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faucet
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Word definitions for faucet in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Faucet \Fau"cet\, n. [F. fausset, perh. fr. L. fauces throat.] A fixture for drawing a liquid, as water, molasses, oil, etc., from a pipe, cask, or other vessel, in such quantities as may be desired; -- called also tap , and cock . It consists of a tubular ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB turn ▪ Q.. When I turn a faucet on, water comes out of my shower. ▪ Since my first days in the Congress, I have supported efforts to turn off the faucet of big-money campaign contributions. ▪ I turn on some faucets and ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, from Old French fausset (14c.) "breach, spigot, stopper, peg (of a barrel)," which is of unknown origin; perhaps diminutive of Latin faux , fauces "upper part of the throat, pharynx, gullet." Not in Watkins, but Barnhart, Gamillscheg, and others ...
Usage examples of faucet.
But the spell breaks, the cut is plunged into the aerated stream of her Puraflo faucet, the finger wrapped in a floral blue paper towel.
I could hear the faucet dripping again on the carpet: plink, plink, plink.
An enraged Freya demanded the identity of the prankster who had dared to ruin her scene, but there was no one within twenty yards of the faucet except an unconscious drunk with a condom for a hat.
Like Elaine, there was little Harrison could tell Shipton, after his son-in-law had completely revived him with some cold water from the bathroom faucet.
There was just the bathtub with water spilling over its sides and the water still rushing out of the faucet at full blast.
And that was in the days of the old morgue, before refrigeration existed, when there was only a trinkle of cold water from a faucet running over each corpse!
Automatically, he scanned the premises for catly mischief, just as Nick Bamba scanned a vacated guest room for missing lightbulbs and dripping hot water faucets.
Nick Bamba scanned a vacated guest room for missing lightbulbs and dripping hot water faucets.
The ceiling was festooned with chamber pots, lavatory seats, Victorian enema pumps, soil-glaze drainpipes, grease traps, earthenware urinals, calking tools, spanners, closet hoppers, faucets, tack moulds, basin wrenches, yarning chisels, a very old thawing steamer, bibcocks, a jerking shank and numerous blowtorches with assorted ends.
One writer, who evidently has not read Poilane, recommends tying plastic bags round the handles of your water faucets to avoid sealing them closed when the dough from your hands dries and hardens on them.
Absently Kerrie turned on the faucet, splashed a little water into the plant, then turned the full force of the spray on the dirt-covered plastic bib still in the sink.
And then our memories will decay, like the heavier transuranium elements, and we will find ourselves divorced from other people and living in big houses with interlocking pavement stones, room deodorizers, and genuine ten-karat gold faucets.
The bathroom was a radiance of white marble, with a huge clawfoot tub and glittering brass faucets and shower head.
Thoughts of Karp and fingerprints got muddled up with stainless steel faucets and brass-accented showerheads.
Giles was there, grinning at me silently, stretched out in the bathtub with one leg over the side, his head cradled against the metal of the faucets, apparently quite, quite nude, and, apparently, quite, quite dead.