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).
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. OED reports that faucet is now the common word in American English for the whole apparatus.
雙語例句
1. The faucet has developed a drip.
那個水龍頭已經開始滴水了.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
2. Water is dripping from that leaky faucet.
水正從漏水的籠頭滴下來.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
3. That faucet dribbles badly.
那個水龍頭漏水嚴重.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
4. She turned off the faucet and dried her hands.
她關掉水龍頭，把手擦幹。
來自辭典例句
5. Is It'something you can turn on and off like a faucet?