Fax
intj, noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 The hair of the head. UK, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable, usually
- 2 Ellipsis of fax machine (“the device for faxing; the medium of communication that it provides”). abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
"OK, now take it down the hall to the fax."
- 3 Nonstandard form of facts. alt-of, informal, nonstandard, plural, plural-only
- 4 duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio wordnet
- 5 The face. uncountable, usually
"The fillok hyr deformyt fax wald haue a fair face."
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- 6 A document sent, or received and printed, by a fax machine.
- 1 To send a document via a fax machine.
"Hands trembling with excitement and impatience, I faxxed my credit history to Jerry Raskin, the real estate agent listed, and received an appointment to view the place."
- 2 send something via a facsimile machine wordnet
- 1 Alternative form of facts (“used to express agreement”). alt-of, alternative, informal
Example
More examples"Here is our answer to your fax message dated April 1st."
Etymology
From Middle English fax, from Old English feax (“hair, head of hair”), from Proto-West Germanic *fahs, from Proto-Germanic *fahsą (“hair, mane”), from Proto-Indo-European *poḱsom (“hair”, literally “that which is combed, shorn, or plucked”), from Proto-Indo-European *peḱ- (“to comb, shear, pluck”). Cognate with Dutch vas (“headhair”), German Fachs (“head-hair”), Norwegian faks (“mane”), Icelandic fax (“mane”), Sanskrit पक्ष्मन् (pákṣman, “eyelash, hair, filament”).
Clipping of facsimile, first attested 1979.
Formed with -x from facts; the pronunciation of facts and fax is identical in certain varieties of English.
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