Setting vs. Scenery — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Setting and Scenery
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Definitions
Setting
The position, direction, or way in which something, such as an automatic control, is set.
Scenery
The natural features of a landscape considered in terms of their appearance, especially when picturesque
Spectacular views of mountain scenery
Setting
The context and environment in which a situation is set; the background.
Scenery
The painted background used to represent natural features or other surroundings on a theatre stage or film set
They had all helped with scenery and costumes
Setting
The time, place, and circumstances in which a narrative, drama, or film takes place.
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Scenery
A view or views of natural features, especially in open country
Enjoying the varied mountain scenery.
Setting
(Music) A composition written or arranged to fit a text, such as a poetical work.
Scenery
Backdrops, hangings, furnishings, and other accessories on a theater stage or on a film or television set that represent the location of a scene.
Setting
A mounting, as for a jewel.
Scenery
View, natural features, landscape.
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Setting
A place setting.
Scenery
Stage backdrops, property and other items on a stage that give the impression of the location of the scene.
Setting
A set of eggs in a hen's nest.
Scenery
Assemblage of scenes; the paintings and hangings representing the scenes of a play; the disposition and arrangement of the scenes in which the action of a play, poem, etc., is laid; representation of place of action or occurence.
Setting
Present participle of set
Scenery
Sum of scenes or views; general aspect, as regards variety and beauty or the reverse, in a landscape; combination of natural views, as woods, hills, etc.
Never need an American look beyond his own country for the sublime and beautiful of natural scenery.
Setting
The time, place and circumstance in which something (such as a story or picture) is set; context; scenario.
Scenery
The painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale;
They worked all night painting the scenery
Setting
The act of setting.
The setting of the sun
The setting, or hardening, of moist plaster of Paris
Scenery
The appearance of a place
Setting
A piece of metal in which a precious stone or gem is fixed to form a piece of jewelry.
Setting
A level or placement that a knob or control is set to.
The volume setting on a television
Setting
The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does.
Setting
Hunting with a setter.
Setting
Something set in, or inserted.
Setting
A piece of vocal or choral music composed for particular words (set to music).
Schubert's setting of Goethe's poem
Bach's setting of the Magnificat
Setting
The mounting of a play, etc., for the stage.
Setting
The direction of a current of wind.
Setting
That disappears below the horizon
The setting sun
Setting
The act of one who, or that which, sets; as, the setting of type, or of gems; the setting of the sun; the setting (hardening) of moist plaster of Paris; the setting (set) of a current.
Setting
The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does; also, hunting with a setter.
Setting
Something set in, or inserted.
Thou shalt set in it settings of stones.
Setting
That in which something, as a gem, is set; as, the gold setting of a jeweled pin.
Setting
The time, place, and circumstances in which an event (real or fictional) occurs; as, the setting of a novel.
Setting
The context and environment in which something is set;
The perfect setting for a ghost story
Setting
The state of the environment in which a situation exists;
You can't do that in a university setting
Setting
Arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted
Setting
The physical position of something;
He changed the setting on the thermostat
Setting
A table service for one person;
A place setting of sterling flatware
Setting
Mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place;
The diamond was in a plain gold mount
Setting
(of a heavenly body) disappearing below the horizon;
The setting sun