What's the difference between illusionist and magician?

Illusionist


Definition:

  • (n.) One given to illusion; a visionary dreamer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There was more magic on ITV at 9.10pm with The Illusionists, but it was unable to pull an overnights rabbit out of the hat, with just under 2 million viewers, an 8.5% share.
  • (2) Not only did this life-affirming piece of mischief make the perfect counterpoint to the self-harming entrepreneurial initiative of the emaciated illusionist, it also enabled a TV audience of millions to get a taste of music they might not otherwise have heard, as Jus' a Rascal was beamed around the world as the unofficial soundtrack to the much sought after news footage of the end of Blaine's 44-day fast.
  • (3) When Bertolt Brecht’s Berliner Ensemble visited Britain in 1956, he was stunned by its anti-illusionistic epics.
  • (4) TV illusionist Derren Brown has often used his act to denounce paranormal practices.
  • (5) TV illusionist Derren Brown said: "It's important people don't think that a test is a way of debunking or disproving.
  • (6) He wrote: "Like the TV illusionist, he wants you to believe something unbelievable.
  • (7) He and the illusionist David Blaine have also been best friends for years (what does he think about Blaine's current work?
  • (8) Like any illusionist worth his salt he is wary of explaining this too closely: "My work is really either things that bother me or things that I like," he says at one point.
  • (9) Jonathan Ross (the floppy-haired one) hosts as amateur illusionists try to baffle the duo in order to win a support slot on their Vegas show.
  • (10) Classical temples in ancient Greece show two deterministic illusionistic principles of architecture, which govern their functional design: geometric proportionalism and a set of illusion-strengthening rules in the proportionalism's "stochastic margin".
  • (11) Then there's a musical director, an aerial choreographer, a puppet designer and an illusionist."
  • (12) Son of the famous illusionist David Berglas, Marvin entertains VIPs and sponsors on match days and even plays in the Gunners' celebrity supporters team.
  • (13) The third episode of the drama, starring Simon Baker as a detective who uses illusionist's tricks to get witnesses and suspects to reveal information about crimes, was Five's most watched show of the night with a 13% share of the audience.

Magician


Definition:

  • (n.) One skilled in magic; one who practices the black art; an enchanter; a necromancer; a sorcerer or sorceress; a conjurer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In The Prestige (2006), Christopher Nolan’s film about two battling magicians, Bowie featured as the inventor Nikola Tesla.
  • (2) Asked on Wednesday if it was disingenuous to say Labor axed the funding, he replied: “The Coalition are like a bunch of B-team magicians trying to make you look everywhere except where the magic trick is actually happening so you can’t work out what’s going on.
  • (3) Sage Gateshead, 4–7 July Troilus and Cressida Multimedia magician Elizabeth LeCompte from New York's the Wooster Group takes on this most problematic of problem comedies.
  • (4) Photograph: Screengrab 8.31pm GMT Dicky Bird and Magicial Dynamo The esteemed and ancient Dickie Bird is in some kind of montage with young magician Dynamo.
  • (5) This article is based on the authors' book "Physician or Magician: The Myths and Realities of Patient Care" (McGraw Hill and Hemisphere, 1978).
  • (6) Amid the celebrations, held in front of a strange mix of celebrities that included Andy Murray, Danny Cipriani, Dynamo the magician and Katie Price, Haye was magnanimous enough to praise Chisora's durability and what he described as "one of the best chins" he has faced.
  • (7) His visions were sold to the city with modest pronouncements such as: “All Architects are magicians.
  • (8) remarkable.." Teller (is he related to the atomic physicist or the magician?
  • (9) HIS STORY Paul Daniels, magician, 76 We met thanks to the Ayatollah.
  • (10) She left to set up her own company, initially called Esage Lab (“I was thinking of something ‘sage’, as in a wizard or a magician,” she said).
  • (11) Crowley, who was also a mountaineer, yoga enthusiast, occultist, poet, painter, rumoured spy and magician, became known in the press as “the wickedest man in the world” after the wife of one of his disciples blamed her husband’s death on drinking the blood of a sacrificed cat.
  • (12) Perhaps it was the searing heat , or perhaps it was the American magician dangling outside Tower Bridge in a box.
  • (13) These texts, most of them based on older texts dating possibly from 3000 B.C., are comparatively free of the magician's approach to treating illness.
  • (14) Alongside the pictures of Hou and Xu with Mao and other leaders, there is one of their son with the magician David Copperfield.
  • (15) Or I lost it.” Muhammad Ali: fighter, joker, magician, religious disciple, preacher Read more Another memory I have of that time is of waking up one morning in Ali’s home and hearing Lonnie cry out, “Oh my God!
  • (16) It was an act of misdirection worthy of a cheap stage magician, shifting responsibility for economic failure onto those who were barely out of primary school when it happened, a shameless act of divide and rule.
  • (17) Officers working on the case believe that the level of expertise involved could show the perpetrators imported a magician or priest to carry out the ritual.
  • (18) The magician's forceps phenomenon as first discovered by Mitsui in exotropia is supposed to be a blocking reflex through the tendon organ.
  • (19) Astronaut Chris Hadfield, magician David Blaine, author Tim Ferriss and actress Felicia Day are among its “most loved” broadcasters at launch – a metric based on how many hearts they’ve received from viewers.
  • (20) 'They are warriors, sorcerers and magicians,' she says.

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