What's the difference between fairy and pixie?

Fairy


Definition:

  • (n.) Enchantment; illusion.
  • (n.) The country of the fays; land of illusions.
  • (n.) An imaginary supernatural being or spirit, supposed to assume a human form (usually diminutive), either male or female, and to meddle for good or evil in the affairs of mankind; a fay. See Elf, and Demon.
  • (n.) An enchantress.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to fairies.
  • (a.) Given by fairies; as, fairy money.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mood Indigo (18 July) Arguably the most French movie ever made, Romain Duris and Audrey Tautou are quite adorable as fairy tale lovers in Michel Gondry's adaptation of Boris Vian's Froth on the Daydream.
  • (2) Above all, through the offices of his medium and lover, Mary Parish, he entered into elaborate relations both with the fairy world and with God and His Angels.
  • (3) 2 Attract the Comedian’s attention by having bewildering hair, wearing a necklace of multi-coloured fairy lights and launching two flares up into the lighting rig.
  • (4) The belief that heaven or an afterlife awaits us is a "fairy story" for people afraid of death, Stephen Hawking has said.
  • (5) Firstly, the intervention and example of the archetypal celebrity fairy godmother, Oprah Winfrey.
  • (6) She appeared out of nowhere, said a few words that no one could hear and then slowly made her way through the photographers to a cab and vanished: a great, big, fruitily dressed fairy godmother who, when you come to think of it, bears not the slightest resemblance to any of the other seven billion people on the planet.
  • (7) Star performers: Disney Fairies Tinkerbell soared 25.5% year on year; Disney & Me up 7.5% year on year; Power Rangers up 6.1% year on year; Ben 10 had a debut circulation of 70,012; .
  • (8) A leading member of Voronin's party, Mark Tkachuk, told reporters the claims were "fairy tales" and "low-life gossip".
  • (9) Dadd's three paintings Puck (1841), A Fairy – Sunset (1841-42) and Come unto these Yellow Sands (1842) are elegant and precise – the Puck is a baby, sitting on a mushroom in moonlight under a columbine dripping with dewdrops, among grasses also beaded with water, and watches much smaller naked dancers cavorting below him.
  • (10) My interpretation of the fairy-tale follows this direction.
  • (11) The remark evoked a defensive response from those wedded to the ephemeral virtues of the "confidence fairy" – and who are concerned to keep her benevolent figure hovering above Britain's severely weakened economy.
  • (12) 'The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke,' symbolically re-enacts the murder and makes talion restitution.
  • (13) We suggest that the long process of painting 'The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke' recapitulated and made restitution for the murder, encapsulating it so that compulsive expression of violent ideation was largely reduced, allowing other memories and activities to be engaged and expressed.
  • (14) Both superhero comics and fairy tales are equally popular with children: they create fantasy worlds full of violence and dangers which the hero must overcome.
  • (15) It would swirl around that child's head in the manner of a bad fairy from a storybook bringing along a cursed gift to a christening.
  • (16) This paper will review the meaning, usefulness, and importance of fairy tales by discussing three selections from the psychodynamic and developmental perspectives.
  • (17) These fairies have sharp, mischievous features, quite different from the later fairies of Bethlem.
  • (18) Two maturation fairy-tales with a high resonance effect are analysed.
  • (19) With more than 900 participants from 47 different countries, the festival will showcase new poetry from Simon Armitage and former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, talks from the UK's poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy and the former US poet laureate Billy Collins, and events from a wide-ranging list of major names including Jung Chang, Margaret Drabble and Richard Dawkins – fresh from inciting controversy for apparently questioning the merits of fairy tales .
  • (20) Thus suitable fairy tale themes can enhance the experiential insight into dreams.

Pixie


Definition:

  • (n.) An old English name for a fairy; an elf.
  • (n.) A low creeping evergreen plant (Pyxidanthera barbulata), with mosslike leaves and little white blossoms, found in New Jersey and southward, where it flowers in earliest spring.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I resented my own parents on far flimsier grounds (unwillingness to buy me purple suede pixie boots, for instance).
  • (2) Their European tour , which finishes in London on Monday, is sold out and there seems to be a general consensus that Pixies, who suddenly find themselves with everything to prove, are playing ferociously.
  • (3) • Black Francis speaks of Kim Deal's departure from the Pixies
  • (4) We started seriously talking about recording new music about four years ago,” Pixies drummer David Lovering explained.
  • (5) Aside from asking Essex to "put a ring on it", she'll debut that new pixie cut in the UK.
  • (6) The rights of women and of minority populations and vulnerable and low-income people are under threat and we must do everything we can to protect these rights and fight for true equality.” Musician Pixie Geldof, writer Stella Duffy, activist Jack Monroe and US rock musician Thurston Moore are supporting the London march, while in the US organisers claim that many of the musicians who have refused to play at Trump’s inauguration will join them.
  • (7) Scott Morrison says Labor 'selling a unicorn' with negative gearing savings Read more “I can sell them a fantasy or whatever you want to call it, pixie horses, whatever your preferred analogy is, but I’m not going to spin the public a line that there is some simple answer to getting expenditure down,” Morrison told 3AW on Friday.
  • (8) Whatever they’ve been talking about in public – tax cuts, steel workers’ jobs, unicorns, pixie horses , negative gearing, etc – behind the scenes politicians from all parties have been utterly preoccupied for months with this proposed change.
  • (9) The inhibition by PIXI of factor XIa-catalyzed activation of factor IX and its capacity to prevent factor XIa inactivation by alpha 1-protease inhibitor, combined with the specificity of PIXI for factor XIa among serine proteases found in blood, suggest a role for PIXI in the regulation of intrinsic coagulation.
  • (10) He has engineered more than 2,000 records – by bands you mostly won’t have heard of, although a few of them you will, including PJ Harvey, Joanna Newsom, Pixies, Fugazi and that little three-piece out of Seattle, Nirvana .
  • (11) But unlike, say, Duran Duran or the Pixies, they've never really been away, so there's no opportunity to key into the nostalgia circuit.
  • (12) pIXY 321 may offer significant clinical advantages over the individual cytokines.
  • (13) Pixies made me forget I was dressed in a bin-liner I wasn't expecting too much from the Pixies before their second from top slot on the Other stage .
  • (14) Clockwise from top left: Grimshaw with Kelly Osborne; Sara Cox and Annie Mac at the Brit awards; Queens of Noize DJ Tabitha Denholm; dressed as Lily Allen, off to Mark Ronson’s birthday party; at Amy Winehouse’s funeral; with Henry Holland; Pixie Geldof and Alexa Chung at the NME awards afterparty; predecessor Chris Moyles.
  • (15) Look, Pixie Geldof has found a big conker made of twigs, and it might have something to do with River Island, and she looks quite pleased .
  • (16) The full title of this event is the artistic gymnastics, and for 2012 the event seems to want to place the emphasis on art; thus the competitors were played in with a curious acoustic set from singer Pixie Lott, standing in the middle of the floor mat, surrounded by feline acrobats in latex body stockings.
  • (17) The festival in question, Summer in the City, has officially announced some of its July performers: Pixies and Royal Blood on 10 July, and James with Starsailor on 11 July.
  • (18) Double dissolution is a 'live option' as Morrison rules out 'pixie horse' tax cuts Read more The Coalition government kept the option of calling a double-dissolution election up its sleeve, he said, and could pull the trigger if the Senate “becomes inoperable”.
  • (19) Widely read, with a quick wit and sharp intelligence, she was also a devoted partner and mother to her and Geldof's extravagantly-named daughters, Fifi Trixibelle, Peaches and Pixie.
  • (20) "Today, the thrill and pixie dust of Barack Obama's presidency is gone."