fax
/fæks/
fax noun: the hair of the head. Also the ellipsis of fax machine.
Noun (1)
fax (usually uncountable, plural faxes)
Noun (2)
fax (countable and uncountable, plural faxes or (rare) faxxes)
- A document sent, or received and printed, by a fax machine.
Verb
fax (third-person singular simple present faxes or (rare) faxxes, present participle faxing or (rare) faxxing, simple past and past participle faxed or (rare) faxxed)
- 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.1990, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, volume 14, page 82
- Plaintiff contented that in a game show in London, England, in January of 1988, Mr. Steinberg entered into an oral agreement with Atari representatives to become the exclusive distributor of Atari Games’ products; that the proposed agreement was dictated at this meeting; and that within two days...1991, Jury Verdicts Weekly, volume 35, page 10
Also used as
fax is also the ellipsis of fax machine.
fax is also the nonstandard form of facts.
fax is also the alternative form of facts.
fax meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
fax in Hindi
- document transmitted by telephone
- फ़ैक्स faiks, फैक्स phaiks
fax in Tamil
- தொலைநகல்
fax in Marathi
- फॅक्स, फॅक्स करा
fax in Urdu
- document transmitted by telephone
- فَیکْس faiks
More languagesFewer languages
- fax in Bengali
- ফ্যাক্স phêkśo
- fax in Telugu
- ఫ్యాక్స్, ఫ్యాక్స్ చేయండి
- fax in Malayalam
- ഫാക്സ്, ഫാക്സ് ചെയ്യുക
- fax in Kannada
- ಫ್ಯಾಕ್ಸ್, ಫ್ಯಾಕ್ಸ್ ಮಾಡಿ
- fax in Punjabi
- ਫੈਕਸ, ਫੈਕਸ ਕਰੋ
- fax in Gujarati
- ફેક્સ, ફેક્સ કરો
- fax in Odia
- ଫ୍ଯ଼ାକ୍ସ, ଫ୍ଯ଼ାକ୍ସ କରନ୍ତୁ
- fax in Nepali
- फ्याक्स, फ्याक्स गर्नुहोस्
- fax in Arabic
- فَاكْس fāks, أَرْسَلَ فَاكْس ʔarsala faks
- fax in Malay
- faks
- fax in Indonesian
- faks
- fax in Persian
- فاکْس fâks, دورْنِگار durnegâr, دورنگاریدن dôrnegâridan, فکس کردن faks kardan
- fax in Thai
- แฟกซ์ fɛ̀k, แฟ็กซ์ fɛ̀k, โทรสาร too-rá-sǎan
- fax in Vietnamese
- fax, điện thư
- fax in Myanmar
- ပုံတူညီသော pumtu-nyisau:, ဖက်စ် hpakc
Examples of fax in a sentence
- Steinberg sent defendant a faxxed confirmation of this oral arrangement reached at the London trade show.1991, Jury Verdicts Weekly, volume 35, page 10:
- 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.1992, Montana National Forest Management Act of 1991: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Public Lands, National Parks and Forests of the...
- Some companies scheduled for a trade mission to Vietnam dropped out after receiving a faxxed message from the National P.O.W.1993, H. Bruce Franklin, M.I.A., or, Mythmaking in America, revised and expanded paperback edition, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers...
- We gratefully acknowledge Oren Etzioni’s emergency faxxing service.1993, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, Proceedings of the Eleventh National Conference on Artificial...
Synonyms of fax
Forms of fax
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | faxes |
| plural (rare) | faxxes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | faxes |
| present participle | faxing |
| past participle | faxed |
| past | faxed |
| third-person singular present (rare) | faxxes |
| present participle (rare) | faxxing |
| past participle (rare) | faxxed |
| past (rare) | faxxed |
Origin of 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”).
Clipping of facsimile. The use of the noun first appears c. 1946. The verb first appears c. 1979.
Formed with -x from facts; the pronunciation of facts and fax is identical in certain varieties of English.
Words formed from fax
Phrases with fax
Words that rhyme with fax
Questions about fax
- What does fax mean?
- Fax means the hair of the head.
- What is fax in Hindi?
- Fax in Hindi is फ़ैक्स (faiks), फैक्स (phaiks). See Fax meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use fax in a sentence?
- Steinberg sent defendant a faxxed confirmation of this oral arrangement reached at the London trade show.
- What part of speech is fax?
- Fax can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce fax?
- Fax is pronounced /fæks/.
- What is the plural of fax?
- The plural of fax is faxes.
Words near fax in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fax (page history and authors); fax (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fax (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fax (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fax (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fax (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fax (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fax (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fax (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); fax (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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