wizard of oz
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.67 in modern English
35
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person, believed to have magical powers because of awe-inspiring displays, but, as ultimately revealed, ordinary.
noun
A person simulating the operation of a supposed intelligent device, usually in an experiment.
Example Sentences
- "Nevertheless, as a great and terrible being, the Kafkan patriarch is in fact more like the Wizard of Oz than the Lord God of Israel. The dread-inspiring aura with which the father surrounds himself is based not on power and glory, but on bluff and bravado."
- "2006 October 25, Joe Scarborough, interview with Bill Mahar, Scarborough Country, MSNBC I'm not one of these people that say, “Listen, we should bow down to the Wizard of Oz ’cause we don’t know what’s going on behind that curtain.”"
- "But as I interpret both Honest Abe and P. T. Barnum, the Wizards of Oz of the world have more influence than Congress or the Supreme Court."
- "“Sort of a 'Wizard of Oz,' pull the curtain back and show how the sausage is made,” Alexandra Pelosi says."
- "The goal of Neimo is to provide designers with a "Wizard of Oz" environment to observe and evaluate how users interact with multimodal interfaces."
- "Once a preliminary application design is complete, a wizard-of-oz study can help test and refine the interface."