Wand vs Baton - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between wand and baton

is that wand is a stick or staff while baton is a staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as, the baton of a field marshal.

is that wand is to scan (e.g. a passenger at an airport) with a metal detector while baton is to strike with a baton.

(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.

* magic wand * violet wand * water wand

(en verb)

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

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(wikipedia baton)

(en noun)

A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as, the baton of a field marshal

(music) The stick of a conductor in musical performances.

(sports) An object transferred by runners in a relay race.

(lb) A short stout club used primarily by policemen; a truncheon (UK).

(heraldiccharge) An abatement in coats of arms to denote illegitimacy. (Also spelled batune, baston).

(heraldiccharge) A riband with the ends cut off, resembling a baton, as shown on a coat of arms.

* batonic

(en verb)

To strike with a baton.

* * The Observer's Book of Heraldry , by Charles Mackinnon of Dunakin, p. 58.

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