What's the difference between sorcerer and warlock?

Sorcerer


Definition:

  • (n.) A conjurer; an enchanter; a magician.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He set sail on his $15m yacht Sorcerer II on an unending voyage with the mission, along the way, "to put everything that Darwin missed into context" and map the whole world's genetic components.
  • (2) Then, zipping his cagoule purposefully, this sonic sorcerer and eccentric sweetheart issues a parting shot.
  • (3) 'They are warriors, sorcerers and magicians,' she says.
  • (4) The story begins in 16th-century China, where an evil sorcerer, The Son Of Hell, seeks to take over the world.
  • (5) You’ll often hear a director or production designer complaining that a particular neighbourhood “does not look enough like itself”, and making various cosmetic changes – a nondescript wall in the East Village might be gussied up with flyers for punk shows, for example, or a Chinatown byway given additional Chinese signage and decoration, as was done on Disney’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.
  • (6) Donald Trump remains in the Oval Office, making decisions about whom to explode next (in the interview he calls this responsibility “the bigness of it all”), not gathering dust on a sorcerer’s shelf.
  • (7) For infertility, witches and spirits can be responsible but suspicion focuses mostly on the evil-doing of another individual, corresponding to the classical description of a sorcerer, and the "witch" or sorcerer is generally a very close relative, possibly even the husband, and sometimes the woman herself, especially when the ritual fails.
  • (8) The 90s saw a move into big-budget action – Armageddon, The Rock, Con Air – while today, thanks to a Disney deal, he's responsible for more family-oriented juggernauts: The Sorcerer's Apprentice and Prince Of Persia weren't enormous successes; the four Pirates Of The Caribbean films were.
  • (9) As well as playing Smaug, Cumberbatch is voicing the Necromancer, the evil Mirkwood sorcerer who is revealed in the Lord of the Rings to be the evil spirit Sauron.
  • (10) Iger could end up playing the role of the Sorcerer's Apprentice, serving under the tutelage of Jobs, the 21st-century conjuror who transforms every industry he touches.
  • (11) Under the influence of the Christian church, and because of the progress of modern medicine, the power of the sorcerers and healers gradually decreased.
  • (12) The plants are used by 3 principal practitioners: 1) curanderos (healers), who tend to specialize in the care of certain diseases; 2) herbalists, who use many of the materials used in traditional medicine; and 3) brujos, who are sorcerers and witches.
  • (13) 'Diviners', 'medicinemen', 'witches' and 'sorcerers' are defined and distinguished.
  • (14) The traditional providers are the traditional birth attendants, the folk healers, herbalists, faith healers, and the so-called witches and sorcerers, which are not treated in a derogatory manner in the Philippines.
  • (15) The early-evening crowd in this cosy central London pub have no idea that a sonic sorcerer stands in their midst.
  • (16) Isis decapitates its victims, just like our friends the Saudis – but again, they kill alleged “sorcerers” off-camera.
  • (17) The looming debut of Benedict Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange , a key member of The Avengers in some of the original comic books, has also inspired speculation that the sorcerer supreme could eventually join the superhero team on the big screen.
  • (18) A powder prepared by Haitian voodoo sorcerers for the making of zombis was extracted with acetic acid, the extract concentrated and applied to a small cation exchange column followed by elution with water and then acetic acid.
  • (19) The Marvel universe’s sorcerer supreme is a figure expected to have a central role in the studio’s ambitious next wave of superhero movies.
  • (20) Doctor Strange, who first debuted in 1963, is a former neurosurgeon who protects the planet against magical and mystical threats in his role as Sorcerer Supreme.

Warlock


Definition:

  • (n.) A male witch; a wizard; a sprite; an imp.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a warlock or warlock; impish.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hunters have a double jump, Titans get a jet-pack while warlocks have a glide move, which Bakken describes as, “a more parabolic jet pack”.
  • (2) < Dragon queen ... Daenerys and fire-breathing pet h2> Dragons, warlocks But forget about Drogo – he died in season one, leaving the Khaleesi to a) hatch her ancestral dragon eggs; b) set her new fire-breathing dragons on a warlock who wanted to mess with her mind; and c) plan a return to King's Landing to claim what's hers and, you'd suspect, submit her rivals to dragon fire.
  • (3) When the game starts, each participant gets to choose from three different character classes: hunters, warlocks and titans.
  • (4) Players are also able to intricately personalise their characters – which come in three classes: warriors, warlocks and titans – fine-tuning their special abilities and unlocking exotic clothing, weapons and armour.
  • (5) That same year, here in Britain, Terence Fisher's The Devil Rides Out portrayed comparable fears, the young becoming the hypnotised prey of a warlock of a certain age.
  • (6) Also, it's possible for you to roll three active characters, one of each class, so you may well find a nice little warlock item when you're playing as a titan – and that's fine, it isn't wasted.
  • (7) "So you can say, 'great, when I roll a warlock I'm absolutely going to use this' and into the vault it goes.
  • (8) There’s the Titan (the character that looks and plays closest to Halo’s protagonist space marine, Master Chief), the Hunter (the class that combines weapons proficiency with space magic) and the Warlock, the mage of the group.
  • (9) Warlocks, meanwhile, produce the Nova Bomb, an area-of-effect mega-blast that scatters groups of aliens like bowling pins; or there's Radiance, a sort of buff power that enhances the stats of the entire fire team for a limited period.
  • (10) Each Guardian will be equally deadly - whether they’re a human survivor from Earth, an other-worldly Awoken of mysterious origins, or an EXO war machine that has been built to protect humanity.” In terms of character classes, there are currently three options: the meaty titans, the more-tactical hunters and the warlocks, effectively a futuristic take on fantasy RPG magic users.
  • (11) The bookshelves are crammed with titles that rather suit the burgeoning yellow revolution: Real Change, England in the New Millennium, Reinventing the State – and, for some reason, Wilbur Smith's Warlock.
  • (12) The melee options are all different too, with titans getting a running shoulder charge, hunters a throwing knife and warlocks a siphon which drains energy.
  • (13) You may be in a PvsP match and see a warlock using a different grenade than you and pairing that with a different passive ability, perhaps applying damage-over-time effects or health regeneration, and you may say, 'that looks really great I want to try that'.
  • (14) He was an emaciated, snow-blind wreck, cowering in his Beverly Hills home, in terror of psychic attack from warlocks Bowie apologised many times for his remarks, blaming drugs for bringing him “to the edge of calamity” – but absolutist notions had long haunted his work.
  • (15) October 31 1989: Two hours in the city of Toronto and already I had been visited by six ghosts, three goblins, a warlock and several witches!
  • (16) In reality he was an emaciated, snow-blind wreck, cowering in his rented Beverly Hills home in terror of psychic attack from Hollywood warlocks, exorcising an unwelcome demon from his swimming pool.
  • (17) Weapons are all available to all classes, but, say, a warlock helmet is class-specific so you pick it up and put it in the vault.

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