facsimile

Speech parts

1. facsimile - Noun

2. facsimile - Verb

Meaning

A copy of anything made, either so as to be deceptive or so as to give every part and detail of the original; an exact copy or likeness.

To make a facsimile of.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

autotype fax telefax copy reproduction facsimile machine fax machine xerox ditto model image machine Kalka match double
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Antonyms

sir godhead new original ruler contrast
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Hypernyms

copy copier duplicator telecommunicate

Phrases with the word

make a facsimile of in facsimile crater facsimile

Derivatives

facsimiles

Examples

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it. Robert Rauschenberg

History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information. Robert Smithson

We have a hunger for something like authenticity, but are easily satisfied by an ersatz facsimile. George Orwell

I tend to relate more to people on television who are just themselves, for good or for bad, than I do to someone who I believe is putting on some sort of persona. The anchorman on 'The Simpsons' is a reasonable facsimile of some anchors who have that problem. Anderson Cooper

I felt my whole life was a facsimile of a life. Tama Janowitz

The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that; it's a halfway facsimile. Ted Allen

Close letter words and terms

facound FACP FACS facsimile machine facsimilist facsimilize