wand
3
3.1
- noun
- /wænd/
:
varilla
- The magician waved his wand, and a dove appeared from thin air.
- bubble wand
It's got a conical wand and let's give it a go.
- It's got a conical wand and let's give it a go.
- Look at that pine cone wand that looks like a a little tree.
- Oh, that is a skinny wand with some very short bristles.
- The beauty of this is that the tip of the wand is quite tapered.
- I kind of almost blink into the wand sometimes.
- I thought these were going to be so amazing because the wand is tiny.
Examples
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A prothonotary warbler in its iridescent yellow-green plumage perches on a waving wand of Virginia sweet spire.
Academic text (2009) -
Like our wand is incredible at separating your lashes, which I'm really glad a lot of people have also picked up on and appreciate.
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This is the wand, which is really cool and different.
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It's like, have you ever seen a wand like this?
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The colors are so fun and the wand is also blue.
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I thought these were going to be so amazing because the wand is tiny.
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I find that this wand is way too bendy for me.
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The doll lights up when you touch the wand to her medallion on her dress.
Blog text (29) -
The item selected for vocal mode instruction was a container of liquid bubbles and a bubble wand that the researcher operated.
Academic text (2013) -
Cattail flowers are hard green cylinders at first, which mature into cottony-topped brown wands.
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
148
2.1
A long thin stick of metal or wood used for a specific purpose
105
4.5
A long stick used for support or as a sign of authority
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4.2
A thin stick thought to have magic powers or a simple solution to a hard problem
A decorated stick carried in ceremonies to show a person's role
Idioms
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Wand comes from an old word for a thin 'branch' or 'shoot'. That is why we call slim parts of some plants 'wands' and also use the same word for small sticks in craft, decoration, or magic.