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toilet
[ toi-lit ]
noun
- 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.
toilet
/ ˈ³Ùɔɪ±ôɪ³Ù /
noun
- 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
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of toilet1
Idioms and Phrases
- go down / in the toilet, to become worthless or profitless; be doomed:
The team's entire season went down the toilet.
Example Sentences
So there's video somewhere of everyone with the door open on the toilet.
"Not being able to flush the toilet becomes a health issue and, on a personal level, a wellbeing issue."
It is estimated that more than 95% of the world’s intercontinental information travels through underwater cables that are no bigger than the pipes at the back of your toilet.
The inside of the former Victorian toilet block has now been transformed - with fresh painting, new flooring, a brand new roof and heating being installed.
In the third, she alleges she was left to deliver her dead baby into a hospital toilet.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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