Facsimile
noun
Exact copy or reproduction of something.
The museum displayed a facsimile of the original artwork.
Often appears as...
- facsimile of the original
- facsimile copy
noun
A faxed document.
Please send me a facsimile of the proposal for review.
Often appears as...
- send a facsimile
- receive a facsimile
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Formal
noun
Exact copy or reproduction of something.
The museum displayed a facsimile of the original artwork.
Often appears as...
- facsimile of the original
- facsimile copy
noun
A faxed document.
Please send me a facsimile of the proposal for review.
Often appears as...
- send a facsimile
- receive a facsimile
Usage tips
Formal
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Not Identical
Although 'facsimile' means an exact copy, there can be minor differences from the original.
The signature on the facsimile seemed less vibrant than on the original.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Use
Facsimile is often used regarding historical artifacts to allow people to experience what the original would be like.
A facsimile of the ancient map is available for students to examine.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Objects
The term is usually reserved for tangible reproductions, such as documents, works of art, or even buildings.
The architecture firm built a facsimile of the old Roman villa.
Pro Tip 1/3Not Identical
Although 'facsimile' means an exact copy, there can be minor differences from the original.
The signature on the facsimile seemed less vibrant than on the original.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Use
Facsimile is often used regarding historical artifacts to allow people to experience what the original would be like.
A facsimile of the ancient map is available for students to examine.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Objects
The term is usually reserved for tangible reproductions, such as documents, works of art, or even buildings.
The architecture firm built a facsimile of the old Roman villa.
Pro Tip 1/3Not Identical
Although 'facsimile' means an exact copy, there can be minor differences from the original.
The signature on the facsimile seemed less vibrant than on the original.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Use
Facsimile is often used regarding historical artifacts to allow people to experience what the original would be like.
A facsimile of the ancient map is available for students to examine.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Objects
The term is usually reserved for tangible reproductions, such as documents, works of art, or even buildings.
The architecture firm built a facsimile of the old Roman villa.
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Susan Graham: A new way...
It cannot be done by simply planting trees. We need to bring native, complex ecosystems back to life, and it requires deep ecological expertise. Until now, we have been limited to poor facsimiles,
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Susan Graham: A new way...
It cannot be done by simply planting trees. We need to bring native, complex ecosystems back to life, and it requires deep ecological expertise. Until now, we have been limited to poor facsimiles,
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Lionel Shriver
American Journalist
As a child, I was always a sucker for anything in miniature, and it didn't have to be a dress: a desk, a Matchbox truck. Perhaps a childhood attraction to shrunken but compellingly realistic facsimiles is commonplace, if only because children themselves are compellingly realistic facsimiles of the giants who rule their world.
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Panos Cosmatos
Canadian Director
The thing I do miss about the way some sequels were in the past was that each film felt like its own unique, complete tone. Now, sequels are tonal facsimiles of the ones before them, like a television series, whereas back in the past sequels would often be radically different from the ones before.
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Michael J. Fox
Canadian Actor
Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.
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Robert Rauschenberg
American Artist
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.
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Ted Allen
American Entertainer
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.
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Susie Orbach
English Psychologist
There are so many young women who tip over into being a facsimile: they don't really inhabit their lives or their bodies.
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Christopher Miller
American Director
What's interesting about Lego is it's constantly reminding you that it's a facsimile of something else.
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Steve Kazee
American Actor
If you try to create someone else's performance, it becomes a facsimile of a facsimile.
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Robert Smithson
American Artist
History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information.
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Tama Janowitz
American Novelist
I felt my whole life was a facsimile of a life.
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Lionel Shriver
American Journalist
As a child, I was always a sucker for anything in miniature, and it didn't have to be a dress: a desk, a Matchbox truck. Perhaps a childhood attraction to shrunken but compellingly realistic facsimiles is commonplace, if only because children themselves are compellingly realistic facsimiles of the giants who rule their world.
Quote examples
Panos Cosmatos
Canadian Director
The thing I do miss about the way some sequels were in the past was that each film felt like its own unique, complete tone. Now, sequels are tonal facsimiles of the ones before them, like a television series, whereas back in the past sequels would often be radically different from the ones before.
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Michael J. Fox
Canadian Actor
Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.
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Robert Rauschenberg
American Artist
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.
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Ted Allen
American Entertainer
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.
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Susie Orbach
English Psychologist
There are so many young women who tip over into being a facsimile: they don't really inhabit their lives or their bodies.
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Christopher Miller
American Director
What's interesting about Lego is it's constantly reminding you that it's a facsimile of something else.
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Steve Kazee
American Actor
If you try to create someone else's performance, it becomes a facsimile of a facsimile.
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Robert Smithson
American Artist
History is a facsimile of events held together by finally biographical information.
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Tama Janowitz
American Novelist
I felt my whole life was a facsimile of a life.
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