Crossword clues for faucet
faucet
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 spout, stopped with a movable plug, spigot, valve, or slide.
The enlarged end of a section of pipe which receives the spigot end of the next section.
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 suggest the Old French word is from fausser "to damage, break into," from Late Latin falsare (see false).\n
\nSpigot and faucet was the name of an old type of tap for a barrel or cask, consisting of a hollow, tapering tube, which was driven at the narrow end into a barrel, and a screw into the tube which regulated the flow of the liquid. Properly, it seems, the spigot was the tube, the faucet the screw, but the senses have merged or reversed over time. OED reports that faucet is now the common word in American English for the whole apparatus.
Wiktionary
n. (context North America English) An exposed plumbing fitting; a tap or spigot; a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir.
WordNet
n. a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir
Wikipedia
Faucet may refer to:
- Tap (valve)
- Bitcoin faucet
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.