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Setting vs. Scenery — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Setting and Scenery

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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

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