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fax

UK/fæks/ US/ˈfæks/ fairly common informal uk
noun (1) verb (1)

noun

1.

duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio

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verb

1.

send something via a facsimile machine

  • “Can you fax me the report right away?”
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Origin

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”).

Phrases

  • black fax
  • fax bomb
  • fax democracy
  • fax modem
  • fax number

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