fax
nounnounverbnouninterjectioncommon in dialogue
- //fæks//
The face.
noun
- 1
obsoleteThe hair of the head.
- 2
The face.
The fillok hyr deformyt fax wald haue a fair face.
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”).
noun
- 1
A document sent, or received and printed, by a fax machine.
- 2
Variant of fax machineEllipsis of fax machine (“the device for faxing; the medium of communication that it provides”).
OK, now take it down the hall to the fax.
You can send it via email or fax. You can use an online fax service where you upload a PDF and then send it to a fax number.
The details of his [Matthew Perrry's] relationship with Julia Roberts are so 1990s, it is unreal: he wooed her by fax (yes, kids, this was a thing).
Etymology
Clipping of facsimile. The use of the noun first appears c. 1946. The verb first appears c. 1979.
verb
- 1
To send a document by means of a fax machine.
Hands trembling with excitement and impatience, I faxxed my credit history to Jerry Raskin, the real estate agent listed, and received an appointment to view the place.
SENATOR BAUCUS, IT IS THE THIRD STATEMENT, YOUR CHALLENGE, THAT HAS LED TO THE MOST FRUSTRATION FOR THE PEOPLE I AM REPRESENTING TODAY. WE TOOK YOU AT YOUR WORD AND HAVE RALLIED AND CONVOYED TO MAKE YOU AWARE OF US, TELEPHONED, WRITTEN LETTERS, FAXXED YOU, AND SPOKE WITH YOU PERSONALLY TO LET YOU KNOW HOW WE FEEL.
Thanks to Franz Amador and Tony Barrett for helpful discussions. We gratefully acknowledge Oren Etzioni’s emergency faxxing service. This research was funded in part by National Science Foundation Grant IRI-8957302, Office of Naval Research Grant 90-J-1904, and a grant from the Xerox corporation.
His logistic: to dress in the skin of the worker, / the technician, the programmer, / infiltrating himself in their milieu, / their offices, their plants, & their boards, / a bug in their systems, / crossing up the controls and the panels, / the wiring, the wave lengths, / the faxxing of messages, the spy-satellites / & their receptors, / changing their conceptions, their charts.
noun
- 1
Variant of factsinformalNonstandard form of facts.
Etymology
Formed with -x from facts; the pronunciation of facts and fax is identical in certain varieties of English.
interjection
- 1
Variant of factsinformalAlternative form of facts (“used to express agreement”).
Forms
- plural
- faxes, faxxes
- past tense
- faxed, faxxed
- past participle
- faxed, faxxed
- present participle
- faxing, faxxing
- third person singular
- faxes, faxxes