As nouns the difference between tarot and wand
is that tarot is (singular or plural) a card game played in various different variations while wand is a stick or staff.
As a verb wand is
to scan (eg a passenger at an airport) with a metal detector.
tarot
Noun
(
en noun)
(singular or plural) A card game played in various different variations.
Any of the set of 78 playing cards (divided into five suits, including one of permanent trumps), often used for mystical divination.
Quotations
* 1987, Hans Hahn, “Logic, Mathematics, and Knowledge,” in Unified Science, Brian McGuiness ed.
*: [...] it is not that I cannot convince him, but that I must refuse to go on talking with him, just as I shall refuse to go on playing tarot with a partner who insists on taking my fool with the moon.
* 1996, Jan Potocki, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0140445803&id=lRbXDsA9u4AC&pg=PA333&lpg=PA333&sig=s0cNY_83AgaK_TWOEA1qpv95tuQ]
*: They took me to her and then we all came back to the portal, where we started playing tarot .
*: As we were engrossed in this game, which requires quite a lot of attention, a well-dressed man appeared and seemed to examine us all closely, first one then another.
* 2001, Donald Davidson, Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0199246297&id=hGm9Dj5OmF8C&pg=PA265&lpg=PA265&sig=rjtFvOxVBgk1cro3fLQ5bLn9Eqw]
*: In explaining what it is to play tarot we could not leave out of account the rules that define the game; [...]
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wand
English
Noun
(
en noun)
A stick or staff.
(by extension) An instrument shaped like a stick or staff such as a curling wand .
a magic wand.
A branch or stalk, especially of willow.
A suit of the minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.
Derived terms
* magic wand
* violet wand
* water wand
Verb
(
en verb)
To scan (e.g. a passenger at an airport) with a metal detector.
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