wafer

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈweɪ̯fəː/|[ˈweɪ̯fəː]    美 /wæɪ̯fəː/|[ˈwæ̝ɪ̯fəː] ~ [ˈwæ̝ɪ̯fɐ̝ː]|/ˈweɪ̯fɚ/|[ˈweɪ̯fɚ] ~ [ˈweɪ̯fɹ̩]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A light, thin, flat biscuit/cookie.
    — I was at the Mathematical School, where the Maſter taught his Pupils after a Method ſcarce imaginable to us in Europe. The Propoſition and Demonſtration were fairly written on a thin Wafer, with Ink compoſed of a Cephalick Tincture. This the Student was to ſwallow upon a faſting Stomach, and for three days following eat nothing but Bread and Water. As the Wafer digeſted, the Tincture mounted to his Brain, bearing the Propoſition along with it.
  2. A thin disk of consecrated unleavened bread used in communion.
  3. A soft disk originally made of flour, and later of gelatin or a similar substance, used to seal letters, attach papers etc.
    — The house supplied him with a wafer for his present purpose, with which, having sealed his letter, he returned hastily towards the brook side, in order to search for the things which he had there lost.
  4. A thin disk of silicon or other semiconductor on which an electronic circuit is produced.
动词 v.
  1. To seal or fasten with a wafer. transitive
    — [M]y Father, who knew he was well, wafered the paragraph upon a sheet of paper, and sent to his Lodgings.

词形变化

wafers plural wafers present,singular,third-person wafering participle,present wafered participle,past wafered past

词汇关系

衍生词
Anzac wafer communion wafer Neapolitan wafer silicon wafer thin as a wafer vanilla wafer wafer ash waferboard wafer bread wafer iron waferish waferless waferlike wafer prober waferscale wafer-scale integration wafer-thin wafer trapdoor spider wafery

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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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