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Faucet vs Fountain - What's the difference?

faucet | fountain |

As nouns the difference between faucet and fountain

is that faucet is (north america) an exposed plumbing fitting; a tap or spigot; a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir while fountain is (label) a spring, natural source of water.

As a verb fountain is

to flow or gush as if from a fountain.

faucet

English

(wikipedia faucet)

Alternative forms

* ** faucet ** faucett ** fawcett * ** faucet ** faucett ** fawcet ** fawcett ** fawset * ** fasset ** faucet ** faucete ** faulsed ** faulset ** fauset * ** faucet ** faucit ** fausset ** fosset * ** faucet ** forset ** fosset * ** faucet (modern standard spelling)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (North America) An exposed plumbing fitting; a tap or spigot; a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir.

    • Synonyms

    * tap, spigot

    Hypernyms

    * valve

    References

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    fountain

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) A spring, natural source of water.
  • An artificial, usually ornamental, water feature (usually in a garden or public place) consisting of one or more streams of water originating from a statue or other structure.
  • The structure from which an artificial fountain can issue.
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    • , passage=As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain , and he fled away with a cameo note.}}
  • A reservoir from which liquid can be drawn.
  • A source, origin of a flow (e.g. of favors, of knowledge).
  • A juggling pattern typically done with an even number of props where each prop is caught by the same hand that thows it.
  • (label) A roundel barry wavy argent and azure.
  • (label) A soda fountain.

    • Synonyms

    * fount * wellspring

    Derived terms

    * fountainlet * fountain pen * fountainhead * drinking fountain * soda fountain * water fountain

    Related terms

    * font * fountaineer

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To flow or gush as if from a fountain.
  • * (Tom Reamy), Blind Voices
    • The fireflies swept toward him from all directions, in streams and rivers and currents of light, a vortex a hundred yards across, spiraling into the brighter center. They met over his supine body like ocean breakers, cascading, fountaining into the air.

    External links

    * (wikipedia "fountain")

    Anagrams

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    References