facsimile
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[fak-sim-uh-lee]
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–noun
1. an exact copy, as of a book, painting, or manuscript.
2. Also called fax. Telecommunications.
a. a method or device for transmitting documents, drawings, photographs, or the like, by means of radio or telephone for exact reproduction elsewhere.
b. an image transmitted by such a method.
3. dropout (def. 5).
–verb (used with object)
4. to reproduce in facsimile; make a facsimile of.
–adjective
5. Also, fax. Telecommunications.
a. (of an image) copied by means of facsimile: facsimile mail.
b. (of a method or device) used to produce a facsimile: facsimile transmission.
—Synonyms
1. replica, likeness. 1, 4. duplicate.
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facsimile (n.)
Pronounce it fak-SIM-uh-lee, and avoid if you can the cliché a reasonable facsimile, so overworked these days in merchandising’s coupon offers.
Thanks for showing up, fate. I’m pretty sure a facsimile of this guy was in my screenwriting class. Big chain smoker, wrist model. Just last week, Peter [lashed] [into] the announcement that Juliet Snowden and Stiles White Ed.-poetic name combination were hired to pen the new (and undoubtedly improved) Poltergeist.
Worse, however, is that the videos (inexplicably called "sweded" films) Mike and Jerry make would seem to be totally terrible. Gondry concentrates on the vids' frantic production -- with makeshift costumes and special effects for the likes of "RoboCop," "2001" and "King Kong," hopeless stunts for "Rush Hour 2" and preschool-level docu and animation facsimiles for "When We Were Kings" and "The Lion King," respectively
-- and shows almost nothing of the final results (which are, however, offered for viewer delectation online). Film's Preston Sturges-like, young-doofuses-make-good resolution [pivots] on the proposition that the homemovies become popular with local residents, but there's no internal evidence that this could be in any sense true. To the contrary.
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