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| wa·fer [ wáyfər ] |
noun (plural wa·fers) |
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1. thin crisp cookie: a thin, crisp, and sometimes sweetened cookie, usually in a rectangular, fan, or cone shape, often eaten with ice cream
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2. disk of adhesive material: a small thin disk of adhesive material, used to seal a letter or formal document
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3. christianity bread disk in Christian Communion service: a very thin disk of unleavened bread used to represent the body of Jesus Christ in the Christian Communion
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4. electronics
Same as chipn (sense 4)
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transitive verb (past and past participle wa·fered, present participle wa·fer·ing, 3rd person present singular wa·fers) |
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fasten something with wafer: to fasten something such as a letter or formal document with a wafer
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| [14th century. Via Anglo-Norman wafre, variant of French gaufre< Middle Low German wāfel< Germanic] |
