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a device that controls the flow of water from a pipe 龙头;旋塞 the hot/cold faucet 热水/冷水龙头 to turn a faucet on/off 开/关龙头
Extra ExamplesHe stuck his head under the faucet. 他把头伸到水龙头的下面。 Is the faucet dripping again? 水龙头又滴水了吗? She repaired a leaky faucet. 她把漏水的水龙头修好了。 She turned the sink faucet on. 她打开了洗涤槽的水龙头。 the water from a faucet 水龙头流出的水
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- water
- cold-water
- hot-water
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- open
- turn on
- turn off
- …
- drip
- leak
- handle
- spout
- from faucet
- under faucet
Word Originlate Middle English (denoting a bung for the vent hole of a cask, or a tap for drawing liquor from a container): from Old French fausset, from Provençal falset, from falsar ‘to bore’. The current sense dates from the mid 19th cent.