toilet
a bathroom fixture consisting of a bowl, usually with a detachable, hinged seat and lid, and a device for flushing with water, used for defecation and urination.
a lavatory.
a bathroom.
a dressing room, especially one containing a bath.
the act or process of dressing or grooming oneself, including bathing and arranging the hair: to make one's toilet; busy at her toilet.
the dress or costume of a person; any particular costume: toilet of white silk.
Surgery. the cleansing of a part after childbirth or a wound after an operation.
Archaic. dressing table.
Idioms about toilet
go down / in the toilet, to become worthless or profitless; be doomed: The team's entire season went down the toilet.
Origin of toilet
1- Also toilette (for defs. 6, 8).
Words that may be confused with toilet
- toilet , toilette
Words Nearby toilet
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How to use toilet in a sentence
Engineers are now developing smart toilets to analyze poop and pee.
Here’s the summer science you might have missed | Janet Raloff | September 1, 2020 | Science News For StudentsA cat politely peeing into a toilet—it almost sounds like a dream.
Toilet training your cat isn’t as great as it sounds | Candice Wang | August 27, 2020 | Popular-ScienceIt’s 12 pounds when it’s empty, and takes some forethought to load and set up, so it’s not the most mobile of bathrooms, but it feels the most like an indoor toilet.
Let’s say you only have one bathroom and midway through the project you realize you can’t repair your toilet before the end of the day and need to call in an expert to help.
It’s all part of a carefully crafted set of green syllabi schools — even though they’re shut for the moment because of the pandemic — are developing Secmol students working on dry toilets.
Schools Teach Kids How to Survive the Future’s Harsh Climates | Charu Kasturi | August 7, 2020 | Ozy
Rogen refuses to share his toilet paper with Franco, and then they run into trouble starting a fire.
James Franco and Seth Rogen Get ‘Naked and Afraid’… And It’s Hilarious | Marlow Stern | December 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe was in the bathroom, perhaps trying to flush some pot down the toilet, when a cop burst in.
‘I Can’t Breathe!’ ‘I Can’t Breathe!’ A Moral Indictment of Cop Culture | Michael Daly | December 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBy this time there were three of us outside the toilet and one of us ran to get security.
Middle East Murder Mystery: Who Killed an American Teacher in Abu Dhabi? | Chris Allbritton | December 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTShe was obsessed with the flower-printed, scented toilet paper.
How ‘Titanic ’Helped This Brave Young Woman Escape North Korea’s Totalitarian State | Lizzie Crocker | October 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe would load his chair with groceries and other purchases, once a 30-roll package of toilet paper.
How Brooklyn’s First Ice Cream Girl Fought City Hall–and Won | Michael Daly | October 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTA pair of thin trousers and a shirt hanging down outside instead of being tucked in at the waist, and his toilet is made.
Alila, Our Little Philippine Cousin | Mary Hazelton WadePerfect cleanliness and careful adjustment of each article in the dress are indispensable in a finished toilet.
The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness | Florence HartleyA toilet may be as offensive to good taste and propriety by being too elaborate, as by being slovenly.
The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness | Florence HartleyAll the toilet arrangements were perfect, and each room had a recess in which was a large enamelled bath.
Bella Donna | Robert HichensHe surmised it from the fact that his master disliked scent, even in his toilet soap.
The Doctor of Pimlico | William Le Queux
British Dictionary definitions for toilet
/ (ˈtɔɪlɪt) /
another word for lavatory
old-fashioned the act of dressing and preparing oneself: to make one's toilet
old-fashioned a dressing table or the articles used when making one's toilet
rare costume
the cleansing of a wound, etc, after an operation or childbirth
Origin of toilet
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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