different between facsimile vs reprint

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /fæk?s?m.?.li/

Noun

facsimile (plural facsimiles or facsimilia)

1. (countable) A copy or reproduction.
   • 1964, Arthur Danto, “The Artworld” in Twentieth Century Theories of Art (1990), ed. James Matheson Thompson, § VIII, 540:

     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?

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:facsimile.
2. (uncountable) Reproduction in the exact form as the original.
3. A fax, a machine for making and sending copies of printed material and images via radio or telephone network.
4. The image sent by the machine itself.

Synonyms

• (copy): autotype, copy, reproduction
• (machine): facsimile machine, fax, fax machine
• (copy made by a facsimile): facsimile reproduction, fax

Translations

Verb

facsimile (third-person singular simple present facsimiles, present participle facsimileing or facsimiling, simple past and past participle facsimiled or facsimilied)

1. (transitive) To send via a facsimile machine; to fax.
2. (transitive) To make a copy of; to reproduce.

Synonyms

• fax, telefax

Translations

English

Etymology

re- +? print (verb)

Pronunciation

• (noun) enPR: r??pr?nt, IPA^(key): /??i?p??nt/
• (verb) enPR: r?-pr?nt?, IPA^(key): /?i??p??nt/
• Hyphenation: re?print

Noun

reprint (plural reprints)

1. A book, pamphlet or other printed matter that has been published once before but is now being released again.

Translations

Verb

reprint (third-person singular simple present reprints, present participle reprinting, simple past and past participle reprinted)

1. (transitive) To print (something) that has been published in print before.

2. (transitive) To renew the impression of.

   • The whole business of our redemption is […] to reprint God's image upon the soul.

Translations

Anagrams

• printer