fax

Meanings

Plural: faxes, faxxes

Noun

duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio
The hair of the head.
Ellipsis of fax machine (“the device for faxing; the medium of communication that it provides”).
A document sent, or received and printed, by a fax machine.
Nonstandard form of facts.

Verb

send something via a facsimile machine
- "Can you fax me the report right away?"
To send a document via a fax machine.

Intj

Alternative form of facts (“used to express agreement”).

Origin / 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”).

Synonyms

facsimile, facsimile machine, fax, no printer, telefax, tru dat, true dat, true that, trufax

Scrabble Score: 13

fax is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
fax is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
fax is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 13

fax is a valid Words With Friends word