What's the difference between mage and witch?

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.

Witch


Definition:

  • (n.) A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat, and used as a taper.
  • (n.) One who practices the black art, or magic; one regarded as possessing supernatural or magical power by compact with an evil spirit, esp. with the Devil; a sorcerer or sorceress; -- now applied chiefly or only to women, but formerly used of men as well.
  • (n.) An ugly old woman; a hag.
  • (n.) One who exercises more than common power of attraction; a charming or bewitching person; also, one given to mischief; -- said especially of a woman or child.
  • (n.) A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera.
  • (n.) The stormy petrel.
  • (v. t.) To bewitch; to fascinate; to enchant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I fear that I will have to go through another witch-hunt in order to apply for this benefit."
  • (2) "I have been an evil witch, but now I can set light to the house and die happy."
  • (3) The experience of having had intercourse with the devil has in the past been regarded as evidence that the individual is a witch.
  • (4) Smith, a climate change sceptic who has also subpoenaed government scientists’ communications, has accused the attorney generals of a political witch-hunt and for causing a “chilling impact on scientific research and development”.
  • (5) In 2005, four years after Adam's body was found, two women and a man were convicted of child cruelty for torturing and threatening to kill an orphaned refugee who they claimed was a witch.
  • (6) The Witch Is Dead, the Wizard of Oz song which became the focus of an anti-Thatcher campaign on Facebook, was not just about where it would chart – but how much of it the BBC would play.
  • (7) A couple have been jailed for life for torturing and drowning a teenage boy they accused of being a witch.
  • (8) Leave voters, including a soldier, a mother expecting a “Brexit baby” due nine months after the vote, a rare chicken breeder, a witch, and a hammer-wielding Nigel Farage fan, have all been chosen to represent the various faces of Brexit on a new vase by the artist Grayson Perry .
  • (9) On Christmas Day 2010, Kristy's killer spoke to the boy's father, Pierre, accusing the 15-year-old of being a witch and threatening to kill him.
  • (10) Social unrest has become more and more likely, leading to an increasingly bold witch-hunt by the government against opposition voices .
  • (11) Lee denied the charges, saying he had never heard of the Revolutionary Organisation and denouncing the trial as a politically motivated witch-hunt by intelligence officials.
  • (12) The government has launched a separate royal commission into alleged union corruption, which unions have argued is a politically motivated “witch hunt”.
  • (13) Sure, the season’s story, which focuses on Vanessa Ives’s struggle to decode the “memoirs of the devil” and fight a hissing viper pit of Lucifer’s witches, may be pure pulp burlesque, but that’s just the first layer of Penny Dreadful’s charm.
  • (14) I could be the most beautiful drag queen in the world and the most evil witch of a person.
  • (15) Human rights campaigners have called on South Korea’s military to end its “witch-hunt” against gay servicemen, after an investigation into dozens of men prompted debate among presidential candidates over the country’s poor record on LGBT rights.
  • (16) "If we don't push home the idea that calling a child a witch will have grave consequences, then we will continue to have these kind of cases," said Ariyo.
  • (17) At one point, Evans was accused of bullying staff 20 years ago – a claim he said was ridiculous and the result of a witch-hunt.
  • (18) Season two crafted complex characters racked with existential ambivalence – heroines marked for the abyss, fragile, flammable outcasts and desolate prodigies, all of whose private pain was as palpable as the crimson bloodbath head witch Evelyn Poole soaks in.
  • (19) After working in a second-rate singing act with her older sisters and changing her name from Frances Gumm to Judy Garland, she was taken to Hollywood at the age of 13 by her fiercely ambitious mother (whom she later called "the real Wicked Witch of the West").
  • (20) He tried to capture its character – which he described as a “diabolical contraption, a dusty hunk of electric and mechanical hardware that reminded me of the disturbing 1950’s Quatermass science fiction television series” – in a near-lifesize two metre by three metre Portrait of a Dead Witch, which he also intended as a joke about the contemporary craze for computer-generated art.