sceneとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle French scene, from Latin scaena, scēna, from Ancient Greek σκηνή (skēnḗ, “scene, stage”). Doublet of scena.

発音

• enPR: sēn, IPA^(key): /siːn/
• Homophone: seen
• 韻: -iːn

名詞

scene (複数形 scenes)

1. The location of an event that attracts attention.

   the scene of the crime

3. (archaic, theater) the stage.

   They stood in the centre of the scene.

4. (theater) The decorations; furnishings and backgrounds of a stage, representing the place in which the action of a play is set

   to paint scenes

   to change the scenes

   behind the scenes

5. (theater, film, television, radio) A part of a dramatic work that is set in the same place or time. In the theatre, generally a number of scenes constitute an act.
   • 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, in The Affair at the Novelty Theatre‎^[1]:

     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.

6. The location, time, circumstances, etc., in which something occurs, or in which the action of a story, play, or the like, is set up
   • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene prologue]:

     In Troy, there lies the scene.

   • c. 1810, John M. Mason, On Religious Controversy

     The world is a vast scene of strife.

7. A combination of objects or events in view or happening at a given moment at a particular place.

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

   They saw an angry scene outside the pub.

   • 1713, Joseph Addison, Cato, published 1712, [Act 5, scene 1]:

     Through what new scenes and changes must we pass!

8. A landscape, or part of a landscape; scenery.
   • 1697, “Palamon and Arcite”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432:

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

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess‎^[2]:

     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.

9. 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

   The headmistress told the students not to cause a scene.

   The crazy lady made a scene in the grocery store.

   • 1832, Thomas De Quincey, Kolsterheim

     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.

10. An element of fiction writing.
11. 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.

派生語

参考

• proscenium

動詞

scene (三人称単数 現在形 scenes, 現在分詞 scening, 過去形および過去分詞形 scened)

1. (transitive) To exhibit as a scene; to make a scene of; to display.

アナグラム

• cenes, cense, sence

語源

From Proto-West Germanic *skaunī, from Proto-Germanic *skauniz.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃeː.ne/

形容詞

sċēne

1. Alternative form of sċīene

語形変化