fax

noun

/fæks/

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”).

derived from *peḱ-✻
inherited from *poḱsom✻ — “hair”
inherited from *fahsą✻ — “hair, mane”
inherited from *fahs✻
inherited from feax
inherited from fax

Definitions

The hair of the head.
2
The face.
- The fillok hyr deformyt fax wald haue a fair face.
3
Ellipsis of fax machine (“the device for faxing
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.
- You can send it via email or fax. You can use an online fax service where you upload a PDF and then send it to a fax number.
- The details of his [Matthew Perrry's] relationship with Julia Roberts are so 1990s, it is unreal: he wooed her by fax (yes, kids, this was a thing).
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1. A document sent, or received and printed, by a fax machine.
2. 5
  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.
3. Nonstandard form of facts.
4. Alternative form of facts (“used to express agreement”).

The neighborhood

Derived

faxed, Fairfax, Halifax, black fax, cryptofax, e-fax, faxback, fax bomb, fax democracy, faxlore, fax modem, fax number

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fax. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA