Faucet vs. Spout — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Faucet and Spout
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Faucet
A device for regulating the flow of a liquid from a reservoir such as a pipe or drum. See Note at andiron.
Spout
To gush forth in a rapid stream or in spurts
Water spouted from the faucet.
Faucet
(North America) An exposed plumbing fitting; a tap or spigot; a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir.
Spout
To discharge a liquid or other substance continuously or in spurts
Whales spouting offshore.
Faucet
(game development) One or several systems that inject currency into the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation
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Spout
To speak in a wordy, dull, or pompous manner
Spouted on about how well-made the building was.
Faucet
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 tubular spout, stopped with a movable plug, spigot, valve, or slide.
Spout
To discharge (a flowing or spurting liquid); release
The statue's mouth spouted water.
Faucet
The enlarged end of a section of pipe which receives the spigot end of the next section.
Spout
To utter in a wordy, dull, or pompous manner
Spouted statistics to prove his point.
Faucet
A regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir
Spout
Chiefly British To pawn.
Spout
A tube, lip, or hole through which liquid is released or discharged
The spout of a teapot.
Spout
A continuous stream of liquid.
Spout
The burst of spray from the blowhole of a whale.
Spout
Chiefly British A pawnshop.
Spout
A tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged. thumb|
I dropped my china teapot, and its spout broke.
Spout
A stream of liquid.
Spout
The mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale.
Spout
(AU) A hollow stump formed when a tree branch breaks off.
Spout
(intransitive) To gush forth in a jet or stream
Water spouts from a hole.
Spout
(ambitransitive) To eject water or liquid in a jet.
The whale spouted.
Spout
(intransitive) To speak tediously or pompously.
Spout
(transitive) To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.
Spout
To pawn; to pledge.
To spout a watch
Spout
To throw out forcibly and abundantly, as liquids through an orifice or a pipe; to eject in a jet; as, an elephant spouts water from his trunk.
Who kept Jonas in the fish's mawTill he was spouted up at Ninivee?
Next on his belly floats the mighty whale . . . He spouts the tide.
Spout
To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.
Pray, spout some French, son.
Spout
To pawn; to pledge; as, to spout a watch.
Spout
To issue with violence, or in a jet, as a liquid through a narrow orifice, or from a spout; as, water spouts from a hole; blood spouts from an artery.
All the glittering hillIs bright with spouting rills.
Spout
To eject water or liquid in a jet.
Spout
To utter a speech, especially in a pompous manner.
Spout
That through which anything spouts; a discharging lip, pipe, or orifice; a tube, pipe, or conductor of any kind through which a liquid is poured, or by which it is conveyed in a stream from one place to another; as, the spout of a teapot; a spout for conducting water from the roof of a building.
In whales . . . an ejection thereof [water] is contrived by a fistula, or spout, at the head.
From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide.
Spout
A trough for conducting grain, flour, etc., into a receptacle.
Spout
A discharge or jet of water or other liquid, esp. when rising in a column; also, a waterspout.
Spout
An opening that allows the passage of liquids or grain
Spout
Gush forth in a sudden stream or jet;
Water gushed forth
Spout
Talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner
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