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Firework vs Pyrotechnist - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between firework and pyrotechnist

is that firework is a device using gunpowder and other chemicals which, when lit, emits a combination of coloured flames, sparks, whistles or bangs, and sometimes made to rocket high into the sky before exploding, used for entertainment or celebration while pyrotechnist is (dated) a pyrotechnician: person skilled in the manufacture or setting off of fireworks and firework displays.

firework

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A device using gunpowder and other chemicals which, when lit, emits a combination of coloured flames, sparks, whistles or bangs, and sometimes made to rocket high into the sky before exploding, used for entertainment or celebration.

    • See also

    * airbomb * banger * firecracker * flare * mortar * rocket * roman candle * sparkler

    External links

    * ("firework" on Wikipedia)

    pyrotechnist

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dated) A pyrotechnician: person skilled in the manufacture or setting off of fireworks and firework displays.
  • One who demonstrates a brilliant display, as of rhetoric or wit, or of virtuosity in the performing arts.
  • * 1862 , The Statutes at Large and Treaties of the United States of America
    • "That the Secretary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint a pyrotechnist for the service of the navy, "
  • * 2006 , Michel Weber, Nicholas Rescher, Whitehead's Pancreativism
    • "It is thus the pyrotechnist (should we say demiurge?) who gives meaning to the so to speak explosive effervescences that are weaving the world of the spectator"