核心畫面
Picture a page sliding into a machine, travelling down a phone line as an electronic signal, and then printing out as a copy on a machine far away. 'fax' is that whole idea of sending a paper document over the phone wire — and the word stretches to name the copy that comes out, the machine that does it, the system behind it, and the act of sending.
可以想成一張紙塞進機器，沿著電話線變成訊號跑出去，然後在遠方另一台機器上印出一份一模一樣的副本。fax 可以想成就是…更多收起
可以想成一張紙塞進機器，沿著電話線變成訊號跑出去，然後在遠方另一台機器上印出一份一模一樣的副本。fax 可以想成就是「把一份紙本文件透過電話線送出去」這整件事；同一個字一路延伸，既指印出來的那份東西、做這件事的那台機器、背後那套系統，也指「傳真」這個動作。原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
faxnoun詞源 1/fæks/
- 1
obsoletedialectalThe hair of the head.
- 2
The face.
- The fillok hyr deformyt fax wald haue a fair face.
faxnoun詞源 2/fæks/
- 1
A document sent, or received and printed, by a fax machine.
faxverb詞源 2/fæks/
- 1
To send a document by means of a fax machine.
- Hands trembling with excitement and impatience, I faxxed my credit history to Jerry Raskin, the real estate agent listed, and received an appointment to view the place.
- Plaintiff contented that in a game show in London, England, in January of 1988, Mr. Steinberg entered into an oral agreement with Atari representatives to become the exclusive distributor of Atari Games’ products; that the proposed agreement was dictated at this meeting; and that within two days Mr. Steinberg sent defendant a faxxed confirmation of this oral arrangement reached at the London trade show.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。