Meaning

3 senses
  1. (uncountable, usually)The face.

  2. (countable, uncountable)A document sent, or received and printed, by a fax machine.

    Fax, fax

    факсfaks, факси́милеfaksímile, телефа́ксtelefáks

    факсfaks

  3. (UK, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable, usually)The hair of the head.

More definitions
  • duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio

Examples

61 sentences
  1. I faxed a map to Tom.

    Я відправив Тому мапу факсом.

    ruЯ послал Тому по факсу карту.

    deIch faxte Tom eine Karte.

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  2. Please send it to me by fax.

    Відправ мені це факсом, будь ласка.

    ruОтправьте мне это по факсу, пожалуйста.

    deBitte faxe es mir.

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  3. Tom is sending a fax.

    Том відправляє факс.

    ruТом отправляет факс.

    deTom versendet ein Fax.

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  4. I received this fax from Tom.

    deIch habe dieses Fax von Tom bekommen.

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  5. I'd like to send a fax.

    ruЯ хотел бы отправить факс.

    deIch möchte ein Fax schicken.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
document transmitted by telephone:
Русский
By meaning 1
document transmitted by telephone:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
document transmitted by telephone:

Origin

From Middle English fax, from Old English feax (“hair, head of hair”), from Proto-West Ger

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. The use of the noun first appears c. 1946. The verb first appears c. 1979.

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Forms

plural: faxes
Singularfax

uncountable

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

12 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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