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▪ I. † fax, n.1 Obs.
Forms: α. 1 feax, north. fæx, 1–2 fex, 3–6 fax, (5 faxe, 6 facts, 7 faix, ? 6 pl. fassis). β. 3 væx, vax(e.
[OE. feax = OFris. fax, OS. and OHG. fahs (MHG. vahs), ON. (and mod.Norw.) fax. The word occurs in the proper names Fairfax, Halifax.]
1. The hair of the head.
Beowulf 2967 Swat ædrum sprong forð under fexe. c900Bæda's Hist. ii. xvi, He..hæfde blæc feax. c1000Sax. Leechd. I. 110 Wiþ þæt ðæt mannes fex fealle. c1205Lay. 24843 [Heo] luken heom bi uaxe [c 1275 þan heere] and laiden heom to grunde. a1300Cursor M. 7244 (Cott.) Thoru his fax his force was tint. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints, Martha 7 Scho was far of fax and face. c1440Bone Flor. 1545 Then they lowsyd hur feyre faxe, That was yelowe as the waxe. 1513Douglas æneis ii. vi. 51 His fax and berd was fadit quhar he stuide. 1548Hall Chron. 10 b, Y⊇ fassis of their head set ful of new devised facuns. 1560Rolland Crt. Venus i. 915 With countinance and facts virginall. 1606Holland Sueton. Annot. 30 a, Whose lokes and faix were so slicke and glib with sweet oyles, that they shone againe. [1610― Camden's Brit. i. 723 Fax in the old English tongue signifieth the haire of the head.]
2. derisively. The face.[Perhaps a misunderstanding of the obsolete word as preserved in poetic phrases; some other Sc. examples in 16th c. would admit of a similar interpretation.] 1513Douglas æneis viii. Prol. 32 The fillok hir deformit fax wald haue a fair face.
▪ II. fax, n.2 colloq.|fæks|
[Respelling after colloquial pronunc. of facts, pl. of fact n. 4; cf. Filofax n.]
Facts.
1837Thackeray in Fraser's Mag. XVI. 644 (title) The Yellowplush correspondence. Fashnable fax and polite annygoats. 1945(title of aviation news-sheet) Plane fax. 1977Sounds 1 Jan. 20/1 Balanced fax about sniffin' are hard to come by—even Release, the London-based advice/aid centre is short on information. 1987Evening Standard 6 Mar. 25 (heading) Food fax.
▪ III. fax, n.2 Comm.|fæks|
[Abbrev. of facsimile n.]
Facsimile, facsimile telegraphy. Also, a facsimile copy obtained in this way. Freq. attrib.
1948Time 12 Jan. 62/3 The big news about ‘fax’ was that, technically, the bugs were pretty well worked out of it. 1957Editor & Publisher 13 Apr. 57/1 (heading) Contrast cut from fax pix. 1969Pop. Electronics Feb. 33/1 The facsimile process (or ‘fax’ as it is called in the trade) has had its ups and downs. 1971D. M. Costigan Fax p. vii, Probably the most impressive thing about facsimile (fax, for short)..is its enormous potential. 1972Sci. Amer. Sept. 140/3 Futurists predict that a ‘fax’ terminal in the home or business office may someday supplement or even replace the mail carrier. 1976New Scientist 30 Sept. 683/1 If the letter is put—by hand—on to a facsimile (‘fax’) machine for transmitting, this is acceptable, too. But it is equally possible for the computer to generate the fax signals electronically. 1980J. McNeil Spy Game xvii. 179, I want a fax of the passport photo wired from Washington. 1984Times 21 Feb. 25/1 STC Business Systems has launched a new fax machine equipped with automatic transmissions and stacking systems... It is claimed that it can transmit an A4 page across the world in 15 seconds. 1984Daily Tel. 28 Nov. 8 (Advt.), NEFAX is UK and European brand leader in fax.
Hence as v. trans., to transmit (a document, etc.) in facsimile by scanning it and transmitting the resulting signal by wire or radio for use in reproducing the document at the receiving end.
1979Datamation Aug. 75/3 (heading) Who will fax the mail? 1983Library Assoc. Rec. Nov. 406/1 The BLLD had installed a couple of machines and was prepared to fax requests to any library which had the necessary hardware to receive it, and was prepared to pay. 1984Sunday Times 11 Mar. 69/1 Stories edited by journalists are sent by facsimile transmission—‘faxed’—across Europe to the printing works. 1986Bookseller 3 Oct. 1422/2 Titles not in stock are gathered by the central computer and listed by publisher in ISBN sequence before being faxed, telexed or skypacked to the individual publishers.
(Formerly fax n.2) Add: b. A fax machine.
1983Forbes (N.Y.) 29 Aug. 132/1 Most machines are now manufactured in Japan, even though they have American labels. This has turned the major American fax manufacturers into vendors. 1986Personal Computing Dec. 162/2 Digital faxes are quite common in businesses, primarily because they use the same protocols and can communicate with each other regardless of manufacturer. 1987Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 16 Aug. 8/2 He keeps permanently in touch with his Los Angeles office by portable fax and telex. 1989Lit. Rev. Aug. 58/1 His Elizabethan forebears had nothing coming between them and their audience but the London air—no Fax or answer machine.
[f. fax n.3] Add: So faxed ppl. a., sent by facsimile telegraphy; ˈfaxer n., a person who faxes; ˈfaxing vbl. n., the action of the vb.
1946New Republic 9 Sept. 294/1 Although pictures reproduce quite well over home receivers, ‘faxed’ print looks somewhat quavery. 1982Financial Times 7 Apr. iii. p. vii/1 Faxing systems are a rapidly growing part of business communications and British Telecom is determined to make them easier, simpler and cheaper. 1985Program XIX. 275 The original photocopy was found to be preferable to the poorer-quality faxed copy. 1988Newsweek 25 July 54/1 Evans is one happy faxer. |