sometimes a scene performed in silence can be more effective than one spoken.
However, such pressure ultimately prevailed and the scene was set for multipartyism.
Before really tackling the issues of longrange planning strategies, in chapter 7, the author sets the scene in the first five chapters.
The series was a blend of traditional studio scenes and location filming, which was no longer a luxury for special occasions.
When this music reappears in the orchestra during the opera's critical closing scene, the quieter undertones of its significance become audible.
Errors were defined as any utterance that referred to an object or objects not in the scene.
This scene falls into a kind of modified double-aria form, in which the dramatically kinetic sections are greatly expanded.
We become more aware of authorial expertise on a variety of subjects rather than a deeply observed or dramatically cogent scene.
The subjects directly looked down at the scenes, which were arranged either on tabletops or the floor.
The scene cuts from his bedside to what is evidently a flashback - some kind of traumatic memory is returning to his (altered) consciousness.
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Collocations withscene

scene

These are words often used in combination with scene.

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battle scene
There is, for example, no battle scene.
closing scene
This closingscene is a strange moment for several reasons.
club scene
Her focus was on the clubscene at the time and her work was wildly eclectic.
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