Noun

(en noun)

The location of an event that attracts attention.

the scene of the crime

(theater) The structure on which a spectacle or play is exhibited; the part of a theater in which the acting is done, with its adjuncts and decorations; the stage.

They stood in the centre of the scene .

The decorations and fittings of a stage, representing the place in which the action is supposed to go on; one of the slides, or other devices, used to give an appearance of reality to the action of a play; as, to paint scenes; to shift the scenes; to go behind the scenes.

So much of a play as passes without change of locality or time, or important change of character; hence, a subdivision of an act; a separate portion of a play, subordinate to the act, but differently determined in different plays; as, an act of four scenes.

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The play is divided into three acts, and in total twenty-five scenes .

The most moving scene is the final one, where he realizes he has wasted his whole life.

There were some very erotic scenes in the movie, although it was not classified as pornography.

The place, time, circumstance, etc., in which anything occurs, or in which the action of a story, play, or the like, is laid; surroundings amid which anything is set before the imagination; place of occurrence, exhibition, or action.

* Shakespeare

In Troy, there lies the scene .

* J. M. Mason

The world is a vast scene of strife.

An assemblage of objects presented to the view at once; a series of actions and events exhibited in their connection; a spectacle; a show; an exhibition; a view.

He assessed the scene to check for any danger, and agreed it was safe.

* Addison

Through what new scenes and changes must we pass!

A landscape, or part of a landscape; scenery.

* Dryden

A sylvan scene with various greens was drawn, / Shades on the sides, and in the midst a lawn.

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, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , 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; make, create, cause a scene .

They saw an angry scene outside the pub.

''The crazy lady made a scene in the grocery store.

* De Quincey

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.

A social environment consisting of an informal, vague group of people with a uniting interest; their sphere of activity; a subculture.

She got into the emo scene at an early age.

Noun

(en noun)

A broad, shallow injury left by scraping (rather than a cut or a scratch).

He fell on the sidewalk and got a scrape on his knee.

A fight, especially a fistfight without weapons.

He got in a scrape with the school bully.

An awkward set of circumstances.

I'm in a bit of a scrape — I've no money to buy my wife a birthday present.

(British, slang) A D and C or abortion; or, a miscarriage.

* 1972, in U.S. Senate Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws, Abuse of psychiatry for political repression in the Soviet Union. Hearing, Ninety-second Congress, second session , United States Government Printing Office, page 127,

It’s quite possible, in view of the diagnosis ‘danger of miscarriage’, that they might drag me off, give me a scrape and then say that the miscarriage began itself.

* 1980, John Cobb, Babyshock: A Mother’s First Five Years , Hutchinson, page 232,

In expert hands abortion nowadays is almost the same as having a scrape (D & C) and due to improved techniques such as suction termination, and improved lighter anaesthetic, most women feel no worse than having a tooth out.

* 1985, Beverley Raphael, The Anatomy of Bereavement: a handbook for the caring professions , Routledge, ISBN 0415094542, page 236,

The loss is significant to the woman and will be stated as such by her. For her it is not “nothing,” “just a scrape ,” or “not a life.” It is the beginning of a baby. Years later, she may recall it not just as a miscarriage but also as a baby that was lost.

* 1999, David Jenkins, Listening to Gynaecological Patients\ Problems , Springer, ISBN 1852331097, page 16,

17.Have you had a scrape or curettage recently?

A shallow depression used by ground birds as a nest; a nest scrape.

* 1948, in Behaviour: An International Journal of Comparative Ethology , E. J. Brill, page 103,

We knew from U. Weidmann’s work (1956) that Black-headed Gulls could be prevented from laying by offering them eggs on the empty scrape veil before […]

* 2000, Charles A. Taylor, The Kingfisher Science Encyclopedia , Kingfisher Publications, ISBN 0753452693, page 85,

The plover lays its eggs in a scrape' on the ground. ¶ […] ¶ Birds’ nests can be little more than a ' scrape in the ground or a delicate structure of plant material, mud, and saliva.

* 2006, Les Beletsky, Birds of the World , Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN 0801884292, page 95,

Turkey females place their eggs in a shallow scrape in a hidden spot on the ground. Young are born ready to leave the nest and feed themselves (eating insects for their first few weeks).