wand1 nounwand2 verb
wandwand1 /wɒnd $ wɑːnd/ noun [countable] 
WORD ORIGINwand
Origin:
1100-1200 Old Norse vöndrEXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- And the long, jewelled box containing the rod, without roses or leaves, that was the wand of his kingship.
- And we accept that there is no magic wand which can be waved to provide a million jobs overnight.
- Don't wait for life to wave its magic wand and make you joyful.
- Each card or wand contains an identification number that is read by an electronic sensor, which charges credit-card accounts.
- Elmer squirts Magic all over with a hose and scrapes the water off with a curved wand.
- Equally, nobody to whom I have spoken thinks that decommissioning is a magic wand.
- She looks up from her work, needle half filled in front of her face like a little wand.
- The magic wand of his personality became the national ramrod.
WORD SETS
abracadabra, interjectionbewitch, verbblack art, nounblack magic, nounclairvoyant, nounconjure, verbconjurer, nounconjuring, nouncrystal ball, nouncurse, verbcurse, nounenchant, verbenchanted, adjectiveenchanter, nounenchantment, nounenchantress, nounhex, nounincantation, nounmalediction, nounmandrake, nounnecromancy, nounpentagram, nounpotion, nounrune, nounsorcerer, nounsorceress, nounsorcery, nounvoodoo, nounwand, nounwarlock, nounwhite magic, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
I wish I could just wave a magic wand and make everything all right.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
(=move a wand about to make something magical happen) I can’t just wave a magic wand and make it all better.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES I can’t just wave a magic wand and make it all better. I wish I could just wave a magic wand and make everything all right.· And we accept that there is no magic wand which can be waved to provide a million jobs overnight.· But in real life, there is no magic wand which turns us into the parents we long to become.· Equally, nobody to whom I have spoken thinks that decommissioning is a magic wand.· The magic wand of his personality became the national ramrod.· Don't wait for life to wave its magic wand and make you joyful.· There are no magic wands or instant solutions.· If that is true, he is waving a magic wand with a sledgehammer on the end.· And now the magic wand of scent had lightly touched, and passed.
VERB· Don't wait for life to wave its magic wand and make you joyful.· I ask, if you could wave a magic wand, what would your life look like?· If that is true, he is waving a magic wand with a sledgehammer on the end.· In time, one hopes and trusts that Gilmore will wave his magic wand and refurbish the theater to its former glory.· We wave our own magic wands.· The government has waved the magic wand of legislation over longstanding curriculum problems: overload, differentiation, progression, examination domination.· But London's pattern of hospitals is such a historical muddle that no one can wave a wand and transform everything overnight.· Anyway, I imagined him waving a wand, and the world came into existence.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1- I ask, if you could wave a magic wand, what would your life look like?
- If that is true, he is waving a magic wand with a sledgehammer on the end.
a thin stick that you hold in your hand to do magic trickswave 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.2a tool that looks like a thin stick: a mascara wandwand1 nounwand2 verb
wandwand2 verb [transitive] COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES I wish I could just wave a magic wand and make everything all right.
I wish I could just wave a magic wand and make everything all right.PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
to move a small scanner over something or someone: - I ask, if you could wave a magic wand, what would your life look like?
- If that is true, he is waving a magic wand with a sledgehammer on the end.
We were wanded by security guards before being allowed in.