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wand

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: Magic, Tools
wand1 /wɒnd $ wɑːnd/ noun [countable]  1 magician.jpg ROMa thin stick that you hold in your hand to do magic tricks 〔表演魔术用的〕魔棒wave a (magic) wand (=move a wand about to make something magical happen) 挥动魔棒 I can’t just wave a magic wand and make it all better. 我可没本事一挥魔棒就把什么都变好。2 TZa tool that looks like a thin stick 细棒状工具 a mascara wand 睫毛膏棒
Examples from the Corpus
wandElmer squirts Magic all over with a hose and scrapes the water off with a curved wand.She looks up from her work, needle half filled in front of her face like a little wand.Equally, nobody to whom I have spoken thinks that decommissioning is a magic wand.Don't wait for life to wave its magic wand and make you joyful.And we accept that there is no magic wand which can be waved to provide a million jobs overnight.The magic wand of his personality became the national ramrod.Each card or wand contains an identification number that is read by an electronic sensor, which charges credit-card accounts.And the long, jewelled box containing the rod, without roses or leaves, that was the wand of his kingship.wave a (magic) wandBut London's pattern of hospitals is such a historical muddle that no one can wave a wand and transform everything overnight.I ask, if you could wave a magic wand, what would your life look like?Anyway, I imagined him waving a wand, and the world came into existence.If that is true, he is waving a magic wand with a sledgehammer on the end.
wand2 verb [transitive]  to move a small scanner over something or someone 〔用扫描器〕扫描 We were wanded by security guards before being allowed in. 我们被保安人员用扫描器进行扫描安检后才被允许进入。Origin wand (1100-1200) Old Norse vöndr
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wand
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wand1 /wɒnd $ wɑːnd/ noun [countable]
 Date: 1100-1200
 Language: Old Norse
 Origin: vöndr

1. a thin stick that you hold in your hand to do magic tricks
    wave a (magic) wand (=move a wand about to make something magical happen)
    I can’t just wave a magic wand and make it all better.
2. a tool that looks like a thin stick:
    a mascara wand

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wand2 verb [transitive]
to move a small scanner over something or someone:
    We were wanded by security guards before being allowed in.


wandBrE /wɒnd/ 🔊NAmE /wɑːnd/ 🔊 noun (also ˌmagic ˈwand) a straight thin stick that is held by sb when performing magic or magic tricks 魔杖The fairy waved her wand and the table disappeared. 那仙女魔杖一挥,桌子不翼而飞。🔊🔊You can't expect me to just wave a (magic) wand and make everything all right again.你不能指望我挥动一下魔杖,便一切又平安无事了。
any object in the shape of a straight thin stick 棍;棒;杆;杖a mascara wand睫毛刷