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fax

fax

56 2.3
A document sent over a phone line and printed at the other end
  • noun
  • /fæks/
translation icon : fax
  • We sent Don a fax and asked him to have the tests done.
  • send a fax
  • mail or fax
  • telephone or fax

So they, they sent Russell Barone a fax like requesting like the list of munitions.

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Examples

  • He printed the report from the fax that arrived this morning.

  • It just came in on the fax.

  • Have you ever sent someone a fax from the beach?

  • We got a fax on our phone.

  • Do you have a fax number?

  • A fax came through on the secure channel.

  • I got this fax from Williams, Russel, and Johnson.

  • I'm calling about a fax concerning the escape of Richard Fenton.

  • A few days later, I received from him a page-and-a-half fax in which he'd derived their main conclusions.

    Academic text (2005)
  • "Why wasn't I given this information?" He waved the fax in the diplomat's face.

    Fiction book (1999)

Synonyms

mail
vsfax
  • Texting
203 1.0

Messages sent or received over the internet

uses telephone lines to send a document that is printed on arrival
teletype
vsfax
  • Archaic
1 7.6

A typed message sent and printed over long distances

goes over telephone lines and creates a paper copy at the receiver
e-mail
vsfax
  • Texting
1.0

A message sent over the internet to another person

is sent over telephone lines and prints the document at the receiver

How Fast

to text
  • Texting
296 2.6
email
  • Texting
724 1.0
to cable
  • Archaic
1 6.1
fax
56 2.3
to post
  • UK
127 1.0

Surface Forms

fax singular
faxes plural

Etymology

Fax is short for facsimile, from Latin fac + simile meaning 'make similar'. So a fax is a document that is copied and sent over the phone to be printed at the other end.