wafer

barquillo, oblea

Galleta muy fina, ligera y crujiente, que suele comerse con crema, chocolate o helado.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Expresiones frecuentes: chocolate wafer, vanilla wafer, wafer biscuit

hostia

Pequeña pieza de pan fino y plano que se usa en la ceremonia cristiana de la comunión.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Sinónimos: host

Expresiones frecuentes: communion wafer, consecrated wafer, receive a wafer

oblea, oblea de silicio

Disco fino y plano de un material sobre el que se fabrican circuitos electrónicos diminutos.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Expresiones frecuentes: silicon wafer, semiconductor wafer, wafer production

oblea de sellar

Disco pequeño, blando y adhesivo que se usa para cerrar cartas o unir papeles.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Expresiones frecuentes: sealing wafer, red wafer, wafer seal

sellar con oblea

Cerrar una carta o unir papeles mediante un pequeño disco adhesivo.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Sinónimos: seal, fasten

Expresiones frecuentes: wafer a letter, wafer the envelope, wafer papers together