English Explanatory Dictionary

fax

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The hair of the head.
  2. The face.
noun
  1. Ellipsis of fax machine (“the device for faxing; the medium of communication that it provides”).
  2. A document sent, or received and printed, by a fax machine.
verb
  1. To send a document via a fax machine.
noun
  1. Nonstandard form of facts.
intj
  1. Alternative form of facts (“used to express agreement”).

Pronunciation

făks /fæks/ en-us-fax.ogg

Word forms

fax faxes faxxes faxing faxxing faxed faxxed

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”).

Synonyms

trufax fax, no printer tru dat true dat true that

Related words

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Derived words

faxed Fairfax Halifax black fax cryptofax e-fax faxback fax bomb fax democracy faxlore fax modem fax number faxable refax
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