Meaning

4 senses
  1. A light, thin, flat biscuit/cookie.

    Oblate, Waffel

    ва́фляváflja

    a small thin crisp cake or cookie

  2. A thin disk of consecrated unleavened bread used in communion.

    thin disk of unleavened bread used in a religious service (especially in the celebration of the Eucharist)

  3. A soft disk originally made of flour, and later of gelatin or a similar substance, used to seal letters, attach papers etc.

    Siegeloblate

    печа́тьpečátʹ

    a small adhesive disk of paste; used to seal letters

  4. A thin disk of silicon or other semiconductor on which an electronic circuit is produced.

    Wafer, Halbleiterscheibe

    подло́жкаpodlóžka

Examples

7 sentences
  1. It was a wafer-thin majority.

    deDie Mehrheit war denkbar knapp.

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  2. Ice cream cones are made of wafer.

    ruРожки под мороженое делают из вафли.

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  3. The parson gave the communion wafer to the dying person.

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  4. The biscuit was coated with a wafer-thin layer of chocolate.

    deDas Gebäck war mit einer hauchdünnen Schokoladenschicht überzogen.

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  5. The pastry was coated with a wafer-thin layer of chocolate.

    ruВыпечка была покрыта тонким слоем шоколада.

    deDas Gebäck war mit einer hauchdünnen Schokoladenschicht überzogen.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 3
biscuit:
lump of sealing substance:
electronics:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
biscuit:
lump of sealing substance:
electronics:

Origin

From Middle English wafre, from Anglo-Norman wafre, waufre (Old French gaufre), from a Ger

From Middle English wafre, from Anglo-Norman wafre, waufre (Old French gaufre), from a Germanic source. Compare Middle Low German wāfel, Middle Dutch wafel (“honeycomb”), West Flemish wafer. See also waffle.

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