What's the difference between magician and prestidigitator?

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.

Prestidigitator


Definition:

  • (n.) One skilled in legerdemain or sleight of hand; a juggler.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Prestidigitation with the OBR’s useful over-optimism on growth and tax receipts – and by back-loading cuts previously front-loaded.
  • (2) She had too much of a sense of humour for Cirque du Soleil – the funniest thing ever seen in its ring was the shocking pink octopus outfit she did for its Varekai season in 2002 – but was perfectly suited to creating visuals for David Copperfield prestidigitating on Broadway in 1996, and for Grace Jones touring in 2009.

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