wafer
part of speech
noun (a wafer, wafers)
meaning for a pupil
1) A wafer is a very thin, light, crisp biscuit, often eaten with ice cream or with cream between layers. tree →
2) (church) In many churches, a wafer is a thin, round piece of special bread given at Holy Communion. tree →
3) A wafer is any very thin slice: a wafer of silicon in computer chips. tree →
4) Wafer-thin means extremely thin. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and 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. In the primary 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
- 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 →
- 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…».
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «wafer» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.