wizard

n.

1. One who practices magic; a sorcerer or magician.
2. A skilled or clever person: a wizard at math.
3. Archaic. A sage.

adj.

1. Chiefly British Slang. Excellent.
2. Archaic. Of or relating to wizards or wizardry.

[Middle English wisard : wise, wise; see wise¹ + -ard, pejorative suff.; see -ard.]

Instructional help in an application or system development environment that guides the user through a series of multiple choice questions to accomplish a task. For the most part, wizards are more effective than the help menus found in most applications, which often border on the atrocious. However, a quality wizard requires an intelligent sequence of steps and clear questions. See help system.

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noun

A person with a high degree of knowledge or skill in a particular field: ace, adept, authority, dab hand, expert, master, past master, professional, proficient. Informal whiz. Slang crackerjack. Chiefly British dab². See ability/inability.

n

Definition: person who is highly skilled
Antonyms: amateur, rookie

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1. Transitively, a person who knows how a complex piece of software or hardware works (that is, who groks it); esp. someone who can find and fix bugs quickly in an emergency. Someone is a hacker if he or she has general hacking ability, but is a wizard with respect to something only if he or she has specific detailed knowledge of that thing. A good hacker could become a wizard for something given the time to study it.

2. The term ‘wizard’ is also used intransitively of someone who has extremely high-level hacking or problem-solving ability.

3. A person who is permitted to do things forbidden to ordinary people; one who has wheel privileges on a system.

4. A Unix expert, esp. a Unix systems programmer. This usage is well enough established that ‘Unix Wizard’ is a recognized job title at some corporations and to most headhunters.

See guru, lord high fixer. See also deep magic, heavy wizardry, incantation, magic, mutter, rain dance, voodoo programming, wave a dead chicken.

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A late medieval term, derived from ‘wise’ and always implying arcane knowledge and mysterious authority, generally derived from written symbols and designs, and sacred words in ancient languages. It is used of Merlin; of local heroes such as Jack o' Kent, who could outwit the Devil and command his services; but also, in real life, of village charmers and cunning men. The latter were also sometimes called conjurers.

IN BRIEF: n. - Someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field ; One who practices magic or sorcery

She was a wizard at working through any computer difficulty imaginable.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - [comp.] guide, hjælp, troldmand
adj. - magisk, forhekset

Nederlands (Dutch)
tovenaar, slimmerik, kanjer, expert

Français (French)
n. - magicien, (fig) (avoir) le génie de, (Comput) séries d'instructions en ligne
adj. - (GB) super (fam)

Deutsch (German)
n. - Zauberer, Genie
adj. - ausgezeichnet, Zauber-

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - μάγος, θαυματοποιός, (μτφ.) άσος, ξεφτέρι, μάγος, (Η/Υ) λειτουργικό βοήθημα
adj. - υπέροχος

Italiano (Italian)
mago, genio

Português (Portuguese)
n. - mágico (m), assistente (m)
adj. - excelente

Русский (Russian)
колдун, чародей, волшебник, знахарь, человек выдающихся способностей, волшебный, великолепный, околдовать

Español (Spanish)
n. - asistente
adj. - excelente, tremendo, fenomenal

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - trollkarl, wizard (data)
adj. - trollkunnig, skicklig, förtrollande

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
男巫, 鬼才, 术士, 男巫的, 有魔力的, 巫术的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 男巫, 鬼才, 術士
adj. - 男巫的, 有魔力的, 巫術的

한국어 (Korean)
n. - (남자) 마법사, 요술쟁이, 비상한 재능을 가진 사람
adj. - 마법사의, 훌륭한

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 魔法使い, 奇術師, 名人, 天才

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) تعليمات التشغيل (صفه) سحري, ساحر, مسحور‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮מכשף, קוסם, אשף, גאון‬
adj. - ‮מצויין, כביר, נפלא‬

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