background vs scene

background

noun
  • A part of the picture that depicts scenery to the rear or behind the main subject; context. 

  • One's social heritage, or previous life; what one did in the past. 

  • Information relevant to the current situation about past events; history. 

  • The image or color over which a computer's desktop items are shown (e.g. icons or application windows). 

  • A less important feature of scenery (as opposed to foreground). 

  • A type of activity on a computer that is not normally visible to the user. 

verb
  • To put in a position that is not prominent. 

  • To gather and provide background information (on). 

adj
  • Less important or less noticeable in a scene or system. 

scene

noun
  • A landscape, or part of a landscape; scenery. 

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

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

  • 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. 

  • The location of an event that attracts attention. 

  • An element of fiction writing. 

  • 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 

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

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

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

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

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