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    • 1.4.2 Derived terms
    • 1.4.3 Translations
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English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:faucetWikipedia

Alternative forms

[edit] Variant spellings

• (Middle English–15th century):
  • faucet
  • faucett
  • fawcett
• (16th century):
  • faucet
  • faucett
  • fawcet
  • fawcett
  • fawset
• (17th century):
  • fasset
  • faucet
  • faucete
  • faulsed
  • faulset
  • fauset
• (18th century):
  • faucet
  • faucit
  • fausset
  • fosset
• (19th century):
  • faucet
  • forset
  • fosset
• (20th century–present):
  • faucet

Etymology

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From Middle English faucet, fawcett, from Old French fausset, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Late Latin falsāre (“to falsify”) or from a diminutive of Latin faux, faucēs (“throat”). Alternatively, from Old Norse foss, fors (“waterfall”); if so, cognate with English force, foss.

Pronunciation

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• (UK) enPR: fôʹsĭt, IPA(key): /ˈfɔːsɪt/
• Rhymes: -ɔːsɪt
• (US) IPA(key): /ˈfɔsɪt/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /ˈfɑsɪt/

• Audio (US):

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• Homophone: Fawcett

Noun

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faucet (plural faucets)

1. (Canada, US) An exposed plumbing fitting; a tap or spigot; a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir. Synonyms: tap, spigot
   • 2020, Brandon Taylor, Real Life, Daunt Books Originals, page 80:Wallace beats his palm against the reluctant handle of the faucet until it gives way, and the water comes out too hard, too fast.
2. (game development) One or several systems that inject currency into the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation Antonym: sink
3. A tapered tube, designed to be forced into a matching hole in a barrel, with the outer end holding a plug cock for decanting liquid from the barrel.
   • 1585, Adrianus Junius, John Higgins, The Nomenclator, Or Remembrancer of Adrianus Iunius Physician ... VVritten ... in Latine, Greeke, French and Other Forrein Tongues : and Now in English by J. Higins... VVith ... a Dictional Index, London: Ralph Newberie and Henrie Denham, sourced from British Library, via Google Books, page 238:The pipe or faucet or rather fast set, so called, because it is set fast in.

Hypernyms

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• valve

Derived terms

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• Bitcoin faucet
• faucet aerator
• faucetless
• faucetlike
• health faucet

Translations

[edit] an exposed plumbing fitting; a tap or spigot; a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir — see also tap,‎ spigot

Albanian: rubinet m Arabic: حَنَفِيَّة f (ḥanafiyya), صُنْبُور m (ṣunbūr) Gulf Arabic: حنفية (ḥanafīya) Hijazi Arabic: بَزبوز m (bazbūz) Moroccan Arabic: بزبوز m (bazbūz), روبيني m (rūbīni) Armenian: ծորակ (hy) (corak) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܵܢܒܘܼܠܵܐ m (bānbulā), ܦܸܬܝܘܿܢ (pityon) Azerbaijani: kran Basque: txorrota Belarusian: кран m (kran) Bengali: কল (bn) (kol) Brunei Malay: paip Bulgarian: чешма́ (bg) f (češmá), кран (bg) m (kran) Burmese: ဘုံပိုင် (my) (bhumpuing) Catalan: aixeta (ca) f, canella (ca) f Chinese: Cantonese: 水龍頭 / 水龙头 (seoi2 lung4 tau4) Hokkien: 水道頭 / 水道头 (zh-min-nan) (chúi-tō-thâu), 水拵頭 / 水拵头 (chúi-chūn-thâu) Mandarin: 水龍頭 / 水龙头 (zh) (shuǐlóngtóu), 龍頭 / 龙头 (zh) (lóngtóu) Czech: kohout (cs) m, kohoutek (cs) m, pípa (cs) f Danish: vandhane (da) c Dutch: kraan (nl) f Esperanto: krano (eo) Estonian: kraan Finnish: hana (fi), vesihana (fi) French: champlure (fr) f (Canada), robinet (fr) m Galician: billa (gl) f Georgian: კრანი (ḳrani) (informal, proscribed), ონკანი (onḳani) German: Armatur (de) f, Auslaufventil n (technical), Hahn (de) m, Kran (de) m, Mischbatterie (de) f, Spund (de) m, Zapfen (de) m, Wasserhahn (de) m, Greek: βρύση (el) (vrýsi) Gujarati: નળ m (naḷ) Hebrew: בֶּרֶז (he) m (bérez) Hindi: नल (hi) m (nal), टोंटी f (ṭõṭī) Hungarian: csap (hu), csaptelep (hu), vízcsap (hu) Icelandic: hani (is) m, krani m Indonesian: keran (id) Ingrian: naka Irish: buacaire m, sconna m Italian: rubinetto (it) m, spina (it) f Japanese: 蛇口 (ja) (じゃぐち, jaguchi) Kazakh: кран (kran) Khmer: ចំពួយ (km) (cɑmpuəy), ក្បាលម៉ាស៊ីនទឹក (kbaal maasiin tɨk) Korean: 수도꼭지 (ko) (sudokkokji) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: henef (ku) f, henîfe (ku) f, henefî (ku) f, mislik (ku) f, zembere (ku) f Kyrgyz: кран (kran) Lao: ກ໊ອກ (kǭk), ກ໊ອກນ້ຳ (kǭk nam) Latvian: krāns m Lithuanian: čiaupas m Macedonian: чешма (mk) f (češma), славина f (slavina) Malay: kepala paip Malayalam: ടാപ്പ് (ml) (ṭāppŭ) Maltese: vit Maori: kōrere, kōrere wai, putawai Marathi: नळ (mr) m (naḷ), तोटी f (toṭī) Mongolian: Cyrillic: крант (mn) (krant), усны цорго (usny corgo) Norman: coq m Norwegian: Bokmål: kran (no) m Ottoman Turkish: موصلق (musluk) Pashto: شيردان (ps) m (širdān) Persian: Dari: شیر (fa) (šēr) Iranian Persian: شیر (fa) (šir) Plautdietsch: Kron m Polish: bateria (pl) f, kran (pl) m, kurek (pl) m, zawór (pl) m Portuguese: bica (pt) f, torneira (pt) f Punjabi: Gurmukhi: ਟੂਟੀ f (ṭūṭī) Shahmukhi: ٹُوٹِی f (ṭūṭī) Romanian: robinet (ro) n or m Russian: кран (ru) m (kran), крант (ru) m (krant) (obsolete) Samoan: paipa Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: сла̀вина f Roman: slàvina (sh) f Sinhalese: කරාම (karāma) Slovak: kohútik Slovene: pipa (sl) f Spanish: canilla (es) f (Argentina, Northern Central Spain, Paraguay, Uruguay), caño (es) m (Peru), grifo (es) m, llave (es) f (Bolivia, Central America, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Venezuela), paja (es) f (Nicaragua), pluma (es) f (Colombian Atlantic Coast), bitoque m Swahili: mfereji (sw), bilula (sw) class n Swedish: kran (sv) c Tagalog: gripo (tl) Tajik: кран (kran) Tamil: குழாய் (ta) (kuḻāy) Tetum: torneira Thai: ก๊อกน้ำ (gɔ́k-náam), ก๊อก (th) (gɔ́k) Tibetan: ཁ་གཅུས (kha gcus) Tongan: tepi Turkish: musluk (tr) Turkmen: kran Ukrainian: кран m (kran) Urdu: نَل m (nal) Uyghur: كران (kran), ۋودوپروۋود جۈمىكى (wodoprowod jümiki) Uzbek: kran (uz) Vietnamese: vòi (vi), rô-bi-nê Walloon: cråne (wa) Welsh: dwsel m, tap (cy) m

Anagrams

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• fucate

Middle English

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Alternative forms

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• fawcett

Etymology

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From Old French fausset, perhaps from Latin faux (“throat”).

Noun

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faucet

1. faucet

Descendants

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• English: faucet

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