Faxed vs Fared - What's the difference?
faxed | fared |
(obsolete) Having a head of hair; hairy.
* 1859 , The London review: Volume 11:
(fax)
(fare)
(label) a going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage
Money paid for a transport ticket.
A paying passenger, especially in a taxi.
Food and drink.
* , chapter=16
, title= Supplies for consumption or pleasure.
(UK, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.
(archaic) To go, travel.
To get along, succeed (well or badly); to be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circumstances or train of events.
* Denham
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, title= To eat, dine.
* Bible, Luke xvi. 19
(impersonal) To happen well, or ill.
* Milton
As verbs the difference between faxed and fared
is that faxed is past tense of fax while fared is past tense of fare.As an adjective faxed
is having a head of hair; hairy.faxed
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) *. More at (l).Alternative forms
* (l)Adjective
(en adjective)- A comet is a ‘faxed ’ star, that is, a hairy, a tailed star.
Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
From .Verb
(head)fared
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*fare
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) fare, from the merger of (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”}}
References
*Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
- So fares the stag among the enraged hounds.
Ian Sample
Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains, passage=Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.}}
- There was a certain rich man which fared sumptuously every day.
- We shall see how it will fare with him.
- So fares it when with truth falsehood contends.