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make the scene

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noun

the place where some action or event occurs: He returned to the scene of the murder.

any view or picture.

an incident or situation in real life.

an embarrassing outbreak or display of anger, strong feeling, or bad manners: Please don't make a scene in such a public place.

a division of a play or of an act of a play, usually representing what passes between certain of the actors in one place.

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a unit of action or a segment of a story in a play, motion picture, or television show.

the place in which the action of a play or part of a play is supposed to occur.

scenery (def. 2).

Literature.

an episode, situation, or the like, as in a narrative.

the setting or locale of a story.

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the stage, especially of an ancient Greek or Roman theater.

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an area or sphere of activity, current interest, etc.: the rock music scene; the fashion scene.

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behind the scenes, in secret or in private.

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make the scene, Slang. to appear in a particular place or engage in a particular activity: Let's make the scene downtown tonight. She was never one to make the drug scene.

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Origin:
1530–40; < Latin scēna background (of the stage) < Greek skēnḗ booth (where actors dressed)

Related forms

in·ter·scene, noun

Can be confused: scene, seen.

Synonyms
1. arena, stage, location; center, focus. 2. See view. 3. episode. 4. demonstration, spectacle, show.

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Word Origin & History

scene

1540, "subdivision of an act of a play," also "stage-setting," from M.Fr. scène (14c.), from L. scæna, scena "scene, stage," from Gk. skene "scene, stage," originally "tent or booth," related to skia "shadow, shade," via notion of "something that gives shade," from PIE base *ska(i)- "to

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shine, flicker, glimmer" (cf. Skt. chaya "brilliance, luster, shadow," Alb. he "shadow," Goth. skeinan, O.E. scinan "to shine"). Meaning "place in which the action of a literary work occurs" is attested from 1592; general sense (non-literary) is recorded from 1594. U.S. slang sense of "setting or milieu for a specific group or activity" is attested from 1951 in Beat jargon. Meaning "stormy encounter between two or more persons" is attested from 1761. Behind the scenes (1668) is an image from the theater, "amid actors and stage machinery" (where patrons are not admitted). Scene of the crime (1923) first attested in Agatha Christie.

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Slang Dictionary

make the scene definition

tv.
to attend an event. (See also scene.) : I hope everybody can make the scene.
tv.
to understand a situation; to appreciate the situation. (Underworld. See also make.) : I can't quite make the scene, but it looks like Sam punched the guy over here. Then he moved to the window over here, and that's when the old dame across the street saw him.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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scene definition

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n.
a place; a setting. (See also make the scene.) : I need a different scene. Life is too hectic here.
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the drug-use environment; the drug scene. : The longer you spend in a scene like this, the harder it is to sober up and go straight.
n.
one's preference. (See also bag.) : This nine-to-five stuff just isn't my scene. I quit.

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Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Idioms & Phrases

make the scene

Put in an appearance, take part in an event, as in I'll miss most of the party, but I hope to make the scene before midnight. This expression employs scene in the sense of "a place where an action occurs." [Slang; mid-1900s]

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"With thinking we may be beside ourselves in a sane sense. By a conscious effort of the mind we can stand aloof from actions and their consequences; and all things, good and bad, go by us like a torrent. We are not wholly involved in Nature. I may be either the driftwood in the stream, or Indra in the sky looking down on it. I may be affected by a theatrical exhibition; on the other hand, I may not be affected by an actual event which appears to concern me much more. I only know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, of thoughts and affections; and am sensible of a certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not a part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you. When the play, it may be the tragedy, of life is over, the spectator goes his way. It was a kind of fiction, a work of the imagination only, so far as he was concerned. This doubleness may easily make us poor neighbors and friends sometimes."

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