Backdrop vs Scenario - What's the difference?
backdrop | scenario |
A decorated cloth hung at the back of a stage.
The setting or background of a historical event.
* {{quote-news, year=2012
, date=May 9
, author=John Percy
, title=Birmingham City 2 Blackpool 2 (2-3 on agg): match report
, work=the Telegraph
To serve as a backdrop for.
An outline of the plot of a dramatic or literary work.
A screenplay itself, or an outline or a treatment of it.
An outline or model of an expected or supposed sequence of events.
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=August 23
, author=Alasdair Lamont
, title=Hearts 0-1 Liverpool
, work=BBC Sport
As nouns the difference between backdrop and scenario
is that backdrop is a decorated cloth hung at the back of a stage while scenario is .As a verb backdrop
is to serve as a backdrop for.backdrop
English
Noun
(en noun)- The president spoke outside the brick exterior of the firehouse for Ladder Company 10 and Engine Company 10, against the backdrop of a 56-foot-long bronze bas-relief depicting the towers in flames. —
New York Times
citation, page= , passage=Blackpool’s aggregate victory ensures Birmingham are now preparing for a potential summer of change. Manager Chris Hughton has been operating against a backdrop of financial uncertainty all season and last night Peter Pannu, the vice-chairman, announced that the club’s accounts would finally be published next week, and that a new investor had been identified.}}
Verb
(backdropp)- a brilliant sunset backdropping the famous skyline
Anagrams
*scenario
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=Hearts were keen to avoid a repeat of the scenario at this stage of last season's competition, when they found themselves two goals down inside the opening quarter of an hour.}}
