wafer

A very thin, light, crisp biscuit, often eaten with cream, chocolate, or ice cream.

• Would you like a wafer?
• She put two wafers beside the ice cream.
• The chocolate wafer broke into small pieces.

Common phrases: chocolate wafer, vanilla wafer, wafer biscuit

A small, thin piece of flat bread used in the Christian ceremony of communion.

• The priest held up a wafer.
• They received wafers during communion.
• The consecrated wafer was placed on her tongue.

Similar words: host

Common phrases: communion wafer, consecrated wafer, receive a wafer

A thin, flat disc of material on which tiny electronic circuits are made.

• The chip is made on a wafer.
• Workers inspected each silicon wafer for damage.
• The factory produces thousands of wafers every month.

Common phrases: silicon wafer, semiconductor wafer, wafer production

A small, soft, sticky disc used to close letters or attach papers.

• She sealed the letter with a wafer.
• He moistened a red wafer before closing the envelope.
• Old wafers still held the papers together.

Common phrases: sealing wafer, red wafer, wafer seal

To close a letter or attach papers using a small, sticky disc.

• She wafered the letter shut.
• He wafered the folded papers together.
• The clerk wafered each envelope before sending it.

Similar words: seal, fasten

Common phrases: wafer a letter, wafer the envelope, wafer papers together