fax

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fax [fax faxes faxed faxing] noun, verb BrE [fæks] NAmE [fæks]
noun (also formal fac·sim·ile)
1. (also ˈfax machine)countable a machine that sends and receives documents in an electronic form along telephone wires and then prints them
•Do you have a fax?
2. uncountable a system for sending documents using a fax machine
•Can you send it to me by fax?
•What is your fax number?
3. countable a letter or message sent by fax
•Did you get my fax?
•You can send faxes by email from your computer.

Word Origin:
1940s: abbreviation of ↑facsimile.

Collocations:
Phones
Making and receiving phone calls
the phone/telephone rings
answer/pick up/hang up the phone/telephone
lift/pick up/hold/replace the receiver
dial a (phone/extension/wrong) number/an area code
call sb/talk (to sb)/speak (to sb) on the phone/telephone; from home/work/the office
make/get/receive a phone call
take the phone off the hook (= remove the receiver so that the phone does not ring)
the line is (BrE) engaged/ (especially NAmE) busy
the phones have been (NAmE) ringing off the hook (= ringing frequently)
put sb through/get through to the person you want to speak to
put sb on hold (= so that they must wait for the person they want to speak to)
call from/use a landline
Mobile/cell phones
be/talk on a (both BrE) mobile phone/mobile/(especially NAmE) cell phone/(informal, especially NAmE) cell
use/answer/call (sb on)/get a message on your mobile phone/mobile/cell phone/cell
switch/turn on/off your mobile phone/mobile/cell phone/cell
charge/recharge your mobile phone/mobile/cell phone/cell
a mobile/cell phone is on/is off/rings/goes off
(BrE) top up your mobile (phone)
send/receive a text (message)/an SMS (message)/a fax
insert/remove/change a SIM card

Example Bank:
•There was still time to receive copies by fax.
•Can you send it to me by fax?
•a fax machine

 
verb
to send sb a document, message, etc. by ↑fax
•~ sb sth Could you fax me the latest version?
•~ sth to sb Could you fax it to me?
•~ sth I faxed the list of hotels through to them.
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
1940s: abbreviation of ↑facsimile.

Example Bank:
•Can you fax me the latest version?

 
See also: ↑facsimile