Functioning and Scene

noun

• Process or manner of functioning or operating.
  • usage: "the power of its engine determines its operation"; "the plane's operation in high winds"; "they compared the cooking performance of each oven"; "the jet's performance conformed to high standards"
  • synonyms: operation, performance

verb

• Perform as expected when applied.
  • usage: "The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in"; "Does this old car still run well"; "This old radio doesn't work anymore"
  • synonyms: function, work, operate, go, run
• Serve a purpose, role, or function.
  • usage: "The tree stump serves as a table"; "The female students served as a control group"; "This table would serve very well"; "His freedom served him well"; "The table functions as a desk"
  • synonyms: serve, function
• Perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function.
  • usage: "His wife officiated as his private secretary"
  • synonyms: officiate, function

adjective

• Performing or able to perform its regular function.
  • usage: "a functioning flashlight"

noun

• The place where some action occurs.
  • usage: "the police returned to the scene of the crime"
• An incident (real or imaginary. )
  • usage: "their parting was a sad scene"
• The visual percept of a region.
  • usage: "the most desirable feature of the park are the beautiful views"
  • synonyms: view, aspect, prospect, vista, panorama
• A consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film.
  • synonyms: shot
• A situation treated as an observable object.
  • usage: "the political picture is favorable"; "the religious scene in England has changed in the last century"
  • synonyms: picture
• A subdivision of an act of a play.
  • usage: "the first act has three scenes"
• A display of bad temper.
  • usage: "he had a fit"; "she threw a tantrum"; "he made a scene"
  • synonyms: fit, tantrum, conniption
• Graphic art consisting of the graphic or photographic representation of a visual percept.
  • usage: "he painted scenes from everyday life"; "figure 2 shows photographic and schematic views of the equipment"
  • synonyms: view
• The context and environment in which something is set.
  • usage: "the perfect setting for a ghost story"
  • synonyms: setting
• The painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale.
  • usage: "they worked all night painting the scenery"
  • synonyms: scenery

• (n.) 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.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) A landscape or part of a landscape; scenery.
• (v.t.) To exhibit as a scene; to make a scene of; to display.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) 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.