Setting vs. Scenery

Settingverb

present participle of set

Scenerynoun

View, natural features, landscape.

Settingnoun

The time, place and circumstance in which something (such as a story or picture) is set; context; scenario.

Scenerynoun

Stage backdrops, property and other items on a stage that give the impression of the location of the scene.

Settingnoun

The act of setting.

‘the setting of the sun’; ‘the setting, or hardening, of moist plaster of Paris’;

Scenerynoun

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.

Settingnoun

A piece of metal in which a precious stone or gem is fixed to form a piece of jewelry.

Scenerynoun

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.

‘Never need an American look beyond his own country for the sublime and beautiful of natural scenery.’;

Settingnoun

A level or placement that a knob or control is set to.

‘the volume setting on a television’;

Scenerynoun

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

‘they worked all night painting the scenery’;

Settingnoun

The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does.

Scenerynoun

the appearance of a place

Settingnoun

Hunting with a setter.

Scenerynoun

the natural features of a landscape considered in terms of their appearance, especially when picturesque

‘spectacular views of mountain scenery’;

Settingnoun

Something set in, or inserted.

Scenerynoun

the painted background used to represent natural features or other surroundings on a theatre stage or film set

‘they had all helped with scenery and costumes’;

Settingnoun

A piece of vocal or choral music composed for particular words (set to music).

Settingadjective

that disappears below the horizon

‘the setting sun’;

Settingnoun

The act of one who, or that which, sets; as, the setting of type, or of gems; the setting of the sun; the setting (hardening) of moist plaster of Paris; the setting (set) of a current.

Settingnoun

The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does; also, hunting with a setter.

Settingnoun

Something set in, or inserted.

‘Thou shalt set in it settings of stones.’;

Settingnoun

That in which something, as a gem, is set; as, the gold setting of a jeweled pin.

Settingnoun

the time, place, and circumstances in which an event (real or fictional) occurs; as, the setting of a novel.

Settingnoun

the context and environment in which something is set;

‘the perfect setting for a ghost story’;

Settingnoun

the state of the environment in which a situation exists;

‘you can't do that in a university setting’;

Settingnoun

arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted

Settingnoun

the physical position of something;

‘he changed the setting on the thermostat’;

Settingnoun

a table service for one person;

‘a place setting of sterling flatware’;

Settingnoun

mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place;

‘the diamond was in a plain gold mount’;

Settingadjective

(of a heavenly body) disappearing below the horizon;

‘the setting sun’;