FACSIMILE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does facsimile mean? 

• FACSIMILE (noun)
  The noun FACSIMILE has 2 senses:

1. an exact copy or reproduction

2. duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio

  Familiarity information: FACSIMILE used as a noun is rare.

• FACSIMILE (verb)
  The verb FACSIMILE has 1 sense:

1. send something via a facsimile machine

  Familiarity information: FACSIMILE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FACSIMILE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An exact copy or reproduction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

autotype; facsimile

Hypernyms ("facsimile" is a kind of...):

copy (a thing made to be similar or identical to another thing)

Derivation:

facsimile (send something via a facsimile machine)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

facsimile; facsimile machine; fax

Hypernyms ("facsimile" is a kind of...):

copier; duplicator (apparatus that makes copies of typed, written or drawn material)

Derivation:

facsimile (send something via a facsimile machine)

• FACSIMILE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Send something via a facsimile machine

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

facsimile; fax; telefax

Context example:

Can you fax me the report right away?

Hypernyms (to "facsimile" is one way to...):

telecommunicate (communicate over long distances, as via the telephone or e-mail)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Derivation:

facsimile (duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio)

facsimile (an exact copy or reproduction)

 Context examples 

Fax is short for facsimile, a telecommunications technology used to transfer copies of documents using devices operating over the telephone network.

(Fax, NCI Thesaurus)

Holmes took up the scrap of paper, a facsimile of which is here reproduced. scrap of paper

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a wax-coloured model of my friend, so admirably done that it was a perfect facsimile.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)