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Meaning of Fax | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1 Standard
fæks

Definitions

  1. The hair of the head.
  2. Ellipsis of fax machine (“the device for faxing; the medium of communication that it provides”).
  3. Nonstandard form of facts.
    alt-of, informal, nonstandard, plural, plural-only
  4. The face.
  5. A document sent, or received and printed, by a fax machine.

Equivalents

Examples

“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).”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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