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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wafer
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
paper/wafer thin (=very thin)
▪ Keep your voice down – the walls are paper thin.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Human contact is limited to loading the wafers on to racks and moving the racks between machines.
▪ Mr Gibbs returned with five wafers, one each for everybody except his wife.
▪ The wafer was in his mouth and the sweet wine, but he wanted more.
▪ The brittle wafer dissolving against the roofs of their mouths was their promise of life in a world beyond Holy Hill.
▪ These high-precision quartz plates are used in the manufacturing of semiconductor computer wafers.
▪ They are made from wafer biscuits and cost £10.80 for a box of 120.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wafer

Wafer \Wa"fer\, n. [OE. wafre, OF. waufre, qaufre, F. qaufre; of Teutonic origin; cf. LG. & D. wafel, G. waffel, Dan. vaffel, Sw. v[*a]ffla; all akin to G. wabe a honeycomb, OHG. waba, being named from the resemblance to a honeycomb. G. wabe is probably akin to E. weave. See Weave, and cf. Waffle, Gauffer.]

  1. (Cookery) A thin cake made of flour and other ingredients.

    Wafers piping hot out of the gleed.
    --Chaucer.

    The curious work in pastry, the fine cakes, wafers, and marchpanes.
    --Holland.

    A woman's oaths are wafers -- break with making
    --B. Jonson.

  2. (Eccl.) A thin cake or piece of bread (commonly unleavened, circular, and stamped with a crucifix or with the sacred monogram) used in the Eucharist, as in the Roman Catholic Church.

  3. An adhesive disk of dried paste, made of flour, gelatin, isinglass, or the like, and coloring matter, -- used in sealing letters and other documents.

  4. Any thin but rigid plate of solid material, esp. of discoidal shape; -- a term used commonly to refer to the thin slices of silicon used as starting material for the manufacture of integrated circuits.

    Wafer cake, a sweet, thin cake.
    --Shak.

    Wafer irons, or Wafer tongs (Cookery), a pincher-shaped contrivance, having flat plates, or blades, between which wafers are baked.

    Wafer woman, a woman who sold wafer cakes; also, one employed in amorous intrigues.
    --Beau. & Fl.

Wafer

Wafer \Wa"fer\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wafered; p. pr. & vb. n. Wafering.] To seal or close with a wafer.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
wafer

late 14c., "thin cake of paste, generally disk-shaped," from Anglo-French wafre, Old North French waufre "honeycomb, wafer" (Old French gaufre "wafer, waffle"), probably from Frankish *wafel or another Germanic source (compare Flemish wafer, altered from Middle Dutch wafel "honeycomb;" see waffle (n.)). Eucharistic bread first so called 1550s.

Wiktionary
wafer

n. 1 A light, thin, flat biscuit/cookie. 2 (context religion English) A thin disk of consecrated unleavened bread used in communion. 3 A soft disk originally made of flour, and later of gelatin or a similar substance, used to seal letters, attach papers etc. 4 (context electronics English) A thin disk of silicon or other semiconductor on which an electronic circuit is produced. vb. (context transitive English) To seal or close with a wafer.

WordNet
wafer
  1. n. a small adhesive disk of paste; used to seal letters

  2. a small thin crisp cake or cookie

  3. thin disk of unleavened bread used in a religious service (especially in the celebration of the Eucharist)

Wikipedia
Wafer

In gastronomy, a wafer is a crisp, often sweet, very thin, flat, and dry biscuit, often used to decorate ice cream. Wafers can also be made into cookies with cream flavoring sandwiched between them. They frequently have a waffle surface pattern but may also be patterned with insignia of the food's manufacturer or may be patternless. Many chocolate bars, such as Kit Kat and Coffee Crisp, have wafers in them.

Wafer (surname)

Wafer (Weafer, Weaver) is an English surname, and may refer to

  • Jeremy Wafer (born 1952), South African Artist
  • Ken Weafer (1913–2005), American baseball player and second cousin of Jeremy Wafer
  • Von Wafer (born 1985), American Basketball player

Usage examples of "wafer".

With a pile of diet wafers and a snack bar balanced on a saucer in one hand, a pot of caff in the other, and a notebook under his arm, Procyon navigated the door of his basement home office, elbowed the switch, and let the robot turn the lights on.

He gulped the first glass as his dehydrated tissues sucked up the moisture, then sipped a second cup, while he unwrapped a package of dry protein wafers and wolfed them down.

These wafers are miniature factories that measure dielectrophoresis, the minute electrical charges generated by all living creatures.

In rifling the closet of the ladie, they found a wafer of sacramental bread, having the divels name stamped thereon in steed of JESUS Christ, and a pipe of ointment, wherewith she greased a staffe, upon whish she ambled and gallopped through thicke and thin when and in what manner she listed.

She searched the belt for the storage grommet that held the memory wafer.

She unscrewed the storage grommet, peeled off the button-sized memory wafer, and held it between thumb and forefinger.

She carefully replaced the wafer in the grommet and screwed it into the belt.

Taking from his box a piece of the Sacred Wafer he laid it reverently on the earth, and then shutting down the lid began to screw it home, we aiding him as he worked.

Lionel Wafer, tiring of the life of a civil surgeon at Port Royal, left Jamaica to go on a voyage with Captains Linch and Cook to the Spanish Main.

Eucrasia was doing prelim on a string of optioned wetsets when she burned on the Mudlark wafer and popped her base.

A box of Nilla Wafers is demolished, down to the crumbs at the bottom of the wax liner, which are shaken out and inhaled.

It was empty except for a few arrays of optronic wafers in a partly filled rack maybe three inches high.

Wafer was spared by the Indians owing to his skill as a phlebotomist, after he had been allowed to exhibit his skill to an Indian chief called Lacentra, when he bled one of his wives so successfully that the chief made Wafer his inseparable companion, to the no little discomfort of the buccaneer, who wished to reach the Atlantic and rejoin his companions who had left him behind.

It flew open, and he selected a bandage shears, with a blunt wafer for the lower jaw.

I had several candies in common: marshmallow eggs, Smarties, Necco Wafers.