Season vs Scene - What's the difference?
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Each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn and winter; yeartide.
* Addison
A part of a year when something particular happens: mating season'', ''rainy season'', ''football season .
*
, title= (obsolete) That which gives relish; seasoning.
* 1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) ,
* 1605 , (Shakespeare), The Tragedy of Macbeth, III, 4
(cricket) The period over which a series of Test matches are played.
(North America, broadcasting) A group of episodes of a television or radio program broadcast in regular intervals with a long break between each group, usually with one year between the beginning of each.
(obsolete) An extended, undefined period of time.
* 1656 , , The Mortification of Sin
To flavour food with spices, herbs or salt.
To make fit for any use by time or habit; to habituate; to accustom; to inure; to ripen; to mature; as, to season one to a climate.
Hence, to prepare by drying or hardening, or removal of natural juices; as, to season timber.
To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.
To become dry and hard, by the escape of the natural juices, or by being penetrated with other substance; as, timber seasons in the sun.
(obsolete) To copulate with; to impregnate.
The location of an event that attracts attention.
(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.
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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, chapter=2 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
* J. M. Mason
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.
* Addison
A landscape, or part of a landscape; scenery.
* Dryden
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=Foreword 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 .
* De Quincey
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.
To exhibit as a scene; to make a scene of; to display.
As nouns the difference between season and scene
is that season is each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn and winter; yeartide while scene is scene, stage.As a verb season
is to flavour food with spices, herbs or salt.season
English
(wikipedia season)Noun
(en noun)- the several seasons of the year in their beauty
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season .}}
- O! she is fallen
- Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea
- Hath drops too few to wash her clean again,
- And salt too little which may season give
- To her foul-tainted flesh.
- You lack the season of all natures, sleep.
- The third season of ''Friends'' aired from 1996 to 1997.
- So it is in a person when a breach hath been made upon his conscience, quiet, perhaps credit, by his lust, in some eruption of actual sin; — carefulness, indignation, desire, fear, revenge are all set on work about it and against it, and lust is quiet for a season , being run down before them; but when the hurry is over and the inquest is past, the thief appears again alive, and is as busy as ever at his work.
Usage notes
In British English, a year-long group of episodes is called a series, whereas in North American English the word "series" is a synonym of "program" or "show".Synonyms
* (l) * (l)Derived terms
* end-of-season * high season * in season * low season * mating season * midseason * mid-season form * open season * out of season * rutting season * seasonable * seasonal * seasonally * silly season * unseasonally * unseasonable * unseasonablyVerb
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Anagrams
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English
(wikipedia scene)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- the scene of the crime
- They stood in the centre of the scene .
citation, 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 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.
- In Troy, there lies the scene .
- The world is a vast scene of strife.
- He assessed the scene to check for any danger, and agreed it was safe.
- Through what new scenes and changes must we pass!
- A sylvan scene with various greens was drawn, / Shades on the sides, and in the midst a lawn.
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.}}
- They saw an angry scene outside the pub.
- ''The crazy lady made a scene in the grocery store.
- 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.
- She got into the emo scene at an early age.