Screen vs. Scene — What's the Difference?

A movable device, especially a framed construction such as a room divider or a decorative panel, designed to divide, conceal, or protect.

Something seen by a viewer; a view or prospect.

One that serves to protect, conceal, or divide

The place where an action or event occurs

A surface, as on a smartphone, television, or computer monitor, on which one can read and view electronically displayed information and images.

The place in which the action of a play, movie, novel, or other narrative occurs; a setting.

A surface on which text and images are projected for display.

A subdivision of an act in a dramatic presentation in which the setting is fixed and the time continuous.

The medium in which movies are shown

A shot or series of shots in a movie constituting a unit of continuous related action.

A coarse sieve used for sifting out fine particles, as of sand, gravel, or coal.

A section of a narrative in which the action is depicted through detail and dialogue as if it is occurring in real time

A system for preliminary appraisal and selection of personnel as to their suitability for particular jobs.

The scenery and properties for a dramatic presentation.

A window or door insertion of framed wire or plastic mesh used to keep out insects and permit air flow.

A theater stage.

A body of troops or ships sent in advance of or surrounding a larger body to protect or warn of attack.

A real or fictitious episode, especially when described.

(Sports) A block, set with the body, that impedes the vision or movement of an opponent.

A public display of passion or temper

(Football) A screen pass.

A sphere of activity

To show or project (a movie, for example) on a screen.

(Slang) A situation or set of circumstances

To conceal from view with a screen or something that acts like a screen

The location of an event that attracts attention.

To protect, guard, or shield

The stage.

To provide with a screen or screens

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

To separate or sift out (fine particles of sand, for example) by means of a sieve or screen.

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.

To sort through and eliminate unwanted examples of (something)

The location, time, circumstances, etc., in which something occurs, or in which the action of a story, play, or the like, is set up

To examine (a job applicant, for example) systematically in order to determine suitability.

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

To test or evaluate (a student) to determine placement in an educational system or to identify specific learning needs.

A landscape, or part of a landscape; scenery.

To test or examine for the presence of disease or infection

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

To subject to genetic screening.

An element of fiction writing.

To block the vision or movement of (an opponent) with the body.

A social environment consisting of an informal, vague group of people with a uniting interest; their sphere of activity; a subculture.

To obscure an opponent's view of (a shot) by positioning oneself between the opponent and the shooter.

A youth subculture that was popular in Canada and the United States in the 2000s and early 2010s.

A physical divider intended to block an area from view, or provide shelter from something dangerous.

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

A material woven from fine wires intended to block animals or large particles from passing while allowing gasses, liquids and finer particles to pass.

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.

A frame supporting a mesh of bars or wires used to classify fragments of stone by size, allowing the passage of fragments whose a diameter is smaller than the distance between the bars or wires.

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.

(baseball) The protective netting which protects the audience from flying objects

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.

(printing) A stencil upon a framed mesh through which paint is forced onto printed-on material; the frame with the mesh itself.

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.

(by analogy) Searching through a sample for a target; an act of screening

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.

(genetics) A technique used to identify genes so as to study gene functions.

A landscape, or part of a landscape; scenery.

Various forms or formats of information display

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.

The viewing surface or area of a movie, or moving picture or slide presentation.

To exhibit as a scene; to make a scene of; to display.

The informational viewing area of electronic devices, where output is displayed.

The place where some action occurs;

One of the individual regions of a video game, etc. divided into separate screens.

An incident (real or imaginary);

(computer) The visualised data or imagery displayed on a computer screen.

The visual percept of a region;

(figurative) A disguise; concealment.

A consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film

Definitions related to standing in the path of an opposing player

A situation treated as an observable object;

(American football) screen pass

A subdivision of an act of a play;

(basketball) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.

A display of bad temper;

(cricket) An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to make the ball more easily visible.

Graphic art consisting of the graphic or photographic representation of a visual percept;

(nautical) A collection of less-valuable vessels that travel with a more valuable one for the latter's protection.

The context and environment in which something is set;

(architecture) A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection, as in a church, to separate the aisle from the choir, etc.

The painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale;

A large scarf.

To filter by passing through a screen.

To shelter or conceal.

To remove information, or censor intellectual material from viewing. To hide the facts.

To present publicly (on the screen).

To fit with a screen.

(medicine) To examine patients or treat a sample in order to detect a chemical or a disease, or to assess susceptibility to a disease.

(molecular biology) To search chemical libraries by means of a computational technique in order to identify chemical compounds which would potentially bind to a given biological target such as a protein.

(basketball) To stand so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.

To determine the source or subject matter of a call before deciding whether to answer the phone.

Anything that separates or cuts off inconvenience, injury, or danger; that which shelters or conceals from view; a shield or protection; as, a fire screen.

A dwarf wall or partition carried up to a certain height for separation and protection, as in a church, to separate the aisle from the choir, or the like.

A surface, as that afforded by a curtain, sheet, wall, etc., upon which an image, as a picture, is thrown by a magic lantern, solar microscope, etc.

A long, coarse riddle or sieve, sometimes a revolving perforated cylinder, used to separate the coarser from the finer parts, as of coal, sand, gravel, and the like.

An erection of white canvas or wood placed on the boundary opposite a batsman to enable him to see ball better.

A netting, usu. of metal, contained in a frame, used mostly in windows or doors to allow in fresh air while excluding insects.

The surface of an electronic device, as a television set or computer monitor, on which a visible image is formed. The screen is frequently the surface of a cathode-ray tube containing phosphors excited by the electron beam, but other methods for causing an image to appear on the screen are also used, as in flat-panel displays.

The motion-picture industry; motion pictures.

To provide with a shelter or means of concealment; to separate or cut off from inconvenience, injury, or danger; to shelter; to protect; to protect by hiding; to conceal; as, fruits screened from cold winds by a forest or hill.

To pass, as coal, gravel, ashes, etc., through a screen in order to separate the coarse from the fine, or the worthless from the valuable; to sift.

To examine a group of objects methodically, to separate them into groups or to select one or more for some purpose.

A white or silvered surface where pictures can be projected for viewing

Something that keeps things out or hinders sight;

Display on the surface of the large end of a cathode-ray tube on which is electronically created

A covering that serves to conceal or shelter something;

Protective covering consisting of a metallic netting mounted in a frame and covering windows or doors (especially for protection against insects)

A strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles

A door that is a screen to keep insects from entering a building through the open door;

Partition consisting of a decorative frame or panel that serves to divide a space

Test or examine for the presence of disease or infection;

Examine methodically;

Examine in order to test suitability;

Project onto a screen for viewing;

Prevent from entering;

Separate with a riddle, as grain from chaff

Protect, hide, or conceal from danger or harm