Magician vs Adapt - What's the difference?
magician | adapt |
A person who plays with or practices allegedly supernatural magic.
A spiritualist or practitioner of mystic arts (often derogatory).
*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= A performer of tricks or an escapologist.
An amazingly talented craftsman or scientist.
A person who astounds, is an enigma.
To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion.
To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust: as, to adapt a story or a foreign play for the stage; to adapt an old machine to a new manufacture.
To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character: as, to bring out a play adapted from the French; a word of an adapted form.
To change oneself so as to be adapted.
As a noun magician
is a person who plays with or practices allegedly supernatural magic.As a verb adapt is
to make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit; to proportion.As an adjective adapt is
adapted; fit; suited; suitable.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 The colossus of science was not the first king of reason, Keynes wrote after reading Newton’s unpublished manuscripts.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 ”.}}
Synonyms
* (practitioner of allegedly supernatural magic) sorcerer, thaumaturge, wizard, warlock, witch, magic user * (spiritualist or practitioner of mystic arts) spiritualist, mystic, witch doctor * (performer of tricks) wizard, trickster, stage magician * (talented craftsman or scientist) whizz, whiz, wiz, wizard * phenomenon * See alsoadapt
English
Verb
(en verb)- They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.
