Definitions for wafer

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wafer wa·fer

Spelling: [wey-fer]

IPA: /ˈweɪ fər/

Wafer is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 55 anagrams from letters in wafer (aefrw).

Definitions for wafer

noun

1. a thin, crisp cake or biscuit, often sweetened and flavored.
2. a thin disk of unleavened bread, used in the Eucharist, as in the Roman Catholic Church.
3. a thin disk of dried paste, gelatin, adhesive paper, or the like, used for sealing letters, attaching papers, etc.
4. Medicine/Medical. a thin sheet of dry paste or the like, used to enclose a powder to be swallowed.
5. any small, thin disk, as a washer or piece of insulation.
6. Electronics. a thin slice of semiconductor used as a base material on which single transistors or integrated-circuit components are formed.

verb (used with object)

1. to seal, close, or attach by means of a wafer or wafers:

Origin of wafer

1350-1400; Middle English wafre Middle Dutch wafer, variant of wafel waffle¹

Examples for wafer

I go in with him, and as we are coming out, I ask him child-like for a wafer.

Neither were to be had, and he was fain to put up with a wafer.

The frog was caught and killed, the wafer got back, and the girl recovered.

A 911 tape released indicated that wafer called police after he shot McBride to report the incident, then hung up.

They give him a slice of bread a little larger than a dollar and as thin as a wafer.

wafer came from a large family and grew up in the Detroit area.

Francis promptly picked up the phone and told her go ahead and take the wafer.

wafer would often ride a bike or taxi to drinking establishments in his neighborhood rather than risk driving, the woman said.

According to a former girlfriend who asked not to be identified, wafer was a heavy drinker during at least part of his life.

It was about as large around as a wafer, but somewhat thicker.