What does WAND mean?
Definitions for WAND
wɒndwand
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Princeton's WordNet
wandnoun
a rod used by a magician or water diviner
wandnoun
a thin supple twig or rod
"stems bearing slender wands of flowers"
scepter, sceptre, verge, wandnoun
a ceremonial or emblematic staff
baton, wandnoun
a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra or choir
Wiktionary
wandnoun
A stick or staff.
wandnoun
An instrument shaped like a stick or staff such as a curling wand.
wandnoun
a magic wand.
wandnoun
A branch or stalk, especially of willow.
wandnoun
A suit of the minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.
wandverb
To scan (e.g. a passenger at an airport) with a metal detector.
Etymology: From windan.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Wandnoun
Etymology: vaand, Danish.
The skilful shepherd peel’d me certain wands. William Shakespeare.
With a whip or wand, if you strike the air, the sharper and quicker you strike it, the louder sound it giveth. Francis Bacon.
His spear, to equal which the tallest pine
Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast
Of some great admiral, were but a wand. John Milton.A child runs away laughing, with good smart blows of a wand on his back, who would have cried for an unkind word. John Locke, on Education.
Though he had both spurs and wand, they seemed rather marks of sovereignty, than instruments of punishment. Philip Sidney.
He held before his decent steps a silver wand. John Milton.
Nay, lady, sit; if I but wave this wand,
Your nerves are all chain’d up in alabaster. John Milton.Picus bore a buckler in his hand;
His other wav’d a long divining wand. Dryden.
Wikipedia
wand
WAND (channel 17) is a television station licensed to Decatur, Illinois, United States, serving the Central Illinois region as an affiliate of NBC. Owned by Block Communications, the station maintains studios on South Side Drive in Decatur, and its transmitter is located along I-72, between Oreana and Argenta. Although WAND's call letters sound like "wand" if pronounced as a word, the station is never referred to in that manner; it is always mentioned on air as "W-A-N-D."
ChatGPT
wand
A wand is a thin, handheld stick or rod made of wood, metal, or some other material, often associated with magical or mystical powers. It is commonly used as a prop in the practice of magic, and is also a popular symbol in fiction, especially in fantasy literature and media. In a broader context, it could also refer to a rod-like instrument used in conducting or directing something.
Webster Dictionary
Wandnoun
a small stick; a rod; a verge
Wandnoun
a staff of authority
Wandnoun
a rod used by conjurers, diviners, magicians, etc
Etymology: [Of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. vndr, akin to Dan. vaand, Goth. wandus; perhaps originally, a pliant twig, and akin to E. wind to turn.]
Wikidata
WAND
WAND, virtual channel 17, is an American, NBC-affiliated television station serving the Decatur–Springfield–Champaign area. It is owned by Block Communications. It broadcasts on digital UHF channel 17 from a transmitter near Argenta, with two translators, W31BX-D, in Danville and W40CF-D in Jacksonville, Illinois.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Wand
wond, n. a long slender rod: a rod of authority, or of conjurers.—adj. Wand′y, long and flexible. [Ice. vöndr, a shoot of a tree; Dan. vaand.]
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
WAND
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Wand is ranked #28049 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Wand surname appeared 854 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Wand.
84.1% or 719 total occurrences were White.
6.9% or 59 total occurrences were Black.
3.2% or 28 total occurrences were Asian.
3% or 26 total occurrences were of two or more races.
1.9% or 17 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
0.5% or 5 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
Anagrams for WAND »
dawn
Dawn
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of WAND in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of WAND in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of WAND in a Sentence
I wish I had a magic wand. I wish I could take away all of our pain and struggle, i know that this violation of United States spiritual home was traumatic for each and every one of us. And not just United States. In the road ahead, this is going to be a process.
We want members of Congress to be able to do their jobs without constantly being hauled into court, but it defies logic and probably the Constitution for Congress to think it can wave a wand and call it everything it touches quote ‘informal legislative factfinding.’.
There is no magic wand to get rid of haters. There is no secret spell to win them over to your side.
With a pardon there’s no magic wand that that gets waved and makes everything right.
If being wealthy is taken to mean having the means to satisfy one's every want, all but the very poor can become rich as thou at a single stroke of a magician's wand, simply by ceasing to want more than is really necessary for sustaining life. By being content with little and not giving a rap for what the neighbours think, one can attain a very large measure of freedom, shedding care and worry in a trice.
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