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- Scene - n. - 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.
- Scene - n. - 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.
- Scene - n. - 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.
- Scene - n. - 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.
- Scene - n. - 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.
- Scene - n. - A landscape, or part of a landscape; scenery.
- Scene - n. - An exhibition of passionate or strong feeling before others; often, an artifical or affected action, or course of action, done for effect; a theatrical display.
- Scene - v. t. - To exhibit as a scene; to make a scene of; to display.
- Sceneful - a. - Having much scenery.
- Sceneman - n. - The man who manages the movable scenes in a theater.
- Scenemen - pl. - of Sceneman
- Scenery - n. - Assemblage of scenes; the paintings and hangings representing the scenes of a play; the disposition and arrangement of the scenes in which the action of a play, poem, etc., is laid; representation of place of action or occurence.
- Scenery - n. - Sum of scenes or views; general aspect, as regards variety and beauty or the reverse, in a landscape; combination of natural views, as woods, hills, etc.
- Sceneshifter - n. - One who moves the scenes in a theater; a sceneman.
- Stage - n. - A place where anything is publicly exhibited; the scene of any noted action or carrer; the spot where any remarkable affair occurs.
- Scena - n. - A scene in an opera.
- Picturesque - a. - Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture; representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate to a picture; expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial; graphic; vivid; as, a picturesque scene or attitude; picturesque language.
- Foreground - n. - On a painting, and sometimes in a bas-relief, mosaic picture, or the like, that part of the scene represented, which is nearest to the spectator, and therefore occupies the lowest part of the work of art itself. Cf. Distance, n., 6.
- Ballet - n. - An artistic dance performed as a theatrical entertainment, or an interlude, by a number of persons, usually women. Sometimes, a scene accompanied by pantomime and dancing.
- Delineation - n. - The act of representing, portraying, or describing, as by lines, diagrams, sketches, etc.; drawing an outline; as, the delineation of a scene or face; in drawing and engraving, representation by means of lines, as distinguished from representation by means of tints and shades; accurate and minute representation, as distinguished from art that is careless of details, or subordinates them excessively.
- World - n. - Any planet or heavenly body, especially when considered as inhabited, and as the scene of interests analogous with human interests; as, a plurality of worlds.
- Bambocciade - n. - A representation of a grotesque scene from common or rustic life.
- Transient - a. - Passing before the sight or perception, or, as it were, moving over or across a space or scene viewed, and then disappearing; hence, of short duration; not permanent; not lasting or durable; not stationary; passing; fleeting; brief; transitory; as, transient pleasure.
- Arcadia - n. - Fig.: Any region or scene of simple pleasure and untroubled quiet.
- Scene - v. t. - To exhibit as a scene; to make a scene of; to display.
- Sketch - n. - An outline or general delineation of anything; a first rough or incomplete draught or plan of any design; especially, in the fine arts, such a representation of an object or scene as serves the artist's purpose by recording its chief features; also, a preliminary study for an original work.
- Prospective - n. - The scene before or around, in time or in space; view; prospect.
- Roundabout - n. - A state or scene of constant change, or of recurring labor and vicissitude.
- Render - v. t. - To interpret; to set forth, represent, or exhibit; as, an actor renders his part poorly; a singer renders a passage of music with great effect; a painter renders a scene in a felicitous manner.
- Finale - n. - The closing part, piece, or scene in any public performance or exhibition.
- Landscape - n. - A picture representing a scene by land or sea, actual or fancied, the chief subject being the general aspect of nature, as fields, hills, forests, water. etc.
- Seapiece - n. - A picture representing a scene at sea; a marine picture.
- Melodrama - n. - Formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks; as, the melodrama in the gravedigging scene of Beethoven's "Fidelio".
- Babel - n. - Hence: A place or scene of noise and confusion; a confused mixture of sounds, as of voices or languages.
- World - n. - In a more restricted sense, that part of the earth and its concerns which is known to any one, or contemplated by any one; a division of the globe, or of its inhabitants; human affairs as seen from a certain position, or from a given point of view; also, state of existence; scene of life and action; as, the Old World; the New World; the religious world; the Catholic world; the upper world; the future world; the heathen world.
- Tableau - n. - A representation of some scene by means of persons grouped in the proper manner, placed in appropriate postures, and remaining silent and motionless.
- Fighting - a. - Occupied in war; being the scene of a battle; as, a fighting field.
- Distemper - v. t. - A preparation of opaque or body colors, in which the pigments are tempered or diluted with weak glue or size (cf. Tempera) instead of oil, usually for scene painting, or for walls and ceilings of rooms.
- Rich - superl. - Abounding in humor; exciting amusement; entertaining; as, the scene was a rich one; a rich incident or character.
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- H461 אֱלִיעֶזֶר - 461 אֱלִיעֶזֶר - אֱלִיעֶזֶר - - ʼĔlîyʻezer - el-ee-eh'-zer - from אֵל and עֵזֶר; God of help; Eliezer, the name of a Damascene and of ten Israelites; Eliezer. - Proper Name Masculine - x-pn
- G1153 Δαμασκηνός - 1153 Δαμασκηνός - ΔΑΜΑΣΚΗΝΌΣ - - Damaskēnós - dam-as-kay-nos' - from Δαμασκός; a Damascene or inhabitant of Damascus:--Damascene. - Adjective - greek
- H5283 נַעֲמָן - 5283 נַעֲמָן - נַעֲמָן - - Naʻămân - nah-am-awn' - the same as נַעֲמָן; Naaman, the name of an Israelite and of a Damascene; Naaman. - Proper Name Masculine - x-pn
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