(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.
Presto
Definition:
(a.) Quickly; immediately; in haste; suddenly.
(a.) Quickly; rapidly; -- a direction for a quick, lively movement or performance; quicker than allegro, or any rate of time except prestissimo.
Example Sentences:
(1) The long-awaited deal includes Ten taking a 24.99% stake in Foxtel’s advertising business Multi Channel Network (MCN) and the option to become a 10% shareholder in Foxtel’s subscription video on-demand service Presto TV.
(2) Sarah Presto , welfare rights advisor, Macmillan Cancer Support : From a benefits point of view, the main issue carers face is that benefit levels are very low and do not provide someone with a suitable income while they care for another person around the clock ...
(3) We can't just sit around our committee tables and say: Hey presto!
(4) I volunteered with a charity, made tentative enquiries about maybe, one day, possibly becoming a trustee and suddenly hey presto – within the year there I was in the annual report.
(5) It's easily attached - you cut away a bit of the pipe and hey presto.
(6) Choose an action and presto: the ad-supported app makes an animated show of donating that uneaten food to a food bank.
(7) Now they're the movements I most look forward to, while I can doze off during a jaunty presto.
(8) Now, hey presto, the present Labour leader Ed Miliband finds that the prime minister, having ripped his party conference speech apart at the time, has suddenly decided that there is something to be said for those who have revived Ted Heath's jibe about "the unacceptable face of capitalism": indeed, David Cameron is bending over backwards to share Miliband's concerns about "predatory capitalism".
(9) It dragged its feet in the hope that ECO would be relaxed – and hey presto, that bet paid off this week with the government halving ECO requirements by doubling the time it can take.
(10) A local video on-demand competitor to US-owned Netflix, Presto TV is a 50-50 joint venture between Foxtel and Seven West Media.
(11) The panel so far Neil Churchill , director of improving patient experience, NHS England Joseph De Souza cares for his wife Melita who was diagnosed with a tumour in her lung Nikki Hill looked after her mother who had breast and liver cancer Charlotte Argyle , carers support programme manager, Macmillan cancer support Sarah Presto , welfare rights adviser, Macmillan cancer support Steve McIntosh , policy and public affairs manager, Carers UK Eibhlin Inglesby , partnership and policy manager, Sunderland Carers' Centre
(12) Hey presto, that Spanish yield fell back below 7%, shedding almost half a percentage point, a huge move for one day.
(13) Then, hey presto, on Sunday the prime minister hints he might rule one in.
(14) Answer no and then yes, and hey presto – you’ll find yourself bent over a camera at all hours, or glaring hopelessly at hundreds of hours of footage.
(15) The panel ... Jo Salter , researcher, Demos Neil Shadbolt , customer diversity manager, HSBC Sarah Presto , welfare rights adviser, Macmillan Cancer Support Richard Exell , senior labour market expert, TUC Neal Southwick , financial support programme lead, Macmillan Cancer Support Paul Elkins was diagnosed with stage 3 Lymphoma in November 2010.
(16) Add in a suggestion that child benefit for young people over 16 will be withdrawn, too, and hey presto, George Osborne , in denying all these rumours today, can try to make it look as though Christmas has come early.
(17) You pay a small fee to have your house connected to it, and hey presto: a torrent of warm bolognese on tap 24 hours a day.
(18) Thus MacDonald advised 2016 Republican candidates: “If you want to eliminate poverty overnight, you can wipe it out by having stable, two-parent households.” (Note the weaseling inclusion of “stable.”) After all, we determine income inequality by households, so take two people living together in poverty, marry ‘em, and presto!
(19) Six share third place: three classical music specialists, Crotchet , MDT and Presto Classical .