faucet

• n. プラグ；ソケット
• n. （水栓）人名；（英）Fawcett.

ラテン語のfauces、喉、咽喉から。蛇口。

faucet (n.)

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.

1. The faucet has developed a drip.

その蛇口から水が滴り始めている。

2.Water is dripping from that leaky faucet .

水が水漏れした籠頭から滴下している。

3.That faucet dribbles badly.

その蛇口からの水漏れがひどい。

4.She turned off the faucet and dried her hands.

彼女は蛇口を止め、手を乾かした。

5.Is It 'something you can turn on and off like a faucet ？

これは水道の蛇口のようなものではありませんか。開けたら開けて、閉めたら閉めますか。