wafer

  • 11Wafer — Wa|fer 〈[ wɛıfə(r)] m. 3; El.〉 Halbleiterplatte, auf der elektr. Schaltungen untergebracht sind [engl.] * * * Wa|fer [ weɪfɐ ], der; s, [s] [engl. wafer, eigtl. = Waffel, Oblate] (Elektronik): dünne Scheibe aus Halbleitermaterial, auf die… …

    Universal-Lexikon

  • 12wafer — вафельный wafer sheet вафельный лист wafer cup вафельный стаканчик wafer rolls вафельные трубочки wafer saw scraps вафельные обрезки wafer baker оператор вафельной печи …

    English-Russian travelling dictionary

  • 13wafer — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French wafer, walfre, of Germanic origin; akin to Middle Dutch wafele waffle Date: 14th century 1. a. a thin crisp cake, candy, or cracker b. a round thin piece of unleavened bread used in the… …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 14wafer — waferlike, wafery, adj. /way feuhr/, n. 1. a thin, crisp cake or biscuit, often sweetened and flavored. 2. a thin disk of unleavened bread, used in the Eucharist, as in the Roman Catholic Church. 3. a thin disk of dried paste, gelatin, adhesive… …

    Universalium

  • 15wafer — [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… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 16wafer — [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… …

    Word origins

  • 17Wafer — Recorded in many spellings including Weaver, the patronymic Weavers, Wafer, Weafer, Wever, and possibly others, this is an English surname. It can be either an occupational or a locational surname. As an occupational surname it derives from the… …

    Surnames reference

  • 18wafer — noun Wafer is used before these nouns: ↑biscuit Wafer is used after these nouns: ↑communion …

    Collocations dictionary

  • 19wafer — [[t]we͟ɪfə(r)[/t]] wafers 1) N COUNT A wafer is a thin crisp biscuit which is usually eaten with ice cream. 2) N COUNT A wafer is a circular, thin piece of special bread which the priest gives people to eat in the Christian service of Holy… …

    English dictionary

  • 20wafer — UK [ˈweɪfə(r)] / US [ˈweɪfər] noun [countable] Word forms wafer : singular wafer plural wafers 1) a very thin biscuit 2) a thin round piece of bread that a priest gives people to eat during the Christian religious ceremony of holy communion …

    English dictionary