| Library / English Dictionary |
WAFER
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Thin disk of unleavened bread used in a religious service (especially in the celebration of the Eucharist)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("wafer" is a kind of...):
bread; breadstuff; staff of life (food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A small thin crisp cake or cookie
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("wafer" is a kind of...):
biscuit; cookie; cooky (any of various small flat sweet cakes ('biscuit' is the British term))
Sense 3
Meaning:
A small adhesive disk of paste; used to seal letters
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("wafer" is a kind of...):
library paste; paste (an adhesive made from water and flour or starch; used on paper and paperboard)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb wafer
Context examples:
Upon intracranial administration of the implant wafer and subsequent release of BCNU from the wafer, this agent alkylates and cross-links DNA during all phases of the cell cycle, resulting in the disruption of DNA function, cell cycle arrest, and apoptosis.
(Carmustine Sustained-Release Implant Wafer, NCI Thesaurus)
You only need a very thin film of this perovskite material – around one thousand times thinner than a human hair – to achieve similar efficiencies to the silicon wafers currently used, opening up the possibility of incorporating them into windows or flexible, ultra-lightweight smartphone screens.
(‘Messy’ production of perovskite material increases solar cell efficiency, University of Cambridge)
A wafer of a moon was shining over Gatsby's house, making the night fine as before and surviving the laughter and the sound of his still glowing garden.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
