The Iranian threat, of course, is real, but its immediacy gets turned on and off by the Prime Minister like a faucet.
In this tube the coals were placed, and when the water in the urn was hot, it could be drawn off by means of a faucet at the side.
The drip-drip of water from the faucet sounded loud in the quiet.
Giving the pitcher to Van Landing, she told him to fill it and pointed to a faucet in the hall.
She watched with interest the water run steaming from the faucet.
Light heater and turn on faucet so that the water will flow into the tub as quickly as it is heated in the tank.
The rhythmic dripping of a faucet is audible through the flat.
Under no circumstances touch the wire from the faucet to the binding posts of the fuse gap.
The water comes through a pipe, and is turned on by a faucet.
Fasten one end to the faucet of a water-pipe (one in a set bowl preferred) by a very short piece of rubber tube.
c.1400, from Old French fausset (14c.) "breach, spigot, stopper, peg (of a barrel)," of unknown origin; perhaps diminutive of Latin faux, fauces "upper part of the throat, pharynx, gullet." Barnhart and others suggest the Old French word is from fausser "to damage, break into," from Late Latin falsare (see false).
Spigot 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. Faucet is now the common word in American English for the whole apparatus.