fax

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   send something via a facsimile machine

   Can you fax me the report right away?

2. 2
   noun

   The face.

   The fillok hyr deformyt fax wald haue a fair face.

3. 3
   noun

   Ellipsis of fax machine (“the device for faxing; the medium of communication that it provides”).

   OK, now take it down the hall to the fax.

4. 4
   verb

   To send a document via 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.

5. 5
   noun

   duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio

6. 6
   noun

   The hair of the head.

7. 7
   noun

   A document sent, or received and printed, by a fax machine.

8. 8
   noun

   Nonstandard form of facts.

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”).