water faucet

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• water faucet — noun a faucet for drawing water from a pipe or cask • Syn: ↑water tap, ↑tap, ↑hydrant • Derivationally related forms: ↑tapster (for: ↑tap) • Hypernyms: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• Water heating — is a thermodynamic process using an energy source to heat water above its initial temperature. Typical domestic uses of hot water are for cooking, cleaning, bathing, and space heating. In industry, both hot water and water heated to steam have… …   Wikipedia

• Water conservation — refers to reducing the use of water.The goals of water conservation efforts include: * Sustainability To ensure availability for future generations, the withdrawal of fresh water from an ecosystem should not exceed its natural replacement rate. * …   Wikipedia

• Faucet aerator — A faucet aerator is often found at the tip of model indoor water faucet. Without an aerator, water usually flows out of a faucet as one big stream. An aerator spreads this stream into many little droplets. This helps save water and reduce… …   Wikipedia

• water tap — noun a faucet for drawing water from a pipe or cask • Syn: ↑water faucet, ↑tap, ↑hydrant • Derivationally related forms: ↑tapster (for: ↑tap) • Hypernyms: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• faucet — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. tap, spigot, cock, spout, valve; spile, bung. See closure, opening. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. tap, fixture, spigot, cock, drain, petcock, plumbing, stopcock, hot water faucet, cold water faucet, hot*,… …   English dictionary for students

• faucet — is a late Middle English word meaning ‘a tap for drawing liquor from a barrel or cask’. In BrE it survives in technical uses (often combined with spigot), but in domestic use it has given way entirely to tap. In AmE, faucet is in widespread use… …   Modern English usage

• Water supply and sanitation in the United States — is provided by towns and cities, public utilities that span several jurisdictions and rural cooperatives. About 15 million Americans are served by their own wells. Public water supply and sanitation systems are regulated by state level regulatory …   Wikipedia

• Water efficiency — can be defined as *1) the accomplishment of a function, task, process, or result with the minimal amount of water feasible; *2) an indicator of the relationship between the amount of water required for a particular purpose and the amount of water …   Wikipedia

• Faucet — Fau cet, n. [F. fausset, perh. fr. L. fauces throat.] 1. A fixture for drawing a liquid, as water, molasses, oil, etc., from a pipe, cask, or other vessel, in such quantities as may be desired; called also {tap}, and {cock}. It consists of a… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• water hammer — n. 1. the hammering sound caused in a pipe containing water when live steam is passed through it 2. the thump of water in a pipe, caused by an air lock, when a faucet is suddenly closed …   English World dictionary