Wiktionary

scene: difference between revisions

Browse history interactively
← Go to previous edit
Content deleted Content added
VisualWikitext
Seoovslfmo (talk | contribs)
1,406 edits
No edit summary
→‎Noun: full stops; example request; →‎Translations: match glosses to senses
 
(17 intermediate revisions by 11 users not shown)
Line 7:
 
===Etymology===
From {{bor|en|frm|scene}}, from {{der|en|la|scaena}}, {{m|la|scēna}}, from {{der|en|grc|σκηνή||scene, stage}}. {{doublet|en|scena|skene}}.
 
===Pronunciation===
* {{enPR|sēn}}, {{IPA|en|/siːn/}}
* {{audio|en|en-us-scene.ogg|Audio (a=US)}}
* {{homophones|en|seen}}
* {{rhymes|en|iːn|s=1}}
Line 22:
# {{senseid|en|theater}} {{lb|en|archaic|theater}} The [[stage]].
#: {{ux|en|They stood in the centre of the '''scene'''.}}
# {{lb|en|theatre}} The [[decoration]]s; [[furnishing]]s and [[background]]s of a stage, representing the place in which the action of a play is set.
#: {{ux|en|to paint '''scenes'''}}
#: {{ux|en|to change the '''scenes'''}}
Line 30:
#: {{ux|en|The most moving '''scene''' is the final one, where he realizes he has wasted his whole life.}}
#: {{ux|en|There were some very erotic '''scenes''' in the movie, although it was not classified as pornography.}}
#* {{RQ:Orczy Miss Elliott|chapter=The Affair at the Novelty Theatre|passage=Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent '''scene''' which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.}}▼
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1905|author=[[w:Emma Orczy|Baroness Emmuska Orczy]]
# The location, time, circumstances, etc., in which something occurs, or in which the action of a story, play, or the like, is set up.▼
|title=[[w:The Case of Miss Elliott|The Affair at the Novelty Theatre]]
|chapter=2|url=http://openlibrary.org/works/OL8479084W
▲|passage=Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent '''scene''' which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.}}
▲# The location, time, circumstances, etc., in which something occurs, or in which the action of a story, play, or the like, is set up
#* {{RQ:Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida|I|prologue|passage=In Troy, there lies the '''scene'''.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=c. 1810|author=w:John M. Mason|title=On Religious Controversy
Line 45 ⟶ 42:
#* {{RQ:Dryden Virgil|Palamon and Arcite
|passage=A sylvan '''scene''' with various greens was drawn, / Shades on the sides, and in the midst a lawn.}}
#* {{RQ:Allingham China Governess|chapter=Foreword|passage=He turned back to the '''scene''' before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.}}▼
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1963|author=w:Margery Allingham
# An exhibition of passionate or strong feeling before others, creating embarrassment or disruption; often, an artificial or affected action, or course of action, done for effect; a [[theatrical]] display.▼
|title=w:The China Governess
|chapter=Foreword|url=http://openlibrary.org/works/OL2004261W
▲|passage=He turned back to the '''scene''' before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.}}
▲# An exhibition of passionate or strong feeling before others, creating embarrassment or disruption; often, an artificial or affected action, or course of action, done for effect; a [[theatrical]] display
#: {{ux|en|The headmistress told the students not to cause a '''scene'''.}}
#: {{ux|en|The crazy lady made a '''scene''' in the grocery store.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1832|author=w:Thomas De Quincey|title=Kolsterheim
|passage=Probably no lover of '''scenes''' would have had very long to wait or some explosions between parties, both equally ready to take offence, and careless of giving it.}}
# An element of [[fiction]] writing. {{rfex|en}}
# A social environment consisting of an informal, vague group of people with a uniting interest; their sphere of activity; a [[subculture]].
#: {{ux|en|She got into the emo '''scene''' at an early age.}}
#: {{ux|en|Indie just isn't my '''scene'''.}}
# A youth subculture popular in the [[Anglosphere]] in the 2000s and early 2010s. {{slim-wikipedia|Scene (subculture)}}
# {{lb|en|BDSM}} A BDSM fantasy that is acted out.
 
====Derived terms====
Line 83 ⟶ 78:
====Translations====
{{trans-top|the location of an event that attracts attention}}
* Antillean Creole: {{t|gcf|senn|f}}
* Arabic: {{t|ar|مَنْظَر|m}}, {{t|ar|مَشْهَد|m}}
* Azerbaijani: {{t|az|səhnə}}
Line 98 ⟶ 94:
* German: {{t+|de|Szene|f}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|σκηνή|f}}
* Haitian Creole: {{t|ht|sèn|f}}
* Hebrew: {{t+|he|סְצֵנָה|f|tr=stséna}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|szín}}, {{t+|hu|színhely}}
Line 127 ⟶ 124:
{{trans-bottom}}
 
{{trans-see|(''archaic, theater'') the stage|stage}}
 
{{trans-top-also|(''theater'') decorations, furnishing and fittingsbackgrounds of a stage|decor}}
* Azerbaijani: {{t|az|səhnə}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|деко́р|m}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|kulissi}}
* French: {{t+|fr|scène|f}}
* Indonesian: {{t+|id|panggung}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|сце́на|f}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|scen|c}}, {{t+|sv|sceneri|n}}
{{trans-bottom}}
 
{{trans-top|(''theater, film, television, radio'') part of a dramatic work that is set in the same place or time}}
{{trans-top|subdivision of an act}}
* Armenian: {{t+|hy|տեսարան}}
* Azerbaijani: {{t|az|səhnə}}
Line 144 ⟶ 142:
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|kohtaus}}
* French: {{t+|fr|scène|f}}
* Indonesian: {{t+|id|adegan}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|シーン|tr=shīn}}
* Malay: {{t+|ms|adegan}}, {{t+|ms|babak}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|kāpeka}}, {{t|mi|papātanga}}
Line 149:
* Spanish: {{t+|es|escena|f}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|scen|c}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|сце́на|f}}
{{trans-bottom}}
 
{{trans-top|placelocation, time, circumstance, etc., in which anythingsomething occurs}}
* Arabic: {{t|ar|مَشْهَد|m}}
* Chinese:
Line 162 ⟶ 163:
{{trans-bottom}}
 
{{trans-top|assemblagecombination of objects presentedor toevents thein view or happening at oncea given moment at a particular place}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|карти́на|f}}, {{t+|bg|пейза́ж|m}}
{{trans-bottom}}
Line 180 ⟶ 181:
{{trans-bottom}}
 
{{trans-top|large informal, vague group of people with a uniting interest}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|skene}}
* French: {{t+|fr|scène|f}}
* Indonesian: {{t+|id|belantika}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|scena|f}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|scen|c}}
Line 225 ⟶ 227:
{{da-noun|n|r}}
 
# {{l|en|[[stage}}]] {{q|platform for performing in a theatre}} {{topicsC|da|Theater}}
# {{l|en|scene}} {{q|section of a film or a play}}
# {{l|en|scene}} {{q|a setting or a behaviour}}
Line 250 ⟶ 252:
 
===Etymology===
First known attestation 1486,<ref>{{R:Godefroy|supplement=1}}</ref>, borrowed from {{bor|frm|la|scaena}}.<ref>{{R:fr:TLFi|etym=1}}</ref>.
 
===Noun===
Line 264 ⟶ 266:
 
===Alternative forms===
* {{lalt|nb|sene}}
 
===Etymology===
Line 272 ⟶ 274:
{{nb-noun-m1}}
 
# a {{l|en|[[stage}}]] (''in a theatre'') {{topicsC|nb|Theater}}
# a {{l|en|scene}} (''in a film or play'')
 
Line 285 ⟶ 287:
 
===Alternative forms===
* {{lalt|nn|sene}}
 
===Etymology===
Line 294 ⟶ 296:
{{nn-noun-f2}}
 
# a {{l|en|[[stage}}]] (''in a theatre'') {{topicsC|nn|Theater}}
# a {{l|en|scene}} (''in a film or play'')
 
Line 312 ⟶ 314:
 
===Adjective===
{{ang-adj|sċēne}} {{tlb|ang|Anglian}}
 
# {{alternative form of|ang|sċīene}}
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scene"