What's the difference between mage and sage?

Mage


Definition:

  • (n.) A magician.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Highlight: Mike Magee’s opening day hat-trick against the team he ended the season with.
  • (2) Subminiature single element and rosette strain gauges used for deformation measurement were prepared for surgical implantation using a technique published previously (Szivek JA, Magee FP.
  • (3) Maged understands better than most the menace of coastal erosion, which is steadily ingesting the edge of Egypt in some places at an astonishing rate of almost 100m a year.
  • (4) Contrast that with the trajectory of another of the season's early stars: Mike Magee.
  • (5) In that way, Magee has shed his bridesmaid's perception, a reputation that may soon attach itself to McInerney.
  • (6) As discussion of his hot start hinted, Magee was never going to eclipse the shadows of the Galaxy's other stars: Robbie Keane and Landon Donovan.
  • (7) A century and a half later, Maged is still farming his family's fields.
  • (8) Since the first observations of MAGEE and BARNES in 1956 on the carcinogenicity of NDMA, this compound was reported to be carcinogenic in a large number of animal species including mammals, birds, amphibia and fish.
  • (9) Fibber Magees, tucked away up an alley near the Trade Centre District, is an exception.
  • (10) In 1951, he was appointed professor of French at Magee University College, Derry, and took a similar post at Newcastle University in 1960.
  • (11) We examined the eyes of 2986 neonates admitted to the Magee-Womens Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit from January 1, 1977, through December 31, 1985, who weighed less than 2000 g at birth or were exposed to added oxygen and later discharged.
  • (12) We don’t make any comments on the grand jury,” said Magee.
  • (13) In order to decrease the proportion of antibody-coated spermatozoa in the inseminated populations, washed spermatozoa were immuno-adsorbed on Mage's plates before swim-up migration.
  • (14) Evaluation phase: Implausible data: Obstruction of double lumen catheter as well as loss of glucose sensor sensitivity result in inappropriate data with consecutive incorrect computation of glycemic indices such as MAGE and M-value.
  • (15) The exception is Maged, who owns six feddan (about six acres) of land near the village of el-Hadadi.
  • (16) Low point: Trading Magee to the Chicago Fire for the right to sign Robbie Rogers.
  • (17) Chicago's would-be savior came through again on Saturday, his 75th minute finish into the top of Zac MacMath's net giving the Fire a crucial three points: Magee's six goals in 10 games for the Galaxy had many questioning whether LA was giving too much to get Robbie Rogers.
  • (18) When the game began though, in the sunshine of LA Galaxy's Stub Hub Center where Magee had done much of his good work in recent years, Wondolowski wasted no time in reminding Jurgen Klinsmann of his own credentials, scoring after just four minutes.
  • (19) Mary Murdoch, an Ibrox-born Corby resident of 30-odd years, shares Magee's bafflement.
  • (20) It’s made even worse when Magee scores 21 goals and is the league MVP.

Sage


Definition:

  • (n.) A suffruticose labiate plant (Salvia officinalis) with grayish green foliage, much used in flavoring meats, etc. The name is often extended to the whole genus, of which many species are cultivated for ornament, as the scarlet sage, and Mexican red and blue sage.
  • (n.) The sagebrush.
  • (superl.) Having nice discernment and powers of judging; prudent; grave; sagacious.
  • (superl.) Proceeding from wisdom; well judged; shrewd; well adapted to the purpose.
  • (superl.) Grave; serious; solemn.
  • (n.) A wise man; a man of gravity and wisdom; especially, a man venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave philosopher.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Add the onion, cook for three minutes, stirring, until softened, then add the wine, sage, lemon peel, lemon juice and 150ml water.
  • (2) Sage did not suffer fools gladly, and often the world seemed increasingly full of them.
  • (3) "The economy has lost X billion pounds", pronounces some sage.
  • (4) Jeremy Corbyn is the main reason I’m not sure about the whole thing anymore,” said Sage, a freelance illustrator.
  • (5) Sage Kotsenburg loves snowboarding for all its unexpected surprises.
  • (6) Eleven women patients completed the SAGE on two occasions, three months apart.
  • (7) The Shakespearian critic and scholar, Nicholas Brooke, who had taught Sage at Durham, was also there, as was the writer, Jonathan Raban.
  • (8) When this happens, it is tempting to nod sagely and feign comprehension.
  • (9) Reconstructions with 53 organism-antimicrobial combinations were performed at 0, 4, 8, and 24 h in which the FLORA-STAT system was compared with two boric acid-based systems (Urine C&S Transport Kit [Becton Dickinson VACUTAINER Systems, Rutherford, N.J.]; Sage Urine Collection Kit for Culture [Sage Products, Inc., Cary, Ill.]) and untreated urine.
  • (10) The most active were oak bark, sage and St. John's wort grass WAG extracts, horse radish root and leaf AG extracts, celandine grass WA extract; bur marigold and yarrow grass WA extracts were active towards S. aureus.
  • (11) Hobsbawm, being a sage member of the Communist Party, warned against their utopianism, but I took to them like a fish to water.
  • (12) The geranyl and linalyl precursors were shown to be mutually competitive substrates (inhibitors) of the relevant cyclization enzymes isolated from Salvia officinalis (sage) and Tanacetum vulgare (tansy) by the mixed substrate analysis method, demonstrating that isomerization and cyclization take place at the same active site.
  • (13) 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.
  • (14) 800g veal shoulder, cut into 4cm dice 1 tbsp plain flour Salt and black pepper 30g unsalted butter 60ml olive oil 1 large onion, peeled and roughly chopped 200ml dry white wine 8 large sage leaves Shaved skin of 1 lemon, plus 3 tbsp lemon juice 1 550g head puntarelle (or 2 heads white chicory, cut widthways into 3cm-long segments) 1 small celeriac, peeled and chopped into 2cm dice (500g net weight) 200g pancetta, cut into 1cm dice 20g capers For the salad 1 clove garlic, peeled and crushed 1 anchovy fillet, finely chopped 2 tsp red-wine vinegar 2 tbsp olive oil 1 white chicory, cut in half lengthways and then into long, 0.5cm thick wedges (or the rest of the puntarelle, if using) 80g rocket Toss the veal in flour seasoned with a teaspoon of salt and a good grind of pepper, until evenly coated, then tap off any excess.
  • (15) If an Orthodox teacher or social worker were to follows the sages' ruling, they would be breaking the law.
  • (16) At its meeting in July 1988, the Scientific Advisory Group of Experts of the Programme for Vaccine Development (SAGE) concluded that it was appropriate to discuss the general topic of live vectors and proceeded to arrange a meeting to discuss the present position and to prepare a report on the following key issues: requirements for safety and efficacy; immunological factors which may influence efficacy; medical constraints on use.
  • (17) As panic spread, and Britain's own financial institutions came under massive pressure, the man who had for 12 consecutive months been warning of just this sort of crisis turned overnight from lonely maverick into sage with the crystal ball.
  • (18) So I'm treating you, in this situation, like a sage, like you have all the answers.
  • (19) As with so much of her work, Sage's engagement with women's writing combined passion with intelligence.
  • (20) All these ideas occur in Sage's dense, but not especially long, first paragraph.