event vs scene

event

noun
  • A prearranged social activity (function, etc.) 

  • In the event, he turned out to have what I needed anyway. 

  • A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate. 

  • A possible action that the user can perform that is monitored by an application or the operating system (event listener). When an event occurs an event handler is called which performs a specific task. 

  • One of several contests that combine to make up a competition. 

  • An occurrence; something that happens. 

  • An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases). 

  • A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space. 

  • An episode of severe health conditions. 

scene

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

  • 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 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. 

  • 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. 

How often have the words event and scene occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )