What's the difference between warlock and witch?

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.

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.

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