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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
scenario
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an unlikely scenario/occurrence
▪ They should build a new road, but that’s an unlikely scenario.
doomsday scenario (=a description of a very bad and hopeless situation)
the nightmare scenario (=the worst possible situation)
▪ Emergency planners are trying to prepare for this nightmare scenario.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
alternative
▪ One would construct alternative scenarios, and brood about them.
▪ The downside of such excellent economic performance is that virtually any alternative scenario will represent a deterioration.
▪ Gallup offered the alternative scenarios shown in the table - including a deal with the Ulster Unionists.
▪ It made dissent, social criticism, and alternative scenarios more difficult to articulate.
▪ However, the facts still fit two alternative scenarios: a. Fred has been encouraging pilferage over a long period.
different
▪ Two different game scenarios for the death of the boy genius.
▪ Taking their recent findings into account, they begin to script a different scenario.
▪ Several different scenarios can be calculated and printed out very rapidly.
▪ Where moderate fires or controlled burns occur, a different scenario will unfold.
▪ The last match featuring Ballesteros and Olazabal against Strange and Kite produced an altogether different scenario.
▪ If a big fire strikes, an entirely different scenario would occur.
ill
▪ The worst case scenario suggests aircraft could be responsible for up to 43 percent of the projected rise in global temperature.
▪ It is the worst possible scenario.
▪ It was Liz's worst scenario coming true, in front of hundreds of millions of television viewers.
▪ The worst case scenario is a sausage biscuit with egg, hash browns and orange juice combination.
▪ A little melodramatic, I grant you, but it represented the worst-case scenario.
▪ Would this be the worst case scenario or the best case scenario?
▪ The worst-case scenario for the insurers is a slow-moving front over the upper Thames that gradually moves over London.
▪ A government cost benefit analysis in 1986 showed that the cost of vaccination exceeded the worst case scenario cost of eradication.
likely
▪ A more likely scenario is that male rape victims would be afforded the same shoddy treatment as their female counterparts.
▪ We suspect the latter is the most likely scenario.
▪ The likely scenario if reform fails, on the other hand, is dismaying.
▪ The most likely scenario is for some type of convergence.
plausible
▪ This, too, is a plausible scenario.
▪ Miracle in the figurative sense, since although we do not know how cells evolved, quite plausible scenarios have been proposed.
possible
▪ This list is almost endless but nomatterhow small the likelihood, every possible scenario must be explored.
▪ It is the worst possible scenario.
▪ A possible scenario is depicted in Figure 2.3.
▪ Those are still only ideas, and defense planners are paid to examine every possible scenario.
▪ This is a possible scenario, but an implausible one.
▪ And that was including the very worst possible scenario of disasters she could devise.
▪ A possible scenario for self-publishers is this: You have been meeting with other writers for some time.
▪ Thus the number of possible scenarios for the life, evolution and disappearance of musical instruments is almost infinite.
unlikely
▪ That is an unlikely enough scenario to dismiss out of hand, though.
whole
▪ There are further problems with the whole scenario.
▪ I told the whole bizarre scenario to Ron and Syndi.
▪ The fivesome are a comfortable shambles, wandering around and, like, being nice and loose about this whole gig scenario.
▪ This was certainly the first time the President had heard the whole scenario.
▪ I sketch out the whole scenario in seven minutes flat.
■ NOUN
case
▪ The worst case scenario suggests aircraft could be responsible for up to 43 percent of the projected rise in global temperature.
▪ The worst case scenario is a sausage biscuit with egg, hash browns and orange juice combination.
▪ A little melodramatic, I grant you, but it represented the worst-#case scenario.
▪ Would this be the worst case scenario or the best case scenario?
▪ Fortunately, we are still a considerable distance from such a worst-#case scenario.
▪ The worst-#case scenario for the insurers is a slow-moving front over the upper Thames that gradually moves over London.
▪ A government cost benefit analysis in 1986 showed that the cost of vaccination exceeded the worst case scenario cost of eradication.
doomsday
▪ Admittedly, there is now much less reason for invoking this doomsday scenario.
▪ A year ago, few people were talking about such a doomsday scenario.
▪ As with the Doomsday scenario, this further militarisation of the police occurred without public debate or accountability.
▪ One doomsday scenario: No Bonds, no stadium.
▪ In 1987, I didn't have to concern myself about Doomsday scenarios as I was staying in Manchester.
nightmare
▪ It must be said, however, that this is a nightmare scenario which the Government does not subscribe to.
▪ Keith says this match was a nightmare scenario and Gloucester are in trouble.
■ VERB
consider
▪ It is just an extension of on-the-road campaigning. Consider this scenario which I see consistently two or three times a year.
▪ Home Entertainment Another application area of e-commerce is that of home entertainment. Consider the following scenario.
▪ Let us consider the possible scenarios.
▪ Still, you do have time to show your document. Consider this scenario.
▪ He began to consider the worst possible scenario.
create
▪ Sometimes I created elaborate scenarios that tested my will to save him.
▪ In perhaps his most startling and disturbing model, Thompson created two scenarios.
▪ Conversely, we can see that the unhappy coincidence of an invalid self-description and a negative evaluation creates a disastrous scenario.
▪ It creates a paradoxical scenario in which the organization acts as both the perpetrator and the victim of its pernicious low performance.
follow
▪ If this is true, the education secretary will be hoping for one of the following scenarios.
▪ Consider the following scenario: The amendment is passed and ratified by the states.
▪ To make my point, follow this scenario.
▪ For the Purposes of economic analyses we will choose the following representative scenario for retrofitting an existing oil boiler.
imagine
▪ Intelligent fills Imagine the scenario - you are creating a set of figures ordered by month.
▪ It is difficult to imagine a scenario in which most companies will enthusiastically promote affirmative action as a matter of policy.
▪ Somehow, when she had planned her perfect summer, she had never imagined a scenario like this.
▪ We were sitting around, watching games, imagining every scenario.
▪ Making changes Imagine the scenarios for four short stories.
▪ But once again, one can imagine such an extreme scenario, although very rare.
▪ I can imagine the scenario that must have taken place before the Bill was introduced.
play
▪ He is always very receptive and is willing to share with you, to play out various scenarios.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A common scenario is that a woman marries and sacrifices her career for her husband.
▪ In a worst-case scenario all life on the planet would be wiped out by a nuclear war.
▪ This is every politician's nightmare scenario.
▪ Under the most hopeful scenario, it will take 20 years to clean up the mess.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A possible scenario is depicted in Figure 2.3.
▪ Our scenarios are incomplete, no more than works-in-progress, meant to be evocative, not exhaustive.
▪ The scenario is world war two and you are at the controls of the fictional whirly-bird.
▪ The scenarios that follow shall include only events that were witnessed and caused injuries, damage, or death.
▪ Though not out of the range of historic experience, absolute economic decline is, of course, an extreme scenario.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scenario

Scenario \Sce*na"ri*o\, n. [It.] A preliminary sketch of the plot, or main incidents, of an opera.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
scenario

1868, "sketch of the plot of a play," from Italian scenario, from Late Latin scenarius "of stage scenes," from Latin scena "scene" (see scene). Meaning "imagined situation" is first recorded 1960, in reference to hypothetical nuclear wars.

Wiktionary
scenario

n. 1 An outline of the plot of a dramatic or literary work. 2 A screenplay itself, or an outline or a treatment of it. 3 An outline or model of an expected or supposed sequence of events.

WordNet
scenario
  1. n. an outline or synopsis of a play (or, by extension, of a literary work)

  2. a setting for a work of art or literature; "the scenario is France during the Reign of Terror"

  3. a postulated sequence of possible events; "planners developed several scenarios in case of an attack"

Wikipedia
Scenario

In the performing arts, a scenario (, ; from Italian: that which is pinned to the scenery; pronounced ) is a synoptical collage of an event or series of actions and events. In the Commedia dell'arte it was an outline of entrances, exits, and action describing the plot of a play, and was literally pinned to the back of the scenery. It is also known as canovaccio or "that which is pinned to the canvas" of which the scenery was constructed.

Surviving scenarios from the Renaissance contain little other than character names, brief descriptions of action, and references to specific lazzi with no further explanation. It is believed that a scenario formed the basis for a fully improvisational performance, though it is also likely that they were simple reminders of the plot for those members of the cast who were literate. Modern commedia troupes most often make use of a script with varying degrees of additional improvisation.

In the creation of an opera or ballet, a scenario is often developed initially to indicate how the original source, if any, is to be adapted and to summarize the aspects of character, staging, plot, etc. that can be expanded later in a fully developed libretto, or script. This sketch can be helpful in "pitching" the idea to a prospective producer, director or composer.

Scenario (computing)

In computing, a scenario (, ; from Italian: that which is pinned to the scenery; pronounced ) is a narrative of foreseeable interactions of user roles (known in the Unified Modeling Language as 'actors') and the technical system, which usually includes computer hardware and software.

A scenario has a goal, which is usually functional. A scenario describes one way that a system is or is envisaged to be used in the context of activity in a defined time-frame. The time-frame for a scenario could be (for example) a single transaction; a business operation; a day or other period; or the whole operational life of a system. Similarly the scope of a scenario could be (for example) a single system or piece of equipment; an equipped team or department; or an entire organization.

Scenarios are frequently used as part of the system development process. They are typically produced by usability or marketing specialists, often working in concert with end users and developers. Scenarios are written in plain language, with minimal technical details, so that stakeholders (designers, usability specialists, programmers, engineers, managers, marketing specialists, etc.) can have a common example which can focus their discussions.

Increasingly, scenarios are used directly to define the wanted behaviour of software: replacing or supplementing traditional functional requirements. Scenarios are often defined in use cases, which document alternative and overlapping ways of reaching a goal.

Scenario (disambiguation)

Scenario or Scenarios may refer to:

  • Scenario, a synopsis of a series of actions and events in a work of the performing arts that lacks a full script, such as a ballet
  • scenario, a possible set of future events, see Scenario planning and Scenario analysis
  • Scenario - A Journal for Drama and Theatre Pedagogy, a bilingual online journal
  • Scenario in films, part of the screenwriting process, precursor to a screenplay
  • Scenario (computing), of interaction between a computer user and a computer system or between two software components
  • User scenario, used to communicate an idea for a product or experience involving interactivity
  • Scenario (album), a 1983 album by Al Di Meola
  • Scenarios (album), by Andy Milne and Grégoire Maret
  • Scenario (song), a 1992 song by hip-hop group, A Tribe Called Quest
  • Scenario (artwork), an artificially intelligent interactive cinema project
Scenario (album)

Scenario is a 1983 album by jazz fusion guitarist, Al Di Meola. It furthered the musical direction that became apparent on his previous album Electric Rendezvous and saw a greater influence of keyboard player Jan Hammer on the album. Other musicians on this album include Phil Collins (drums - "Island Dreamer)", Tony Levin (electric stick bass - "Calliope") and Bill Bruford (Simmons electric drums - "Calliope"). The Fairlight CMI was heavily used on some tracks, and is visible in the "Sequencer" video.

Scenario (artwork)

Scenario is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) computer graphic interactive installation, directed by the artist Dennis Del Favero, and developed in collaboration with scriptwriter Stephen Sewell, AI scientist Maurice Pagnucco working with computer scientists Anuraag Sridhar, Arcot Sowmya and Paul Compton. It is a 360-degree 3D cinematic work whose narrative is interactively produced by the audience and humanoid characters. The title is a Commedia dell'arte term (ʃeˈnarjo) referring to the way dramatic action is dependent on the way actors and audience interact. 1Scenario was developed at the iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research 2 at the University of New South Wales.

Scenario (song)

"Scenario" is the third single from A Tribe Called Quest's second album The Low End Theory. The song features members of Leaders of the New School. Matt Cibula of PopMatters called the track hip hop's greatest posse cut. The song is commonly considered a breakout moment for LONS member Busta Rhymes.

The music video, directed by Jim Swaffield, plays on an interactive desktop, and features cameo appearances by Spike Lee, De La Soul, Brand Nubian, Fab 5 Freddy and Redman.

Time included the song on its list of the All-TIME 100 Songs.

A remixed version of "Scenario" appeared on the B-side of the 12" single and cassette single as well as the limited edition release of the group's final album, The Love Movement (1998). The remix also features Leaders of the New School and newcomer Kid Hood, who was murdered three days after recording his verse. Blender magazine ranked the remix at number 216 in its list of "The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born".

Usage examples of "scenario".

There were plenty of scenarios loaded into the avionics, mostly connected with the plane being forced to ditch in the ocean.

In the living room, Proctor began to overturn furniture, tear paintings from the walls, and smash bibelots, further developing the scenario that would lead the police away from any consideration that the intruder might have been other than a common drug-pumped thug.

Japan Oparea and the Scenario Orange Warplan, Annex A, the plan for a naval blockade of the islands.

The only scenario that did bring me out in a sweat was the possibility of having my bollocks cut off.

By now, Ronnie Bucca was so concerned about the threat intelligence he was picking up through his reserve unit that he made a point of reviewing disaster scenarios with his family.

In this scenario, we often assume that a person who is just looking is a person who is not buying, a person who, perhaps, is not even really shopping.

I know nothing about the making of cinematographs, but, as I understand, you take the pictures, from beginning to the end of the scenario, in series, then choose the best ones to use after you have developed them?

Gasperini and Veneziano have, in fact, come up with their own intriguing version of string cosmology that shares certain features with the scenario described above, but also differs in significant ways.

The activist scientists who fed reporters the deadly-dioxin scenario were not about to tell us that there was no proof dioxin hurts people.

Probably Dutra was planning on roughly the same scenario, but with a different dead person at the end of it.

SECURITY A term coined by Bellovin and Cheswick of Bell Labs to describe a security scenario where the outer perimeter, such as firewall, is strong, but the infrastructure behind it is weak.

Safe was a hypotheticalcryptography scenario in which a safe builder wrote blueprints foran unbreakable safe.

About the only convention that was held sacrosanct by every Gamer was that no scenario could be allowed to tip the balance between Rebellion and Imperium: to change that would be to change the Game itself.

An over-the-pole attack launched from one of the ICBM bases close to the Barents Sea was the most likely scenario for World War III.

But by the time Garner arrives, a frightening scenario is taking shape: Deep beneath the ice, something is leaking deadly radiation.