cram vs wand

cram

verb
  • To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination. 

  • To fill with food to satiety; to stuff. 

  • To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to fill to superfluity. 

  • To study hard; to swot. 

  • To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff oneself. 

noun
  • A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed. 

  • Information hastily memorized. 

  • A small friendship book with limited space for people to enter their information. 

  • The act of cramming (forcing or stuffing something). 

  • A mathematical board game in which players take turns placing dominoes horizontally or vertically until no more can be placed, the loser being the player who cannot continue. 

wand

verb
  • To scan (e.g. a passenger at an airport) with a metal detector. 

noun
  • A hand-held narrow rod, usually used for pointing or instructing, or as a traditional emblem of authority. 

  • A stick, branch, or stalk, especially of willow. 

  • An instrument shaped like a wand, such as a curling wand. 

  • A card of a particular suit of the minor arcana in tarot, the wands. 

  • A stick or rod used by a magician (a magic wand), conjurer or diviner (divining rod). 

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