fax
The faceThe face.
Meaning
3 senses(uncountable, usually)The face.
(countable, uncountable)A document sent, or received and printed, by a fax machine.
Fax, fax
факсfaks, факси́милеfaksímile, телефа́ксtelefáks
факсfaks
(UK, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable, usually)The hair of the head.
- duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio
Examples
61 sentencesI faxed a map to Tom.
Я відправив Тому мапу факсом. — deniko
ruЯ послал Тому по факсу карту. — saiko
deIch faxte Tom eine Karte. — Yorwba
Please send it to me by fax.
Відправ мені це факсом, будь ласка. — deniko
ruОтправьте мне это по факсу, пожалуйста. — sharptoothed
deBitte faxe es mir. — Manfredo
Tom is sending a fax.
Том відправляє факс. — deniko
ruТом отправляет факс. — Lenin_1917
deTom versendet ein Fax. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
I received this fax from Tom.
deIch habe dieses Fax von Tom bekommen. — Vortarulo
I'd like to send a fax.
ruЯ хотел бы отправить факс. — marafon
deIch möchte ein Fax schicken. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English fax, from Old English feax (“hair, head of hair”), from Proto-West GerFrom 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: faxesSynonyms
2 synonyms- duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio:facsimilefacsimile machine
Word family
12 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
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