tape vs wand

tape

noun
  • A strong flexible band rotating on pulleys for directing the sheets in a printing machine. 

  • Finishing tape, stretched across a track to mark the end of a race. 

  • Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll. 

  • The series of prices at which a financial instrument trades. 

  • Any video or audio recording, regardless of the method used to produce it. 

  • An unthinking, patterned response triggered by a particular stimulus. 

  • Magnetic or optical recording media in a roll; videotape or audio tape. 

  • Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape. 

  • The wrapping of the primary puck-handling surface of a hockey stick 

verb
  • To record, originally onto magnetic tape. 

  • To bind with adhesive tape. 

  • To understand, figure out. 

wand

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

  • 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. 

  • 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). 

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

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