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Definition: Wand |
WandNoun1. A baton used by a magician or water diviner. 2. A ceremonial or emblematic staff. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "wand" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | A stick used to read the optically coded product labels(bar-code)found on retail sales items. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | A long, relatively thin, stem cutting, as commonly used in propagating Willows. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Wand The footman's wand. (See under Running Footmen .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A wand is a thin, straight stick of wood, or a metal rod of similar shape and size, which is used for magical purposes.
Wicca and Witchcraft
In Wicca and modern-day witchcraft, wands are used for the channeling of energy, and serve a similar purpose to the athame. They are traditionally made of wood, but can also be made of metal or crystal. Practitioners usually get a stick from a tree, or even buy it from a hardware store, and then carve it and add decorations to make it their own; however, ready-made wands can be bought.
The Harry Potter World
In the world of Harry Potter, described by Joanne K. Rowling, wands are needed for the casting of most spellss. There is a wand shop in the Diagon Alley: Ollivander's.Wands have four main characteristics:
There are no two equal wands and Mr. Ollivander says he remember every wand he has ever sold.
- the type of wood they are made of;
- the magical substance that gives it is magical properties;
- the specific quality of motion when they are waved;
- the length.
Some wands we know of which we know:
No non-human creatures are allowed to use a wand. Therefore, we wouldn't see a fairy with a wand in this world.
- Harry Potter: Holly wood, 11", single phoenix feather (from Fawkes)
- Voldemort: Yew wood, 13 1/2", single phoenix feather (also from Fawkes)
- Ron (new wand): Willow wood, 14", unicorn tail hair
Role-playing games
In role-playing game, wands are storage devices for spells, and using the wand releases the spell which it contains. For instance, a certain wand might contain fireball spells, and the number of fireballs it contains is its number of charges; each use of the wand drains a charge, and when there are no charges left the wand can't be used any more. Wands allows player characters who aren't wizards to use spells, and also lets wizards use spells they ordinarily wouldn't be able to cast.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Wand."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
WAND | English | Wide-Angle Neutron Diffraction | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: WandSynonyms: scepter (n), sceptre (n), verge (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: set-to (food & agriculture). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Prediction | Anthropomancy; by the entrails of fishes, Ichthyomancy; by sacrificial fire, Pyromancy; by red-hot iron, Sideromancy; by smoke from the altar, Capnomancy; by mice, Myomancy; by birds, Orniscopy, Ornithomancy;Anthropomancy; by the entrails of fishes, Ichthyomancy; by sacrificial fire, Pyromancy; by red-hot iron, Sideromancy; by smoke from the altar, Capnomancy; by mice, Myomancy; by birds, Orniscopy, Ornithomancy; by a cock picking up grains, Alectryomancy (or Alectromancy); by fishes, Ophiomancy; by herbs, Botanomancy; by water, Hydromancy; by fountains, Pegomancy; by a wand, Rhabdomancy; by dough of cakes, Crithomancy; by meal, Aleuromancy, Alphitomancy; by salt, Halomancy; by dice, Cleromancy; by arrows, Belomancy; by a balanced hatchet, Axinomancy; by a balanced sieve |
Scepter | Noun: scepter, regalia, caduceus; Mercury's rod, Mercury's staff, Mercury's wand; rod of empire, mace, fasces, wand; staff, staff of office; baton, truncheon; flag; (insignia); ensign of authority, emblem of authority, badge of authority, insignia of authority. |
Sorcery | Verb: practice sorcery;Noun: cast a nativity, conjure, exorcise, charm, enchant; bewitch, bedevil; hoodoo, voodoo; entrance, mesmerize, magnetize; fascinate; (influence); taboo; wave a wand; rub the ring, rub the lamp; cast a spell; call up spirits, call up spirits from the vasty deep; raise spirits from the dead. |
Spell | Wand, caduceus, rod, divining rod, lamp of Aladdin; wishing-cap, Fortunatus's cap. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I have Cherlindrea's wand, Bavmorda (Willow; writing credit: Bob Dolman; George Lucas) You stuck me with a God damned homo wand! (Rock 'n' Roll Frankenstein; writing credit: Brian O'Hara; Vito Cannella) Oh, Key of Clow power of magic power of light surrender the wand the force ignite (CardCaptors; writing credit: Jennifer Pertsch) But this here horn it's like magic, you know? Just wave your wand. Like magic (Vacant Lot; writing credit: Paul Branton; Skee Skinner) My wand! Look at my wand (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets; writing credit: Steven Kloves) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Ein Mann geht durch die Wand (1959) The Magic Wand (1912) Willie's Magic Wand (1907) Pueblo Indians Wand Dance (1898) Athlete with Wand (1894) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The Work of winter's wand. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Magic!" by Lynn Cummings Commentary: "Sparkly "Magic" wand trailing stars, ribbons and blue feathers." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Author | Quotation |
Napoleon Bonaparte | Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | One has peeled a willow wand, woven it into a ring, and dropped it on my table |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The test uses a nylon filament mounted on a small wand. The filament delivers a standardized 10-gram force when touched to areas of the foot. Patients who cannot sense pressure from the filament have lost protective sensation and are at risk for developing neuropathic foot ulcers. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Wand" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.07% of the time. "Wand" is used about 141 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 90.07% | 127 | 28,395 |
| Noun (proper) | 9.22% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.71% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 141 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "wand" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Wand | Last name | 400 | 21,812 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "wand". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Matred | N/A | Biblical | Wand of government |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "wand": by a wand ♦ fool's wand ♦ magic wand ♦ magical wand ♦ runic wand ♦ sea wand ♦ swingling wand ♦ wand of peace. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "wand": wand-bearing, wand-like, wand-slim. | |
Ending with "wand": yard-wand. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
hitachi magic wand | 195 | wand weather | 14 |
magic wand | 170 | magic make wand | 13 |
wand | 147 | wizard wand | 13 |
harry potter wand | 92 | fairy wand | 12 |
violet wand | 67 | making wand | 11 |
prince wand | 65 | magic wand massager | 11 |
tv wand | 63 | water wand | 11 |
bar code wand | 30 | wand scanner | 11 |
news wand | 29 | watering wand | 10 |
magic wand vibrator | 26 | hitachi magic wand massager | 10 |
derma wand | 24 | harry potter magic wand | 10 |
bubble wand | 22 | lavender wand | 10 |
orgasm video wand | 19 | car magic wand wash | 8 |
hitachi wand | 18 | moon sailor wand | 8 |
crystal wand | 17 | polaris spa wand | 8 |
go for wand | 16 | wiccan wand | 8 |
wand bar code scanner | 16 | massage wand | 7 |
hitachi magic wand vibrator | 15 | bug wand | 7 |
rembrandt wand whitening | 14 | magic shop wand | 7 |
shop wand | 14 | doppler wand | 6 |
degaussing wand | 6 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "wand"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | thupër (bar, birch, cane, drumstick, fiddlestick, ramrod, rod, stick, withy), skeptër (baton, Mace, scepter, sceptre, truncheon), shkop magjik. (various references) | |
Arabic | قطعة خشب الرماية, قضيب (bar, baton, draw-bar, mace, penis, phallus, pointer, rail, rod, shaft, staff, stem, stick, switch), عصا الساحر, صولجان (mace, rod, scepter, sceptre, verge). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | жезъл (baton, rod, staff, truncheon, verge, warder), палка (billet, club, cosh, stick, truncheon). (various references) | |
Chinese | 鞭子 (lash, lash-up, Whip). (various references) | |
Czech | prut (bar, rod, stick, weal), hùlka (cane, walking stick), hůlka. (various references) | |
Danish | stikling (cutting, planting shoot, pole, rooted vine, rooting, set, sett), saettestang (pole, sett), sætstang (pole, sett), optisk læsepen, aflægger (layer). (various references) | |
Dutch | stokje (little stick, rod, stick, switch), spitsroede (rod, switch), roede (decametre, pole, rod, switch), gard (rod, switch). (various references) | |
Esperanto | vergo (rod, switch). (various references) | |
Faeroese | rís (rice, rod, switch), greinar (rod, switch). (various references) | |
Farsi | چوب میزانه (Baton), چوب گمانه , گرز (Club, Mallet, Maul), ترکه (Bequest, Bough, Heirloom, Offshoot, Rod, Scion, Spray, Sprig, Switch, Twig, Wattle), عصا (Bat, Cane, Rod, Stick). (various references) | |
Finnish | sauva (baton, crosier, rod, staff, stick), lukukynä. (various references) | |
French | baguette, badine. (various references) | |
German | Stab (bar, baton, cane, crook, crosier, dipstick, headquarters, Mace, panel, pole, rail, rod, staff, stave, stick, stump, swab), Lesestift, Zauberstab (magic wand). (various references) | |
Greek | ράβδοσ (bandy, bar, baton, crook, drub, ferule, ingot, perch, rod, shaft, staff, stick, truncheon, verge, walking stick), γραφίδα ανάγνωσης, μαγικό ραβδί. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מקל תפארה (sceptre), שרביט (rod, staff). (various references) | |
Hungarian | pálca (baton, ferule, rod, staff, stave, stick). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tongkat (cane, goad, paddle, staff, stick, truncheon). (various references) | |
Italian | piantone (last peg, pole, sett), bastoncino (stick, switch), bacchetta magica, bacchetta (baton, ferule, pointer, ramrod, rod, stick), astone (pole, sett, stripling). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ワラント債 (110 camera, 6-8 seat automobile with sliding door, bonds with warrants, bow-wow, cost of maintaining a pet dog, doggie fashion, down one out, katakana for "we", katakana for "wi", migratory bird, minivan, non-returnable bottle, once through, one, one down, one step at a time, one touch, one two, one way bottle, one-length, one-man, one-man bus, one-man show, one-piece dress, one-point relief, one-sided, one-step, people-mover, punch, studio apartment, studio flat, version, version-up, violin, vitality, warrant loan, wonder, wonderland), ウォール街 (surveillance, Ukraine, ukulele, umlaut, vodka, Vostok, Wall Street, walnut, wanted, washable, wash-and-wear, washer, watch, watchdog, watching, watchman, won, wood, woodcraft, woodpecker, Worcestersauce). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ワンド , ウォンド . (various references) | |
Korean | 지팡이 (Cane, Canes). (various references) | |
Manx | slat(t) [f] (batten, birch, cane, mace, penis of animal; waterline, rail, rod, slat, stem, switch, verge), slat (batten, birch, cane, mace, penis of animal; waterline, rail, rod, slat, stem, switch, verge). (various references) | |
Norwegian | tryllestav (magic wand). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | andway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vara (baton, cane, ell, fish rod, herd, pole, rod, staff, stake, stalk, stick, switch, wattle). (various references) | |
Romanian | vergea (birch, rod, rolling pin, whip), vargã (rod, stick), toiag (baton, rod, staff, stick, truncheon), baghetã (rod, stick, switch). (various references) | |
Russian | палочка (bacillus, rod). (various references) | |
Scottish | slat (a rod, rod, switch, twig, yard). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | palica (baton, staff, stick, truncheon, verge), štapić. (various references) | |
Spanish | varita mágica, vareta (pole, sett), vástago (offshoot, offside, offspring, scion, seedling, stem, tiller), barra (bar, counter, desk, loaf, pole, quarterstaff, rod, stick). (various references) | |
Swedish | trollspö (magic wand), taktpinne (baton), streckkodsläspenna, stickling (cutting, slip). (various references) | |
Turkish | sihirbaz değneği, orkestra şefinin çubuğu, asa (baton, rod, scepter, sceptre, staff, stick), çubuk (baton, chopstick, rib, rod, stave, stick, strip, stripe, switch, tobacco pipe). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | чарівна паличка, тонка паличка, тичка, жезл (baculus, baton, rod, staff, truncheon, warder), пагін (imp, offset, sapling), диригентська паличка (baton). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | quyền trượng, đũa thần. (various references) | |
Welsh | llath (yard). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | virga. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "wand": wander, wandered, wanderer, wanderers, wandering, wanderings, wanderlust, wanderlusts, wanderoo, wanderoos, wanders, wandle, wands. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "wand": yardwand. (additional references) | |
Words containing "wand": yardwands. (additional references) | |
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"Wand" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: awend, Awenydd, awind, dwind, Nawdc, Waana, Wahn, wam, Wana, wande, Wando, wani, wanna, wanny, wano, wanq, wanz, wayd, wedn, wenda, wendt, wenid, whand, wijd, wn, wond, wund, wyan, zand. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "wand" (pronounced wÄ"nd) |
| 3 | -Ä" n d | beyond, blond, blonde, bond, conned, correspond, donned, fond, frond, Monde, pond, respond. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: dawn. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-n-w" | |
-1 letter: and, awn, daw, naw, wad, wan. | |
-2 letters: ad, an, aw, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-n-w" | |
+1 letter: adown, awned, dawen, dawns, dewan, diwan, drawn, wands, waned. | |
+2 letters: dawing, dawned, deewan, dewans, diwans, fawned, gnawed, inward, onward, pawned, snawed, unawed, undraw, wading, wander, wandle, wanned, wanted, warden, warned, weaned, yawned. | |
+3 letters: cowhand, dawning, dawting, deewans, drawing, endways, gowaned, handsaw, indrawn, inwards, lowland, manward, onwards, prawned, predawn, redrawn, spawned, sunward, swanked, swanned, twanged, undrawn, undraws, unsawed, unwaxed, vanward, wadding, wagoned, wakanda, wakened, wanders, wangled, wardens, warding, weasand, weazand, wessand, wetland, whanged, windage, windbag, windway, womaned, woodman. | |
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