What is the difference between wizard and magician?
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One who uses (or has skill with) magic, mystic items, and magical and mystical practices.
* Dryden
One who is especially skilled or unusually talented in a particular field.
(computing) A computer program or script used to simplify complex operations, often for an inexperienced user.
(Internet) One of the administrators of a multi-user dungeon.
* 1997 , Philip Agre, Douglas Schuler, Reinventing technology, rediscovering community (page 153)
* 1997 , Sara Kiesler, Culture of the Internet (page 132)
(obsolete) A wise man; a sage.
* Milton
(slang) an older male virgin, particularly one over 30 years of age
(slang, dated, British) Fine, superb (originally RAF slang).
* 1942 , Quentin James Reynolds, Only the Stars are Neutral
* 1943 , Howard Macy Coffin, Walter Leslie River, Malta Story
A person who plays with or practices allegedly supernatural magic.
A spiritualist or practitioner of mystic arts (often derogatory).
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, title= A performer of tricks or an escapologist.
An amazingly talented craftsman or scientist.
A person who astounds, is an enigma.
Magician is a synonym of wizard.
As nouns the difference between wizard and magician
is that wizard is one who uses (or has skill with) magic, mystic items, and magical and mystical practices while magician is a person who plays with or practices allegedly supernatural magic.As an adjective wizard
is fine, superb (originally RAF slang).As a verb wizard
is to practice wizardry.wizard
English
Noun
(en noun)- The wily wizard must be caught.
- He was a financial wizard , capable of predicting the movements of the stock markets.
- Use the "Add Network Connection" wizard to connect to a network in a series of simple steps.
- Wizards , in general, have a very different experience of mudding than other players. Because of their palpable and extensive extra powers over other players, and because of their special role in MUD society, they are frequently treated differently
- It is certainly easy to believe the stories I hear of MUD wizards who demand deference and severely punish those who transgress
- See how from far upon the eastern road / The star-led wizards [Magi] haste with odours sweet!
Synonyms
* (in magic) conjurer, mage, magician, magic user, mystic, sorcerer, warlock, witch * (one very skilled or talented) genius, expert, prodigy; see also * (in computing) assistantCoordinate terms
* wizardessDerived terms
* (l)See also
* illusionist * necromancerAdjective
(-)- "We had a wizard show," the young leader of an Australian squadron said, trying to keep the excitement out of his voice.
- But he was a wizard flyer, that boy.
magician
English
(wikipedia magician)Alternative forms
* magitian (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Magician’s brain, passage=The truth is that [Isaac] Newton was very much a product of his time. The colossus of science was not the first king of reason, Keynes wrote after reading Newton’s unpublished manuscripts. Instead “he was the last of the magicians ”.}}