Faxed

Part of speech: verb

Pronunciation: /fækst/

Definitions

1. Sent a document or image through a telephone line using a fax machine
2. Transferred printed or written material electronically to another fax device
3. Dispatched a paper copy via a facsimile transmission system

Etymology: The past-tense form of the modern verb has no connection to hair, though the older form it shares a spelling with does. Old English "feax" meant "hair", and "ġefeaxed" described something as having hair, the sense that passed into Middle English as "faxed". The modern verb comes from "fax", a clipping of "facsimile", from Latin "fac simile", "make alike". Its past tense is "faxed", so the two unrelated senses simply share a spelling.

Synonyms: sent, transmitted