dais vs scene

dais

noun
  • The canopy over an altar, etc. 

  • A raised platform in a room for a high table, a seat of honour, a throne, or other dignified occupancy, such as ancestral statues; a similar platform supporting a lectern, pulpit, etc., which may be used to speak from. 

  • A bench, a settle, a pew. 

scene

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

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

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

  • 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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