Толковый словарь английского языка - wafer
Wafer
wafer
I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French ~, walfre, of Germanic origin; akin to Middle Dutch wafele waffle Date: 14th century 1. a thin crisp cake, candy, or cracker, a round thin piece of unleavened bread used in the celebration of the Eucharist, an adhesive disk of dried paste with added coloring matter used as a seal, 3. a thin disk or ring resembling a ~ and variously used (as for a valve or diaphragm), a thin slice of semiconductor (as silicon) used as a base for an electronic component or circuit, II. transitive verb (~ed; ~ing) Date: 1748 to seal, close, or fasten with a ~, to divide (as a silicon rod) into ~s
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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) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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