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Definition of Faucet |
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Faucet
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. Related Definitions: Also, And, As, Be, Called, Cask, Cock, Desired, Drawing, End, Enlarged, Fixture, For, From, In, It, Liquid, May, Molasses, Movable, Next, Of, Oil, Or, Other, Pipe, Plug, Quantities, Section, Slide, Spigot, Spout, Stopped, Such, Tap, The, Tubular, Valve, Vessel, Water, Which, With |
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Faucet Quotations
Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second. Robert Frost Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write. Jean Anouilh This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water. Charles Olson Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on. Billie Holiday Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so. Marya Mannes |
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Faucet Translations
faucet in Danish is hane faucet in Dutch is kraan, tap, tapkraan faucet in Finnish is hana faucet in French is robinet faucet in German is Absperrvorrichtung {f} faucet in Norwegian is tappekran faucet in Spanish is grifo faucet in Swedish is kran |
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