waes
/weɪz/
noun
- A thin, light, crisp cookie or cracker, often eaten with ice cream or used in desserts.
- The children crunched on vanilla wafers after lunch.
- She topped the sundae with a chocolate wafer.
- He stacked the wafers neatly on the serving plate.
- A thin, flat piece of something, especially a semiconductor material used in electronics.
- The engineer inspected the wafer under a microscope for defects.
- Each wafer is carefully polished before being cut into circuits.
- The factory produces silicon wafers for computer chips.
- A thin disc of unleavened bread used in the Christian Eucharist or Communion.
- During the service, the congregation received the consecrated wafer.
- The priest placed the wafer on the communicant's tongue.
- The wafer symbolizes the body of Christ in many Christian traditions.