What does wafer mean?

Definitions for wafer
ˈweɪ fərwafer

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. wafernoun

    a small adhesive disk of paste; used to seal letters

  2. wafernoun

    a small thin crisp cake or cookie

  3. wafernoun

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

GCIDE

  1. Wafernoun

    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.

Wiktionary

  1. wafernoun

    A light, thin, flat biscuit.

  2. wafernoun

    A thin disk of consecrated unleavened bread used in communion.

  3. wafernoun

    A soft disk originally made of flour, and later of gelatin or a similar substance, used to seal letters, attach papers etc.

  4. wafernoun

    A thin disk of silicon or other semiconductor on which an electronic circuit is produced.

  5. Etymology: From wafre, waufre (= Old French gaufre), from wafel. Compare waffle.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Wafernoun

    Etymology: wasel, Dutch.

    Wife, make us a dinner; spare flesh, neither corn;
    Make wafers and cakes, for our sheepe must be shorne. Thomas Tusser.

    Poor Sancho they persuaded that he enjoyed a great dominion, and then gave him nothing to subsist upon but wafers and marmalade. Alexander Pope.

    That the same body of Christ should be in a thousand places at once; that the whole body should lie hid in a little thin wafer; yet so, that the members thereof should not one run into another, but continue distinct, and have an order agreeable to a man’s body, it doth exceed reason. Joseph Hall.

Wikipedia

  1. Wafer

    A wafer is a crisp, often sweet, very thin, flat, light and it is not a dry biscuit, often used to decorate ice cream, and also used as a garnish on some sweet dishes. Wafers can also be made into cookies with cream flavoring sandwiched between them (e.g., Oreo). They frequently have a waffle surface pattern but may also be patterned with insignia of the food's manufacturer or may be patternless. Some chocolate bars, such as Kit Kat and Coffee Crisp, are wafers with chocolate in and around them.

ChatGPT

  1. wafer

    A wafer is a thin, crisp, often sweet, flat, and round or square piece of food, often used in desserts, snacks, or in the electronics industry to refer to thin slice of semiconductor material, such as crystalline silicon, used for the fabrication of integrated circuits.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Wafernoun

    a thin cake made of flour and other ingredients

  2. Wafernoun

    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. Wafernoun

    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. Waferverb

    to seal or close with a wafer

  5. Etymology: [OE. wafre, OF. waufre, qaufre, F. qaufre; of Teutonic origin; cf. LG. & D. wafel, G. waffel, Dan. vaffel, Sw. vffla; 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.]

Wikidata

  1. 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.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Wafer

    wā′fėr, n. a thin round cake of unleavened bread, usually stamped with a cross, an Agnus Dei, the letters I.H.S., &c., used in the Eucharist in the R.C. Church: a thin leaf of coloured paste for sealing letters, &c.: a thin cake of paste used to facilitate the swallowing of powders.—v.t. to close with a wafer.—n. Wā′fer-cake.—adj. Wā′fery, like a wafer. [O. Fr. waufre (Fr. gaufre)—Old Dut. waefel, a cake of wax; Ger. wabe, a honeycomb.]

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. WAFER

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Wafer is ranked #19266 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Wafer surname appeared 1,407 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Wafer.

    62.1% or 875 total occurrences were Black.
    31.6% or 445 total occurrences were White.
    2.8% or 40 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    2.5% or 36 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    0.4% or 6 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    0.3% or 5 total occurrences were Asian.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of wafer in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of wafer in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of wafer in a Sentence

  1. Craig Reedie:

    At a time when trust in sport is wafer thin, these troubling assertions will do little to reinforce confidence in the Russian anti-doping system when clean athletes need it most, the next important step is to install two international experts in Russia to ensure that the anti-doping system is free of undue interference and is fully independent.

  2. Charles de LEUSSE:

    The king who has the broad bean does not have one whole wafer. (Le roi qui a la fève - N'a la galette entière.)

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