Wizard

Wiz´ard

n.	1.	A wise man; a sage. See how from far upon the eastern road The star-led wizards [Magi] haste with odors sweet! - Milton.
	2.	One devoted to the black art; a magician; a conjurer; a sorcerer; an enchanter. The wily wizard must be caught. - Dryden.
a.	1.	Enchanting; charming.
	2.	Haunted by wizards. Where Deva spreads her wizard stream. - Milton.

Noun	1.	wizard - someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field Synonyms: adept, hotshot, maven, mavin, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wiz, sensation, star, ace, genius, champion
	2.	wizard - one who practices magic or sorcery Synonyms: necromancer, sorcerer, magician
Adj.	1.	wizard - possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers; "charming incantations"; "magic signs that protect against adverse influence"; "a magical spell"; "'tis now the very witching time of night"- Shakespeare; "wizard wands"; "wizardly powers" Synonyms: magic, magical, sorcerous, witching, wizardly, charming

1.		wizard - A person who knows how a complex piece of software or hardware works (that is, who grok s it); especially 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.		wizard - A person who is permitted to do things forbidden to ordinary people; one who has wheel privileges on a system.
3.		wizard - A Unix expert, especially a Unix systems programmer. This usage is well enough established that "Unix Wizard" is a recognised 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.
4.		wizard - An interactive help utility that guides the user through a potentially complex task, such as configuring a PPP driver to work with a new modem. Wizards are often implemented as a sequence of dialog boxes which the user can move forward and backward through, filling in the details required. The implication is that the expertise of a human wizard in one of the above senses is encapsulated in the software wizard, allowing the average user to perform expertly.