different between wafer vs waler

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman wafre, waufre (Old French gaufre), from a Germanic source. Compare Middle Low German w?fel, Middle Dutch wafel (“honeycomb”), West Flemish wafer. See also waffle.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?we?f?/
• Rhymes: -e?f?(?)

Noun

wafer (plural wafers)

1. A light, thin, flat biscuit/cookie.
2. (Christianity) 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 A soft disk originally made of flour, and later of gelatin or a similar substance, used to seal letters, attach papers etc.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 202:

     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. (electronics) A thin disk of silicon or other semiconductor on which an electronic circuit is produced.

Synonyms

• (religion): host

Derived terms

• waferless
• waferlike
• wafery

Translations

Verb

wafer (third-person singular simple present wafers, present participle wafering, simple past and past participle wafered)

1. (transitive) To seal or fasten with a wafer.
   • 1775, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, 4 March:

     [M]y Father, who knew he was well, wafered the paragraph upon a sheet of paper, and sent to his Lodgings.

   • 1913, Joseph Conrad, Chance, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, p. 81:

     [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 […].

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English wafer.

Noun

wafer m (plural wafers)

1. wafer (electronic component)

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English wafer.

Noun

wafer m (invariable)

1. wafer (biscuit and electronic component)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English wafer.

Noun

wafer m (plural wafers)

1. wafer (type of biscuit)
2. (electronics) wafer (disk on which an electronic circuit is produced)

English

Etymology 1

From (New South) Wale(s) +? -er, the horse having been bred in the then colony of New South Wales in the 19th century.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?we?l?/
• Rhymes: -e?l?(?)

Noun

waler (plural walers)

1. (Australia, India) A breed of light saddle horse from Australia, once favoured as a warhorse.
   • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘Wressley of the Foreign Office’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society 2004, p. 204,

     Without reason, against prudence, and at a moment's notice, he fell in love with a frivolous, golden-haired girl who used to tear about Simla Mall on a high, rough waler, with a blue velvet jockey-cap crammed over her eyes.

   • 1889, Annie Brassey, The Last Voyage, to India and Australia, in the ‘Sunbeam’, 2010, page 46,

     There were Arabs of high degree, thoroughbred English horses, and very good-looking Walers among them, besides some tiny ponies, four of which, when harnessed together, drew a real Cinderella coach of solid silver.

   • 2007, "Waler", entry in Bonnie L. Hendricks, International Encyclopedia of Horse Breeds, page 434,

     Some maintain that the Waler is extinct, its blood living on only in the modern Australian Stock Horse and some of the feral brumbies that roam the outback.

   • 2013, Peter Macinnis, The Big Book of Australian History, page 134,

     By the 1850s, there was a thriving trade in selling the horses to the Indian Army as 'remounts'. Between 1834 and 1937, more than 300,000 Walers were sent to India.

Usage notes

Formerly considered a horse type, rather than a distinct breed.

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?we?l?/
• Rhymes: -e?l?(?)

Noun

waler (plural walers)

1. (structural engineering) A plank of wood, block of concrete, etc., used for support or to maintain required separation between components in order to help maintain the form of a construction under stress.
   • 1998, Richard Lampo, Thomas Nosker, Doug Barno, John Busel, Ali Maher, Piyush Dutta, Robert Odello, Construction Productivity Advancement Research (CPAR) Program: Development and Demonstration of Composite FRP Fender, Loadbearing, and Sheet Piling Systems, US Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Laboratories, USACERL Technical Report 98/123, page 65,

     Another consideration is when walers are placed between the piles (Figure 27) and to what extent the pile could deform before the load of the berthing vessel would be shared by the adjacent walers.

   • 2007, David Easton, The Rammed Earth House, page 121,

     Backing for the plywood is provided by 2” × 12” wooden planks (walers in forming technology) spaced approximately 15 inches apart in the vertical direction and running the full length of the wall section. The form ties are ¾-inch pipe clamps, spaced 6 to 10 feet apart in the horizontal direction. In the typical concrete forms, walers are 2×4's and form ties are spaced at 2-foot intervals. By using 2×12 walers, form ties can be spaced at up to 10-foot intervals.

   • 2009, Howard A. Perko, Helical Piles: A Practical Guide to Design and Installation, page 374,

     An optional cast-in-place concrete waler is shown at each anchor row location. The concrete walers are cast against the earth after installation of the helical anchors and prior to excavation for the next lift. Concrete walers can reduce the required thickness of shotcrete for the remaining facing. The walers also improve punching resistance at the helical tie back locations.

Anagrams

• Arwel