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Image:François Boucher 029.jpg|thumb|The toilet of Venus (François Boucher)

English

Etymology

From French toilette, 'small cloth', diminutive of toile, 'cloth'; a cloth used to protect garments when making up the hair or shaving.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈtɔɪ.lət/
  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-toilet.ogg



Noun

Image:Decorative toilet seat.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Western toilet Image:JapaneseSquatToilet.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Asian squat toilet Image:Ostia-Toilets.JPG|thumb|right|150px|Ancient Roman toilets Image:Outhouse bathroom.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Outdoor toilet (an outhouse)

  1. Personal grooming; washing, dressing etc.
  2. : 1917 "It is a quarter-past two," he said. "Your telegram was dispatched about one. But no one can glance at your toilet and attire without seeing that your disturbance dates from the moment of your waking." — Arthur Conan Doyle, s:The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge|"The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge".
  3. : 1917Reports from abroad and from this country indicate that great good has been accomplished in infectious diseases and in catarrhal conditions of the respiratory tract by so-called toilet of the mouth, nose, and throat. — US Army, "Circular Letter, Surgeon General’s Office, March 22, 1918", 1
  4. A dressing-room.
  5. A room or enclosed cubicle containing a lavatory, e.g., a bathroom or water closet (w.c.).
  6. : 1906 there were also tons of garbage festering in the sun, and the greasy laundry of the workers hung out to dry, and dining rooms littered with food and black with flies, and toilet rooms that were open sewers. — Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, s:The Jungle/Chapter 26|Chapter 26.
  7. : When feasible, place the toilet near the river's edge to encourage urination in the river unless there is adequate volume for urination in the toilet. 2.
  8. A lavatory or device for depositing human waste and then flushing it away with water.
  9. : EPA is currently developing the specification for high-efficiency toilets. All HETs that meet WaterSense criteria for efficiency and performance will be eligible to receive a label once EPA finalizes the specification. — 3
  10. Other similar devices, such as squat toilets, as in Japan or the Middle East.
  11. A shabby or dirty place, especially, a lounge/bar/pub/tavern.
  12. : 1982 Look around you. It's a toilet. — Harrison Ford to River Phoenix in w:The Mosquito Coast.


Usage notes

Before the 20th century, toilet universally referred to personal grooming, bathing and washing combing or arranging one's hair, shaving, etc., a sense preserved today in toiletry 'personal grooming item'. Nowadays, it is mostly used to indicate a lavatory. "Toilet of the mouth", however, is still is use by oral surgeons.

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Danish

Noun

toilet

  1. toilet#English|toilet (room containing lavatory and lavatory)
  2. men's room / ladies' room


Category:Danish nouns Category:Rooms Category:WC

da:toilet fa:toilet fr:toilet ko:toilet io:toilet it:toilet kk:toilet lo:toilet hu:toilet nl:toilet pl:toilet ru:toilet fi:toilet ta:toilet te:toilet vi:toilet tr:toilet zh:toilet

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toilet

Noun 1

a plumbing fixture for the disposal of human waste

Synonyms


Noun 2

a room containing a toilet

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Lavatory \Lav"a*to*ry\, n.; pl. Lavatories. [L. lavatorium:
cf. lavatoire. See Lave to wash, and cf. Laver.]
1. A place for washing.
[1913 Webster]

2. A basin or other vessel for washing in.
[1913 Webster]

3. A wash or lotion for a diseased part.
[1913 Webster]

4. A place where gold is obtained by washing.
[1913 Webster]

5. A room containing one or more sinks for washing, as well
as one or more toilet fixtures; also called bathroom,
toilet, and sometimes commode. Commode and toilet may
refer to a room with only a toilet fixture, but without a
sink.

Syn: toilet, lavatory, can, facility, john, privy, bathroom.
[WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Toilet \Toi"let\, n. [F. toilette, dim. of toile cloth. See
Toil a net.]
1. A covering of linen, silk, or tapestry, spread over a
table in a chamber or a dressing room.
[1913 Webster]

2. A dressing table. --Pope.
[1913 Webster]

3. Act or mode of dressing, or that which is arranged in
dressing; attire; dress; as, her toilet is perfect.
[Written also toilette.]
[1913 Webster]

Toilet glass, a looking-glass for a toilet table or for a
dressing room.

Toilet service, Toilet set, earthenware, glass, and other
utensils for a dressing room.

Toilet table, a dressing table; a toilet. See def. 2 above.


To snake one's toilet, to dress one's self; especially, to
dress one's self carefully.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet toilet
n 1: a room equipped with toilet facilities [syn: lavatory, lav,
can, john, privy, bathroom]
2: a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination [syn: can,
commode, crapper, pot, potty, stool, throne]
3: misfortune resulting in lost effort or money; "his career
was in the gutter"; "all that work went down the sewer";
"pensions are in the toilet" [syn: gutter, sewer]
4: the act of dressing and preparing yourself; "he made his
morning toilet and went to breakfast" [syn: toilette]
Moby Dictionary
WC , backhouse , basement , bathroom , bedpan , bog , can , chamber ,
chamber pot , chemical closet , chemical toilet , closet ,
comfort station , commode , convenience , crapper , dressing ,
earth closet , facilities , facility , grooming , head , hopper , jerry ,
john , johnny , johnny house , jordan , latrine , lavatory , loo ,
making up , necessary , outhouse , piss pot , pot , potty , potty-chair ,
powder room , privy , rest room , stool , throne , thunder mug ,
toilet room , toilette , urinal , washroom , water closet


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