wafer

noun (a wafer, wafers)

«wafer» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

Everyday

A wafer is a very thin, light, crisp biscuit, often eaten with ice cream or with cream between layers. tree →
(church) In many churches, a wafer is a thin, round piece of special bread given at Holy Communion. tree →
A wafer is any very thin slice: a wafer of silicon in computer chips. tree →
Wafer-thin means extremely thin. tree →

In the lessons

In everyday life, wafers come with ice cream (a «99» with a wafer in the UK, ice cream wafers) or as chocolate wafer bars. In church lessons, the communion wafer (also called the host in Catholic churches) is bread that Christians believe recalls or becomes the body of Jesus, depending on their church. In science and technology, chips are made on silicon wafers. Phrases: «wafer-thin», «ice cream wafer», «communion wafer».

Examples

I had a strawberry ice cream with two wafers. tree →
The chocolate wafer bar snapped in half. tree →
(church) At Mass, the priest gave each person a small round wafer. tree →
The ham was sliced wafer-thin. tree →
Computer chips are made on thin silicon wafers. tree →
Gran keeps pink wafers in the biscuit tin. tree →

Note

Countable: a wafer, wafers. Say «WAY-fer». Do not confuse with «waver» (to be unsteady or unsure) — they sound similar. Different churches believe different things about the communion wafer; say «Catholics believe…», «many Protestants believe…».

In Jewish tradition

A thin flat unleavened cake, spread with oil, that was offered with sacrifices and at the ordination of priests.

Interpretation. Wafers were part of the offering that the priests brought in the Tabernacle. Being unleavened, they were thought to show humility and purity.

Examples

and unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened mingled with oil, and wafers unleavened spread with oil; of fine wheaten flour shalt thou make them. (Torah EXO.29.2, JPS 1917) tree →
and a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers spread with oil, and their meal-offering, and their drink-offerings. (Torah NUM.6.15, JPS 1917) tree →
and one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before the LORD. (Torah EXO.29.23, JPS 1917) tree →
for the showbread also, and for the fine flour for a meal-offering, whether of unleavened wafers, or of that which is baked on the griddle, or of that which is soaked, and for all manner of measure and size; (Writings 1CH.23.29, JPS 1917) tree →

Note

On Mova

Trees and pragmatics of «wafer» in the school dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
«wafer» in the school dictionary on Mova free.
Trees and pragmatics of «wafer» in the Judaism dictionary: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
«wafer» in the Judaism dictionary on Mova free.

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