WAFER


Meaning of WAFER in English

n. & v.

--n.

1. a very thin light crisp sweet biscuit, esp. of a kind eaten with ice-cream.

2 a thin disc of unleavened bread used in the Eucharist.

3 a disc of red paper stuck on a legal document instead of a seal.

4 Electronics a very thin slice of a semiconductor crystal used as the substrate for solid-state circuitry.

5 hist. a small disc of dried paste formerly used for fastening letters, holding papers together, etc.

--v.tr. fasten or seal with a wafer.

Phrases and idioms:

wafer-thin very thin.

Derivatives:

wafery adj.

Etymology: ME f. AF wafre, ONF waufre, OF gaufre (cf. GOFFER) f. MLG wafel waffle: cf. WAFFLE(2)

Oxford English vocab.      Оксфордский английский словарь.