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A wafer is a very thin, light, crisp or cracker. You'll see wafers used between layers of ice cream, in some candy bars, or as a thin cracker to go with cheese. In church, a "communion wafer" is a small, thin piece of bread used in a religious ceremony. In electronics, a "silicon wafer" is a thin slice of material used to make computer chips — a more technical use.
威化餅、薄脆餅乾;(電子)晶圓
組成No clean split; from Old North French "wafre."
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
wafernoun/ˈweɪ̯fəː/
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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.
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ChristianityA thin disk of consecrated unleavened bread used in communion.
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A soft disk originally made of flour, and later of gelatin or a similar substance, used to seal letters, attach papers etc.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.
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businesselectrical-engineeringelectricityA thin disk of silicon or other semiconductor on which an electronic circuit is produced.
waferverb/ˈweɪ̯fəː/
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To seal or fasten with a wafer.
- [M]y Father, who knew he was well, wafered the paragraph upon a sheet of paper, and sent to his Lodgings.
- [T]he beginning of de Barral's end became manifest to the public in the shape of a half-sheet of note-paper wafered by the four corners on the closed door […].
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。