different between scene vs section

English

Alternative forms

• scæne (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle French scene, from Latin scaena, sc?na, from Ancient Greek ????? (sk?n?, “scene, stage”). Doublet of scena.

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?n, IPA^(key): /si?n/
• Homophone: seen
• Rhymes: -i?n

Noun

scene (plural scenes)

1. The location of an event that attracts attention.

3. (archaic, theater) the stage.

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

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.

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. 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.

   • Through what new scenes and changes must we pass!

8. 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.
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
   • 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.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• proscenium

Verb

scene (third-person singular simple present scenes, present participle scening, simple past and past participle scened)

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

Anagrams

• cenes, cense, sence

Danish

Etymology

Via Latin scaena from Ancient Greek ????? (sk?n?, “scene, stage”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se?n?/, [?se?n?]
• Homophone: sene

Noun

scene c (singular definite scenen, plural indefinite scener)

1. stage (platform for performing in a theatre)
2. scene (section of a film or a play)
3. scene (a setting or a behaviour)

Inflection

Derived terms

• iscenesætte
• sceneri
• sceneshow

Italian

Noun

scene f pl

1. plural of scena

Middle French

Etymology

First known attestation 1486, borrowed from Latin scaena.

Noun

scene f

1. stage (location where a play, etc., takes place)

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• sene

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (sk?n?, “scene, stage”), via Latin scaena

Noun

scene m (definite singular scenen, indefinite plural scener, definite plural scenene)

1. a stage (in a theatre)
2. a scene (in a film or play)

Derived terms

• iscenesette
• sceneshow

References

• “scene” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• sene

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (sk?n?, “scene, stage”), via Latin scaena

Noun

scene m (definite singular scenen, indefinite plural scenar, definite plural scenane)
scene f (definite singular scena, indefinite plural scener, definite plural scenene)

1. a stage (in a theatre)
2. a scene (in a film or play)

Derived terms

• sceneshow

References

• “scene” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *skaun?, from Proto-Germanic *skauniz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?.ne/

Adjective

s??ne

1. Alternative form of s??ene

Declension

See Wiktionary:Entry layout for the Wiktionary style guide for sections

English

Etymology

From Middle English seccioun, from Old French section, from Latin sectio (“cutting, cutting off, excision, amputation of diseased parts of the body, etc.”), from sectus, past participle of secare (“to cut”). More at saw.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: s?k?sh?n, IPA^(key): /?s?k??n/
• Rhymes: -?k??n
• Hyphenation: sec?tion

Noun

section (plural sections)

1. A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
2. A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
   1. (music) A group of instruments in an orchestra.

3. A part of a document.
4. An act or instance of cutting.
5. A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
   1. (aviation) A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.
6. (surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.
   1. (surgery, colloquial) Short for Caesarean section.
7. (sciences) A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
9. (botany) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
10. (zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
11. (military) A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
12. (category theory) A right inverse.
13. (New Zealand) A piece of residential land; a plot.
14. (Canada) A one-mile square area of land, defined by a government survey.
15. (US, historical) Any of the squares, each containing 640 acres, into which the public lands of the United States were divided.
16. The symbol §, denoting a section of a document.
17. (geology) A sequence of rock layers.

Synonyms

• (botany, zoology): sectio

• cutting, slice, snippet
• division, part, slice, piece
• volume

Antonyms

• whole

Hyponyms

Coordinate terms

• (aviation): waterline, buttock line

Derived terms

• bisection
• dissection
• sectionman
• trisection

Related terms

Translations

Verb

section (third-person singular simple present sections, present participle sectioning, simple past and past participle sectioned) (transitive)

1. To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
2. To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.
3. (Britain) To commit (a person, to a hospital, with or without their consent), as for mental health reasons. So called after various sections of legal acts regarding mental health.
   • 1998, Diana Gittins, Madness in its Place: Narratives of Severalls Hospital, 1913-1997, Routledge, ?ISBN, page 45:

     Tribunals were set up as watchdogs in cases of compulsory detention (sectioning). […] Informal patients, however, could be sectioned, and this was often a fear of patients once they were in hospital.

   • a. 2000, Lucy Johnstone, Users and Abusers of Psychiatry: A Critical Look at Psychiatric Practice, Second Edition, Routledge (2000), ?ISBN, page xiv:

     The doctor then sectioned her, making her an involuntary patient, and had her moved to a secure ward.

   • 2006, Mairi Colme, A Divine Dance of Madness, Chipmunkapublishing, ?ISBN, page 5:

     After explaining that for 7 years, from ’88 to ’95, I was permanently sectioned under the Mental Health act, robbed of my freedom, my integrity, my rights, I wrote at the time;- […]

   Synonym: (Australia) schedule

4. (medical): To perform a cesarean section on (someone).
   • 2012, Anne Fraser, St. Piran's: Daredevil, Doctor...Dad!, Harlequin, page 16:

     "But if she's gone into active labour she could be bleeding massively and you may have to section her there and then."

   • 2008, Murray et al, Labor and Delivery Nursing: Guide to Evidence-Based Practice, Springer Publishing Company, page 57:

     You may hear a physician say, "I don't want to section her until the baby declares itself."

Translations

Further reading

• section in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• section in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• section at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• ecotins, noetics, notices

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin secti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?k.sj??/

Noun

section f (plural sections)

1. section (all meanings)

Further reading

• “section” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• notices

Interlingua

Etymology

From secar +? -ion, alternatively borrowed from Latin secti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sek?ti?on/

Noun

section (plural sectiones)

1. (act of) cutting
2. (surgery) section (all meanings)
3. section
   1. separation by cutting
   2. portion, division, subdivision
   3. (natural history, military, etc.) section
4. (geometry, drawing, etc.) section

Derived terms

• dissection
• intersection
• resection
• trisection
• vivisection
• sectionar