Wafer

Etymology
From, (🇨🇬), from a Germanic source. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. See also.

Noun

 * 1) A light, thin, flat biscuit/cookie.
 * 2)  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 * 3) A soft disk originally made of flour, and later of gelatin or a similar substance, used to seal letters, attach papers etc.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) * 1749,, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 202:
 * The house supplied him with a wafer for his present purpose, with which, having sealed his letter, he returned hastily towards the brook side, in order to search for the things which he had there lost.
 * 1)  A thin disk of silicon or other semiconductor on which an electronic circuit is produced.

Translations

 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 威化餅, 威化饼
 * Mandarin: 威化餅, 威化饼
 * Czech:
 * Danish: vaffel,, vafferør,
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 * Estonian: vahvel
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 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:, cialda,
 * Japanese: ウエハース
 * Maori: keke angiangi
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 * Arabic:
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 * Dalmatian: bluta
 * Danish: oblat
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 * Irish:
 * Old Irish: oblae
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 * French:
 * Portuguese: obreia


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 * Finnish: piikiekko
 * French:
 * German:, Halbleiterscheibe
 * Greek: δισκίο πυριτίου
 * Hungarian: lapka


 * Italian:, dischetto
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Verb

 * 1)  To seal or fasten with a wafer.
 * 2) *1775,, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, 4 March:
 * [M]y Father, who knew he was well, wafered the paragraph upon a sheet of paper, and sent to his Lodgings.
 * 1) *1913,, Chance, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, p. 81:
 * [T]he beginning of de Barral's end became manifest to the public in the shape of a half-sheet of note-paper wafered by the four corners on the closed door […].

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) wafer (electronic component)

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) wafer (biscuit and electronic component)

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  type of biscuit
 * 2)   disk on which an electronic circuit is produced