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• SCENE (Fr. scene, Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a tent or booth, a stage or scene)

SCENE (Fr. scene, See also:

• LAT

Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a See also:

• TENT

tent or See also:

• BOOTH (connected with a Teutonic root meaning to dwell, whence also " bower ")
• BOOTH, BARTON (1681–1933)
• BOOTH, CHARLES (184o– )
• BOOTH, EDWIN [THOMAS] (1833–1893)

booth, a See also:

• STAGE (Fr. 6/age; from Lat. stare, to stand)

stage or scene)  , a word of which the various applications, figurative or otherwise, are derived from its See also:

• ORIGINAL

original meaning of the See also:

• STAGE (Fr. 6/age; from Lat. stare, to stand)

stage or See also:

• PLATFORM (Fr. plateforme, i.e. ground plan)

platform in the See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek or See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

• THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

theatre together with the structure that formed the background . Thus " See also:

• SCENE (Fr. scene, Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a tent or booth, a stage or scene)

scene " was formerly used, as " stage " is to-See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day, of the actor's profession or of dramatic See also:

• ART

art; and of the actual performance or See also:

• REPRESENTATION

representation on the stage, still surviving in such phrases as " the scene opens " or " closes." It is also applied, actually and figuratively, to the See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place where the See also:

• ACTION

action of a See also:

• PLAY

play or any See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of events take place, and so of any See also:

• EPISODE

episode or situation in a novel or other narrative or description of events; from this the transition to an excited or violent See also:

• EXHIBITION

exhibition of feeling between two or more persons is easy . Of the specific applications of the word to the See also:

• DRAMA (literally "action," from Gr. Snail, act or do)

drama the See also:

• MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
• MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

main examples are (I) to a See also:

• DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division of the play, marked by the fall of the See also:

• CURTAIN

curtain, the " scene " being a subdivision of an " See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act," where the play is thus divided, or where there are no acts, of the divisions themselves; (2) to the material which forms the view of the place where the action is supposed to occur, that is, the painted cloths, slides and other apparatus, known as the " scenery,' a word which has thus been transferred to a view generally, the See also:

• APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance of the feature of a natural landscape . Allied words are " scena," used only in See also:

• MUSIC

music, of a See also:

• COMPOSITION
• COMPOSITION (Lat. compositio, from componere, to put together)

composition consisting mainly of recitative with See also:

• ACCOMPANIMENT (i.e. that which " accompanies ")

accompaniment, forming See also:

• PART

part of an See also:

• OPERA (Italian for " work ")

opera or as an individual composition; and " scenario," a full outline of a play or opera, giving details of the acts, scenes, actors, situations, stage-business, &c .