Scene vs. Sense — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Scene and Sense
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Scene
Something seen by a viewer; a view or prospect.
Sense
A sense is a biological system used by an organism for sensation, the process of gathering information about the world and responding to stimuli. (For example, in the human body, the brain receives signals from the senses, which continuously receive information from the environment, interprets these signals, and causes the body to respond, either chemically or physically.) Although traditionally around five human senses were known (namely sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing), it is now recognized that there are many more.
Scene
The place where an action or event occurs
The scene of the crime.
Sense
A faculty by which the body perceives an external stimulus; one of the faculties of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch
The bear has a keen sense of smell which enables it to hunt at dusk
Scene
The place in which the action of a play, movie, novel, or other narrative occurs; a setting.
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Sense
A feeling that something is the case
She had the sense of being a political outsider
You can improve your general health and sense of well-being
Scene
A subdivision of an act in a dramatic presentation in which the setting is fixed and the time continuous.
Sense
A sane and realistic attitude to situations and problems
He earned respect by the good sense he showed at meetings
Scene
A shot or series of shots in a movie constituting a unit of continuous related action.
Sense
A way in which an expression or a situation can be interpreted; a meaning
It is not clear which sense of the word ‘characters’ is intended in this passage
Scene
A section of a narrative in which the action is depicted through detail and dialogue as if it is occurring in real time
The editor felt the story had too much summary and suggested that the author add more scenes.
Sense
A property (e.g. direction of motion) distinguishing a pair of objects, quantities, effects, etc. which differ only in that each is the reverse of the other
The cord does not become straight, but forms a length of helix in the opposite sense
Scene
The scenery and properties for a dramatic presentation.
Sense
Perceive by a sense or senses
With the first frost, they could sense a change in the days
Scene
A theater stage.
Sense
(of a machine or similar device) detect
An optical fibre senses a current flowing in a conductor
Scene
A real or fictitious episode, especially when described.
Sense
Any of the faculties by which stimuli from outside or inside the body are received and felt, as the faculties of hearing, sight, smell, touch, taste, and equilibrium.
Scene
A public display of passion or temper
Tried not to make a scene.
Sense
A perception or feeling produced by a stimulus; sensation
A sense of fatigue and hunger.
Scene
A sphere of activity
Observers of the political scene.
Sense
Senses The faculties of sensation as means of providing physical gratification and pleasure.
Scene
(Slang) A situation or set of circumstances
A bad scene.
A wild scene.
Sense
An intuitive or acquired perception or ability to estimate
A sense of diplomatic timing.
Scene
The location of an event that attracts attention.
The scene of the crime
Sense
A capacity to appreciate or understand
A keen sense of humor.
Scene
The stage.
They stood in the centre of the scene.
Sense
A vague feeling or presentiment
A sense of impending doom.
Scene
(theatre) 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
Sense
Recognition or perception either through the senses or through the intellect; consciousness
Has no sense of shame.
Scene
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.
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.
Sense
Natural understanding or intelligence, especially in practical matters
The boy had sense and knew just what to do when he got lost.
Scene
The location, time, circumstances, etc., in which something occurs, or in which the action of a story, play, or the like, is set up
Sense
Often senses The normal ability to think or reason soundly
Have you taken leave of your senses?.
Scene
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.
Sense
Something sound or reasonable
There's no sense in waiting three hours.
Scene
A landscape, or part of a landscape; scenery.
Sense
A meaning that is conveyed, as in speech or writing; signification
The sense of the criticism is that the proposal has certain risks.
Scene
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.
Sense
One of the meanings of a word or phrase
The word set has many senses.
Scene
An element of fiction writing.
Sense
Judgment; consensus
Sounding out the sense of the electorate on capital punishment.
Scene
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.
Sense
Intellectual interpretation, as of the significance of an event or the conclusions reached by a group
I came away from the meeting with the sense that we had resolved all outstanding issues.
Scene
A youth subculture that was popular in Canada and the United States in the 2000s and early 2010s.
Sense
To become aware of; perceive
Organisms able to sense their surroundings.
Scene
(transitive) To exhibit as a scene; to make a scene of; to display.
Sense
To grasp; understand
Sensed that the financial situation would improve.
Scene
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.
Sense
To detect automatically
Sense radioactivity.
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.
Sense
(Genetics) Of or relating to the portion of the strand of double-stranded DNA that serves as a template for and is transcribed into RNA.
Scene
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.
My dismal scene I needs must act alone.
Sense
Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
Scene
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.
The world is a vast scene of strife.
Sense
Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.
A sense of security
Scene
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.
Through what new scenes and changes must we pass!
Sense
Sound practical or moral judgment.
It's common sense not to put metal objects in a microwave oven.
Scene
A landscape, or part of a landscape; scenery.
A sylvan scene with various greens was drawn,Shades on the sides, and in the midst a lawn.
Sense
The meaning, reason, or value of something.
You don’t make any sense.
Scene
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.
Probably no lover of scenes would have had very long to wait for some explosions between parties, both equally ready to take offense, and careless of giving it.
Sense
Any particular meaning of a word, among its various meanings.
Word sense disambiguation
The true sense of words or phrases
Scene
To exhibit as a scene; to make a scene of; to display.
Sense
A natural appreciation or ability.
A keen musical sense
Scene
The place where some action occurs;
The police returned to the scene of the crime
Sense
(pragmatics) The way that a referent is presented.
Scene
An incident (real or imaginary);
Their parting was a sad scene
Sense
(semantics) A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries for a word in a dictionary.
The word set has various senses.
Scene
The visual percept of a region;
The most desirable feature of the park are the beautiful views
Sense
(mathematics) One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity.
Scene
A consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film
Sense
(mathematics) One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise.
Scene
A situation treated as an observable object;
The political picture is favorable
The religious scene in England has changed in the last century
Sense
(biochemistry) referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product.
Scene
A subdivision of an act of a play;
The first act has three scenes
Sense
To use biological senses: to either see, hear, smell, taste, or feel.
Scene
A display of bad temper;
He had a fit
She threw a tantrum
He made a scene
Sense
To instinctively be aware.
She immediately sensed her disdain.
Scene
Graphic art consisting of the graphic or photographic representation of a visual percept;
He painted scenes from everyday life
Figure 2 shows photographic and schematic views of the equipment
Sense
To comprehend.
Scene
The context and environment in which something is set;
The perfect setting for a ghost story
Sense
A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch. See Muscular sense, under Muscular, and Temperature sense, under Temperature.
Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep.
What surmounts the reachOf human sense I shall delineate.
The traitor Sense recallsThe soaring soul from rest.
Scene
The painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale;
They worked all night painting the scenery
Sense
Perception by the sensory organs of the body; sensation; sensibility; feeling.
In a living creature, though never so great, the sense and the affects of any one part of the body instantly make a transcursion through the whole.
Sense
Perception through the intellect; apprehension; recognition; understanding; discernment; appreciation.
This Basilius, having the quick sense of a lover.
High disdain from sense of injured merit.
Sense
Sound perception and reasoning; correct judgment; good mental capacity; understanding; also, that which is sound, true, or reasonable; rational meaning.
He raves; his words are looseAs heaps of sand, and scattering wide from sense.
Sense
That which is felt or is held as a sentiment, view, or opinion; judgment; notion; opinion.
I speak my private but impartial senseWith freedom.
The municipal council of the city had ceased to speak the sense of the citizens.
Sense
Meaning; import; signification; as, the true sense of words or phrases; the sense of a remark.
So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense.
I think 't was in another sense.
Sense
Moral perception or appreciation.
Some are so hardened in wickedness as to have no sense of the most friendly offices.
Sense
One of two opposite directions in which a line, surface, or volume, may be supposed to be described by the motion of a point, line, or surface.
Sense
To perceive by the senses; to recognize.
Is he sure that objects are not otherwise sensed by others than they are by him?
Sense
A general conscious awareness;
A sense of security
A sense of happiness
A sense of danger
A sense of self
Sense
The meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted;
The dictionary gave several senses for the word
In the best sense charity is really a duty
The signifier is linked to the signified
Sense
The faculty through which the external world is apprehended;
In the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing
Sense
Sound practical judgment;
I can't see the sense in doing it now
He hasn't got the sense God gave little green apples
Fortunately she had the good sense to run away
Sense
A natural appreciation or ability;
A keen musical sense
A good sense of timing
Sense
Perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles;
He felt the wind
She felt an object brushing her arm
He felt his flesh crawl
She felt the heat when she got out of the car
Sense
Detect some circumstance or entity automatically;
This robot can sense the presence of people in the room
Particle detectors sense ionization
Sense
Become aware of not through the senses but instinctively;
I sense his hostility
Sense
Comprehend;
I sensed the real meaning of his letter
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