Fax vs Telephone - What's the difference?
fax | telephone |
The hair of the head.
A fax machine or a document received and printed by one.
To send a document via a fax machine.
An electronic device used for two-way talking with other people (often shortened to phone).
(US) Chinese whispers.
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To contact someone by dialing his or her telephone number; to make someone's telephone ring using one's own telephone.
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As nouns the difference between fax and telephone
is that fax is fax (machine) while telephone is .fax
English
(wikipedia fax)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en-noun)Derived terms
* (l) * (l) * (l)Etymology 2
From (facsimile), first attested 1979.Noun
(faxes)Verb
(es)telephone
English
(wikipedia telephone)Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=And since the spring of 1995, no game of telephone has ended without some Simpsons-loving smart-ass dropping “purple monkey dishwasher” into the chain. }}
Synonyms
* blower, phone, farspeaker, Ameche (slang), dog and bone (slang), horn (informal) * See alsoDerived terms
* mobile telephone * public telephone * telephone book * telephone box * telephone call * telephone conference * telephone tag * telephonic * telephonyVerb
(telephon)citation, passage=“I came down like a wolf on the fold, didn’t I??? Why didn’t I telephone ??? Strategy, my dear boy, strategy. This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. …”}}