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[ faks ] / fæks / Telecommunications.SEE SYNONYMS FOR fax ON THESAURUS.COM
verb (used with object)to transmit a facsimile of (printed matter, photographs, or the like) electronically: Fax the information to all our branch offices. Origin of faxBy shortening and respelling WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH faxfacts, FAQs, fax Words nearby faxFawcett, Fawkes, fawn, fawn lily, fawny, fax, Faxa Bay, Fa Xian, fax machine, fax modem, fay Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for faxAccording to a police source, that fax came in at 2:46 p.m.—literally a after before the fatal bullets flew. Alleged Cop Killer Ismaaiyl Brinsley Had a Death Wish|M.L. Nestel|December 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST But this is a regular office with fax machines and telephones and computers. Inside the Smuggling Networks Flooding Europe with Refugees|Barbie Latza Nadeau|December 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST In fact, new technologies—copiers, fax machines, and recently the iPad—were significant sources of inspiration for him. The Many Lives of Artist David Hockney|William O’Connor|November 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST Beginning in 1988, he also dove into making art using a fax machine. The Many Lives of Artist David Hockney|William O’Connor|November 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The letters, telephone calls, and fax messages started pouring into the Lyceum. Rebels Rise Again Over Flag Banning|Robert Khayat|July 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST It is to be connected, it would seem, etymologically with fax, 'a torch'. The Oxford Book of Latin Verse|Various May we not say in mythology as in literature, Fax mentis incendium gloria? An Introduction to Mythology|Lewis Spence The difficulty, then, is how fax we are ourselves the objects of our senses. A Treatise of Human Nature|David Hume Fax mentis incendium glori—The flame of glory is the torch of the mind. Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources|James Wood Fax is the general expression for any sort of torch; tda is a natural pine torch; funale, an artificial wax-torch. Dderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes|Ludwig Dderlein
British Dictionary definitions for fax
nounAlso: fax machine short for facsimile machine short for facsimile transmission a message or document sent by fax verb(tr) to send (a message, document, etc) by fax Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to faxtransmission, copy, transmit, relay, duplicate, reproduction, deliver, send |