lavn.
/lav/, U.S. /læv/ colloquial (chiefly British).
A toilet; = lavatory n. 5b, lavatory n. 5c.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > privy or latrine > [noun] > water-closet or lavatory
closet1496
water closet1736
water closet1747
throne room1787
W.C.1815
netty1825
convenience1841
Johnny1847
lavabo1852
restrooma1856
small room1858
cloakroom1865
lavatory1874
bathroom1883
toilet1886
can1900
place1902
lav1913
washroom1919
head1920
lavvy1922
dike1923
smallest room1930
John1931
khazi1932
loo1940
biffy1942
Wa1953
shitcan1954
commode1958
cludgie1961
1913 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. I. vii. 99 Tell the army to line up behind the lav. at four o'clock.
1961 J. B. Priestley Saturn over Water xii. 159 In a recess..were two pails of water and an Elsan kind of lav.
1973 J. Thomson Death Cap iv. 64 Gilbert Leacock went out to the lav... I heard the chain being pulled.
2010 P. O'Grady Devil rides Out xiii. 310 Vera, get out of that lav, your cup of tea's getting cold.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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LAV
LAV n. Medicine lymphadenopathy-associated virus (a former name for the virus now called HIV-3).
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the world > life > biology > organism > micro-organism > virus > [noun] > types of
latent virus1750
influenza virus1880
poxvirus1891
filter-passer1906
mosaic virus1914
bacteriophage1921
herpes virus1925
Rous sarcoma virus1925
Rous virus1925
papillomavirus1935
poliovirus1939
Semliki Forest virus1944
actinophage1947
mycophage1947
mengovirus1949
tumour virus1950
Zika1952
mycobacteriophage1953
Sindbis virus1953
myxovirus1954
echovirus1955
RNA virus1955
adenovirus1956
SV1956
arborvirus1957
enterovirus1957
foamy virus1957
respiratory syncytial virus1957
polyoma1958
parainfluenza1959
reovirus1959
arbovirus1960
cytomegalovirus1960
TMV1960
vacuolating agent or virus1960
Coxsackie virus1961
rhinovirus1961
RSV1961
papovavirus1962
paramyxovirus1962
picornavirus1962
mycophage1963
parvovirus1965
rhabdovirus1966
Ross River virus1966
coronavirus1968
EBV1968
Epstein–Barr virus1968
leukovirus1968
CMV1969
arenovirus1970
oncornavirus1970
togavirus1970
alphavirus1971
calicivirus1971
Dane particle1971
flavivirus1971
flavovirus1971
maedi1971
orbivirus1971
mycovirus1972
visna-maedi virus1972
flu virus1973
maedi-visna virus1973
corona1974
orthopoxvirus1974
rotavirus1974
whitepox1974
retravirus1975
Ebola virus1976
morbillivirus1976
retrovirus1976
Ebola1977
lentivirus1979
reassortant1979
HTLV1980
morbilli1981
filovirus1982
LAV1983
CV1985
HIV1986
HIV virus1987
C-192020
Covid2020
Covid-192020
CV-192020
the world > life > biology > organism > micro-organism > virus > [adjective] > types of
non-persistent1875
bacteriophagic1922
bacteriophagal1927
Shope1934
adenoviral1957
Sendai1958
EB1964
polioviral1965
Marburg1968
oncornaviral1972
xenotropic1973
retroviral1977
flaviviral1978
LAV1983
lentiviral1985
1983 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 26 Aug. 1010/1 Antibodies to LAV proteins have been demonstrated in all six patients.
1985 New Statesman 27 Sept. 14/1 HTLV-III, or ARV in the United States and LAV in France, is now known to have infected hundreds of thousands of people across the world, mostly within the last ten years.
1991 Lancet 9 Mar. 568/2 The LAV strain of HIV-1 grown in CEM cells.
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