fax

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A document sent or received using a fax machine.

   I just received a fax with the signed contract.

2. 2
   verb

   To send a document using a fax machine.

   Can you fax me the report right away?

3. 3
   noun

   A machine that sends and prints documents over a phone line.

   Take this document down the hall to the fax.

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”).

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