What's the difference between conjuror and juggler?

Conjuror


Definition:

  • (n.) One bound by a common oath with others.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) mystics, conjurors and clairvoyants, set in France and England during the late 1920s, Magic In The Moonlight harks back to the lamest titles in the Woody filmography.
  • (2) In some cases, scientists would be well advised to consult with such experts as conjurors, when skilled frauds are in a position to mislead them.
  • (3) Iger could end up playing the role of the Sorcerer's Apprentice, serving under the tutelage of Jobs, the 21st-century conjuror who transforms every industry he touches.
  • (4) In the wake of the miracle, in-depth questions about the strategy behind the winning shot and its execution were only natural but felt rather like asking a conjuror how he performs his best magic trick.
  • (5) So Jacob was born in an operating theatre, pulled from the tummy of his sleepy, elated mother like a rabbit from a conjuror's hat.
  • (6) Deller's show is called English Magic , and though he's reluctant to think of himself as such, he is its conjuror-in-chief.

Juggler


Definition:

  • (n.) One who practices or exhibits tricks by sleight of hand; one skilled in legerdemain; a conjurer.
  • (n.) A deceiver; a cheat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Despite the heightened buzz, Charlotte Square Gardens is still an oasis of August calm, especially if you want to escape the Royal Mile's flyerers, jugglers and student Shakespearoes.
  • (2) With his schoolboyish, ginger hair and glasses, he looks just how you might expect a mathematician to look - in fact, he is a juggler, too.
  • (3) Covent Garden has long been home to a diverse collection of living statues and fairground freaks, a levitating shaman competing with unicycling jugglers and motionless men in their silver-painted suits.
  • (4) The roentgen-anatomical study of the cervical portion of the vertebral column (fluorography and roentgenography in 2 projections followed by morphometrical treatment) was performed in 603 representatives of different professions: turners, milling-machine operators, craftsmen, mechanicians, jugglers, engineers and constructors.
  • (5) A key variable in cascade juggling is the proportion of time that a juggler holds onto a juggled object during a hand cycle, that is, the time from catch to throw in relation to the time from catch to catch.
  • (6) But they were far outnumbered by a playful, peaceful, harmless group of protesters, including rappers, sax-players, jugglers, spliff-rollers, students, CND campaigners, passers-by, and men dressed as police officers and wearing blue lipstick.
  • (7) It turns out that, with a language, jugglers have been able to discover tricks that had eluded them for thousands of years.
  • (8) "In English the equivalent word is 'juggler', but in Italy they juggled with words, irony and sarcasm," says Fo, who has attended Grillo's shows for years.
  • (9) There were no musical numbers nor were there any jugglers, although Trump certainly tap danced around addressing any substantive issues of policy.
  • (10) Ask anyone who has had the good fortune to hold season tickets at the Bernabeu stadium these past six years and they will tell you that Roberto Carlos is as fancy a ball juggler as any they have seen.
  • (11) The doctor tries to clear her head before the next act: a little juggler.
  • (12) It makes for quite a weird green room, though: the character comics in one corner with their bags of props; the standups (late, pretending to drink); a juggler from Bhutan looking lost.
  • (13) Thrives on challenges Hunt thrives on challenges – she's "a juggler", says Lorraine Heggessey, the BBC1 controller until 2005.
  • (14) Alain is a talented juggler, a skill he heartily demonstrates before digging around in the boot for a small plywood guitar.

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