wafer
pronunciation
How to pronounce wafer in British English:
UK [ˈweɪfə(r)]
How to pronounce wafer in American English:
US [ˈwefɚ]
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- Noun:
- a small adhesive disk of paste; used to seal letters
- a small thin crisp cake or cookie
- thin disk of unleavened bread used in a religious service (especially in the celebration of the Eucharist)
Word Origin
- wafer
- wafer: [14] Wafer and waffle [18] are essentially the same word. Both come ultimately from a Low German term whose underlying etymological meaning was of a ‘honeycomb’- patterned cake or biscuit – a sense wafer has since lost. The ancestral form was wāfel, which seems to have come from the prehistoric Germanic base *wab-, *web- (source of English weave) and is probably related to German wabe ‘honeycomb’.Old French borrowed Middle Low German wāfel as gaufre (which is where English got goffer ‘crimp’ [18] from). The Anglo-Norman version of this was wafre – whence English wafer. Waffle was borrowed direct into American English from Dutch wafel. (The verb waffle ‘speak verbosely’ [19], incidentally, is not the same word. It is a derivative of an earlier waff [17], used for the sounds a dog makes, which like woof was of imitative origin.)=> goffer, waffle, weave, web
- wafer (n.)
- 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.
Example
- 1. Different catalysts coat each side of the wafer .
- 2. There you have it . Billy graham kneeling and worshiping the mass wafer
- 3. A disruption in silicon wafer production can then stall makers of memory chips and , ultimately , consumer products .
- 4. When the heat from the foot is applied on the top side of the ceramic wafer and cold is applied on the opposite side , from the cold of the ground , electricity is generated .
- 5. The new device is a silicon wafer about the shape and size of a playing card .