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Word entry · 9 letters

facsimile

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"Exact copy"

9 letters · collected on this word page

9 lettersPronunciation /fækˈsɪm.ə.li/Part of speech verb, nounSorted acefiilmsStarts with FEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. send something via a facsimile machine

Word origin

From Latin fac simile (“make like”), from fac (“make”) (imperative of facere (“make”)) + simile (neuter of similis (“like, similar”)).

Used in a sentence

  • To paraphrase the critic of the Times, if one may make the facsimile of a human being out of bronze, why not the facsimile of a Brillo carton out of plywood?
  • “What is a turtle?” asked I, facsimileing the graceful attitude of Don José, and leaning both my arms full-length on the table, while I stared him undauntedly in the face, as if he had been no more than an ordinary man.
  • The branch at the top [of the figure] is facsimiled from that in the hand of Adam, in Durer’s Adam and Eve.

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