Fax

/fæks/ · noun

Meaning

(obsolete or UK dialectal) The hair of the head..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete or UK dialectal) The hair of the head.
2. (obsolete and derisively) The face.
3. Ellipsis of fax machine (“the device for faxing; the medium of communication that it provides”).
4. A document sent, or received and printed, by a fax machine.
5. To send a document via a fax machine.
6. (informal) Nonstandard form of facts.
7. (informal) Alternative form of facts (“used to express agreement”).

Example Sentences

The fillok hyr deformyt fax wald haue a fair face.

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).

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.

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 Mr. Steinberg sent defendant a faxxed confirmation of this oral arrangement reached at the London trade show.

SENATOR BAUCUS, IT IS THE THIRD STATEMENT, YOUR CHALLENGE, THAT HAS LED TO THE MOST FRUSTRATION FOR THE PEOPLE I AM REPRESENTING TODAY. 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.

A few of the corporations involved have frankly acknowledged the roadblock: their own fear of the POW/MIA movement. Some companies scheduled for a trade mission to Vietnam dropped out after receiving a faxxed message from the National P.O.W. Strike Force summed up by its leader: “We will go out of our way to destroy your company because you want to do business with filthy Communists who are holding American prisoners.”

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Word Forms

• faxes
• faxxes
• faxing
• faxxing
• faxed
• faxxed

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