Faucet

Noun

 * 1)  An exposed plumbing fitting; a tap or spigot; a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir.

Synonyms

 * tap, spigot

Hypernyms

 * valve

Adjectives for Faucet
defective; rushing; singing; whistling; mixing; shining; dripping.

Thesaurus
ball cock, ball valve, bung, bunghole, check valve, cock, cork, drain cock, draw cock, gate, hydrant, lid, needle valve, peg, petcock, pin, plug, sea cock, spigot, spike, spile, spill, stop, stopcock, stopgap, stopper, stopple, tap, valve, valvula, valvule

Alternative forms

 * faucet
 * faucett
 * fawcett
 * faucet
 * faucett
 * fawcet
 * fawcett
 * fawset
 * fawcett
 * fawset


 * fasset
 * faucet
 * faucete
 * faulsed
 * faulset
 * fauset
 * fauset


 * faucet
 * faucit
 * fausset
 * fosset
 * faucet
 * forset
 * fosset
 * faucet
 * fosset
 * faucet
 * faucet



Etymology
From faucet:, fawcett:.

Translations

 * Arabic: صنبور
 * Morocco:
 * Catalan: aixeta
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, vesihana
 * French:
 * German:, , , ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Kurdish: zembere, henef , mislik , henefî , henîfe
 * Macedonian:


 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: fa
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: grifo, canilla , caño  , llave  , paja  , pluma
 * Turkish:

Alternative forms

 * fawcett

Etymology
From fausset:, perhaps from  faux:.

Noun

 * 1) faucet

Descendants

 * English: faucet