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单词 facsimile
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facsimilen.

Brit. /fakˈsɪmᵻli/, /fakˈsɪml̩i/, U.S. /fækˈsɪməli/
Forms: Plural facsimiles.
Etymology: Originally two words, and before this cent. usually written as such, Latin fac, imperative of facere to make + simile, neuter of similis like. The form factum simile , occurring in quot. 1782 at sense 2a, is often stated to be the original; but of this we find no evidence.
1. The making a copy of anything, esp. writing; imitation. Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun]
imitation?1504
mimesisa1586
imitating1591
mocking1611
mockage1615
samplinga1638
exemplification1650
facsimilea1661
mimature1663
mimicry1688
copying1712
mimic1832
patterning1845
simulation1870
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Yorks. 206 A quick Scribe, is but a dull one; who is good only at fac simile, to transcribe out of an original.
2.
a. An exact copy or likeness; an exact counterpart or representation. Also in in facsimile.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > action of repeating in a copy or making a copy > duplicate or exact copy
counterpanec1475
counterparta1676
facsimile1691
duplicate1701
rescript1729
double1798
reduplicate1803
duplication1872
dupe1916
carbon copy1926
spit1929
clone1977
1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions p. lxxxvi A fac simile might easily be taken.
1742 R. North & M. North Life F. North 59 He..made what they call a fac simile of the Marks and Distances of those small Specks.
1782 T. Pownall Let. to Astle in Treat. Study Antiq. 178 Drawings copied per factum simile.]
1795 W. Seward Anecd. (1796) III. 10 The annexed Engraving, a complete fac-simile.
1815 R. Wedgwood in Commercial Mag. (1846) I. 259 Fac-similes of a dispatch, written..in London, may with facility be written also in Plymouth, Dover..by the same person, and by one and the same act.
1824 J. Johnson Typographia II. xii. 434 One of the most..ancient of those manuscripts has been printed in fac-simile.
1851 D. Wilson Archæol. & Prehistoric Ann. Scotl. iv. iv. 540 Part of the inscription..is presented here in in fac-simile.
1866 G. Stephens Old-Northern Runic Monuments I. p. vi Masterly facsimiles.
b. transferred and figurative.
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society > communication > representation > [noun] > a representation
form?c1225
figurea1340
likeness1340
print1340
nebshaftc1350
resemblancea1393
visagea1400
similitude?a1425
representationc1450
simulacre1483
representa1500
semblance1513
idea1531
image1531
similitudeness1547
type1559
living image1565
portrait1567
counter-figure1573
shadow1580
countershape1587
umbrage1604
medal1608
reflex1608
remonstrance1640
transcript1646
configurationa1676
phantom1690
facsimile1801
personation1851
featuring1864
zoomorph1883
1801 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 5 191 This is a fac simile to his declaring..that leave was given.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria II. xvi. 42 Representing before them fac-similies [sic] of their own mean selves.
1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xvi. viii. 371 Mirabeau's Gospel of Free-Trade..some seventy or eighty years the senior of an English (unconscious) Facsimile.

Compounds

attributive.
a. general.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [adjective] > reproducing or repeating in a copy
duplicating1659
repetitious1757
facsimile1767
replicating1769
polygraphic1805
duplicate1812
1767 ‘Coriat Junior’ Another Traveller! I. 415 The first fac simile man in Europe.
1791 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 27/2 A facsimile copy of the curious little miscellany.
1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 142 Much better adapted..for fac simile writings.
1861 A. Beresford-Hope Eng. Cathedral of 19th Cent. 227 Wyatt substituted facsimile plaster for stone groining in Lichfield nave.
1875 F. H. A. Scrivener 6 Lect. Text New Test. 13 Those elaborate fac~simile editions of the chief codices.
b. spec. applied to a radio, telegraphic, or other system that scans written, printed, or photographic material and transmits signals used to produce a likeness of the original; as facsimile telegraph, facsimile transmission, etc.
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society > communication > telecommunication > communication of visual images > [noun]
facsimile1877
telephotography1880
phototelegraphy1886
telephoty1889
picture telegraphy1896
telechirograph1903
telautography1905
radiophotography1915
telephoto1923
wirephoto1923
telefacsimile1940
telefax1941
fax1946
faxing1982
1877 Pract. Mag. VII. 10/1 (heading) The Fac-simile Telegraph... An instrument which transmits by telegraph the weather maps of the Signal Service.
1927 Marconi Short Wave Beam Syst. 19 It [sc. the short wave beam system] can be used for facsimile transmission over any distance.
1935 Sci. Amer. Mar. 122/1 The home radio set will produce a copy of the printed material that was fed into the broadcasting machine, with picture and text reproduced in facsimile... That is what facsimile radio has in store.
1948 New Yorker 28 Feb. 21/3 The facsimile newspaper..travels through the air.
1959 A. G. Cooley in K. Henney Radio Engin. Handbk. (ed. 5) xxiii. 1 In a facsimile system the subject copy for transmission is scanned by a light beam, a line at a time.
1969 Daily Tel. 31 Oct. (Colour Suppl.) 25/1 Distribution..is mastered..with a centralised point in Tokyo, transmitting facsimile pages by microwave to be printed by offset all over the country.

Derivatives

facˈsimilist n. one who makes facsimiles.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > action of repeating in a copy or making a copy > reproducer
reproducer1774
facsimilist1862
replicator1964
1862 Sat. Rev. 14 453/2 Netherclift..is well known as a facsimilist.
1885 Law Times 2 May 11/2 Inglis, an expert in handwriting and facsimilist..said [etc.].
facˈsimilize v. (also facˈsimilise) (transitive) to make a facsimile of, reproduce exactly.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

facsimilev.

Brit. /fakˈsɪmᵻli/, /fakˈsɪml̩i/, U.S. /fækˈsɪməli/
Etymology: < facsimile n.
transitive.
a. To serve as a facsimile of; to resemble exactly. rare.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > render similar to [verb (transitive)] > be like, resemble, or take after
to bear a resemblance toa1225
semblec1330
resemble1340
to look likec1390
representa1398
belikec1475
assemble1483
express1483
to take after ——1553
figure1567
assimilate1578
besib1596
imitate1601
resemblance1603
respect1604
favour1609
image1726
mirror1820
facsimile1839
turn after ——1848
picture1850
1839 Lady Lytton Cheveley (ed. 2) II. v. 163 Two..sofas facsimiled each other at either end of the fireplace.
b. To make a facsimile of; to reproduce.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > imitate [verb (transitive)] > repeat in a copy
counterfeit1362
to take out1530
take1538
reduplicate1570
imitate1590
counter-make1595
ingeminate1625
replicate1661
recopy1684
takea1715
reproduce1838
duplicate1860
facsimile1862
carbon copy1914
1862 Sat. Rev. 14 454/1 The signature..of Louis XIV of France, as here facsimiled.
1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile Pref. 14 Even romances and tales are..photographed, facsimiled in chromo-lithography.
absolute.1882 Pall Mall Gaz. 15 June 5/1 They are the work of the artist who adapts, and not of the photographer who facsimiles.

Derivatives

facˈsimiled adj.
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1887 Athenæum 3 Sept. 313/2 With facsimiled, but uncoloured illustrations.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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