fax

名词 n. 动词 v. 感叹词 intj.
中文释义
发音 făks

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The hair of the head. UK,dialectal,obsolete,uncountable,usually
  2. Ellipsis of fax machine (“the device for faxing; the medium of communication that it provides”). abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis
    — OK, now take it down the hall to the fax.
  3. Nonstandard form of facts. alt-of,informal,nonstandard,plural,plural-only
  4. The face. uncountable,usually
    — The fillok hyr deformyt fax wald haue a fair face.
  5. A document sent, or received and printed, by a fax machine.
动词 v.
  1. 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.
感叹词 intj.
  1. Alternative form of facts (“used to express agreement”). alt-of,alternative,informal

词形变化

faxes plural faxes plural faxxes plural,rare faxes present,singular,third-person faxxes present,rare,singular,third-person faxing participle,present faxxing participle,present,rare faxed participle,past faxed past faxxed participle,past,rare faxxed past,rare

词汇关系

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

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
Clipping of facsimile, first attested 1979.
词源 3
Formed with -x from facts; the pronunciation of facts and fax is identical in certain varieties of English.
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