Foil vs Wafer - What's the difference?
foil | wafer | Synonyms |
A light, thin, flat biscuit.
(religion) A thin disk of consecrated unleavened bread used in communion.
A soft disk originally made of flour, and later of gelatin or a similar substance, used to seal letters, attach papers etc.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:
(electronics) A thin disk of silicon or other semiconductor on which an electronic circuit is produced.
Foil is a synonym of wafer.
As nouns the difference between foil and wafer
is that foil is a very thin sheet of metal or foil can be failure when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage or foil can be (hunting) the track of an animal while wafer is wafer.As a verb foil
is to prevent (something) from being accomplished or foil can be (mathematics) to multiply two binomials together or foil can be (obsolete) to defile; to soil.wafer
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
