📄 An exact copy 📠 A fax machine 📠 To fax

to facsimile

7.0

To send a document by fax

verb
/fækˈsɪmɪli/

Archaic

: faxear

Please facsimile the signed contract to my office.

Examples

They asked if we could facsimile all the necessary forms instead of mailing them.
She facsimiled the documents yesterday.
He facsimiled the blueprints to the construction team immediately.
Please facsimile the signed agreement to our office before 5 p.m.
Please facsimile the signed agreement to our office before 5 p.m.
He facsimiled the blueprints to the construction team immediately.
They asked if we could facsimile all the necessary forms instead of mailing them.

Synonyms

to fax

vsto facsimile

148 2.8

To send a document over a phone line so it prints at the other end

is broader meaning electronic transmission and not only via telephone line

to telefax

vsto facsimile

Archaic

1 7.7

To send a document or picture by a fax machine

is the general term for electronic transmission rather than stressing wire use

Antonyms

to receive

∞ 1.0

To get something that someone gives you

Compounds

facsimile machine

Archaic

1 4.9

A machine that copies a document and sends it by phone

Surface Forms

facsimile infinitive

facsimiled past

facsimiled past participle

facsimiling present participle

facsimiles third person singular

Etymology

Facsimile as a verb means to send a document by fax, and this use comes from the Latin phrase fac simile ('make similar'), because when you facsimile something you are sending a copy that is like the original.