Faxed vs Faked - What's the difference?
faxed | faked |
(obsolete) Having a head of hair; hairy.
* 1859 , The London review: Volume 11:
(fax)
(fake)
Not real; false, fraudulent.
Something which is not genuine, or is presented fraudulently.
A trick; a swindle.
(soccer) Move meant to deceive an opposing player, used for gaining advantage when dribbling an opponent.
To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob.
To make; to construct; to do. (rfexample)
To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is; as, to fake a bulldog, by burning his upper lip and thus artificially shortening it.
To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify.
To make a false display of, to affect, to feign, to simulate.
(nautical) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
(nautical) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form, to prevent twisting when running out.
As verbs the difference between faxed and faked
is that faxed is (fax) while faked is (fake).As an adjective faxed
is (obsolete) 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)faked
English
Verb
(head)fake
English
Etymology 1
(wikipedia fake) The origin is not known with certainty, although first attested in 1775Adjective
(en-adj)- Which fur coat looks fake ?