Definition of toilet in English:

toilet

nounPlural toilets ˈtɔɪlɪtˈtɔɪlɪt

1A fixed receptacle into which a person may urinate or defecate, typically consisting of a large bowl connected to a system for flushing away the waste into a sewer.
Liz heard the toilet flush
he got up to go to the toilet
as modifier a toilet seat
Example sentencesExamples
- I think I almost fell asleep again because my brother got tired of waiting and flushed the downstairs toilet.
- I compost all these and have a compost toilet.
- When they are flushed down the toilet, they dissolve into microscopic particles.
- Toilets overflow, pipes leak and refuse piles up in the stairwells.
- Why have the toilet in the bathroom when you've got masses of space?
- They should not be flushed down the toilet or sink.
- He had the dimensions of the room, the door, even the toilet, all memorized in his head.
- If we ever had any moral authority, it has been officially flushed down the toilet.
- You probably wash up your dirty dishes immediately after eating, and stick bleach down the toilet with every tenth flush.
- Unless hard digging provides real verified facts, the anonymous stuff should be flushed down the toilet.
- Apparently Roly stopped taking his drugs, flushed them down the toilet, and begged Alex to help him get out of that place.
- Seat covers have been available for decades, and it used correctly, most seat covers will flush down the toilet without the user touching them.
- The small building also boasts composting toilets, grey water recycling, and the use of natural lighting.
- Professionalism and ethics are sometimes flushed down the toilet.
- I wanted to use a composting toilet, but county wastewater officials weren't receptive to the idea.
- He said drain blockages often occurred when nappies, air fresheners and sanitary towels are flushed down the toilet.
- Medicines should never be disposed of with other household waste, for safety reasons, or flushed down the toilet, for environmental reasons.
- Most get flushed down the toilet, and eventually end up in the oceans.
- A third of all household water is flushed down the toilet, so control the amount of water you use by putting a plastic bottle or ‘hippo’ in your cistern.
- In many states, using a composting toilet allows a property owner to install a smaller septic system.
Synonyms
lavatory, WC, water closet, (public) convenience, facilities, urinal, privy, latrine, outhouse, earth closet, jakes
British cloakroom, the Ladies, the Gents, powder room
North American restroom, bathroom, washroom, men's room, ladies' room, comfort station
French pissoir
informal little girls' room, little boys' room, smallest room
British informal loo, bog, khazi, lav, throne, thunderbox, cottage
Northern English informal netty
North American informal can, john, honey bucket, tea room
Australian/New Zealand informal dunny, little house, dyke
vulgar slang pisser, crapper, shithouse, shitter
Nautical head
archaic closet, garderobe, necessary house
1. 1.1 A room, building, or cubicle containing a toilet or toilets.
  a public toilet
  as modifier someone pushed at the toilet door
  Example sentencesExamples
  There is also an understairs guest toilet on the ground floor.
  He said he was not inclined to provide a portable toilet which could be vulnerable to vandalism.
  Milnthorpe bus users may have to endure more hanging about in the rain as the town's parish council raided funds earmarked for building bus shelters to save a public toilet.
  It's about as subtle as not having women's toilets in the engineering building.
  Both the breakfast room and the kitchen have recessed lighting, while a guest toilet completes the accommodation at this level.
  The accommodation at this level is completed by a small understairs guest toilet.
  In the toilets, the one cubicle with a working light had a broken lock.
  The public toilets have been cleaned up and three chemical toilets have been placed in the park.
  The guest bedroom is on the ground floor and is en suite and there is a separate downstairs toilet nearby.
  Although work is on a public floor of the building, the toilets are locked, secured by carefully guarded keys.
  Fire broke out in the Carlton Street building's toilets after a match was dropped into a bin full of waste paper.
  Upstairs there are five bedrooms and a family bathroom, and a downstairs toilet completes the accommodation.
  If councillors agree, the structure - including a toilet and changing rooms - will be built next to the organisation's bowling green.
  There are no science, cookery or woodwork rooms and no staff toilets.
  Toilets on the first floor are only available to those attending meetings.
  Matthew later confronts Louise and locks her in the ladies' toilets.
  Today his firm, which puts poster ads in pub toilets, employs five people.
  The toilets are upstairs, but there is a communal disabled toilet on our floor.
  You'd toured the building, revisited the toilets, searched every office you'd been in during the day.
  Marketing is described as weak and many buildings lacked public toilets, baby changing facilities and refreshment areas.
2in singular The process of washing oneself, dressing, and attending to one's appearance.
her toilet completed, she finally went back downstairs
Example sentencesExamples
- She quickly changed into an older dress and completed a brief toilet.
Synonyms
washing, bathing, showering
wash, bath, shower
grooming, dressing, make-up
formal or humorous ablutions
dated toilette
rare lavation, lustration
1. 2.1as modifier Denoting articles used in the process of washing, dressing, and attending to one's appearance.
  a bathroom cabinet stocked with toilet articles
  Example sentencesExamples
  The general stock consists of patent medicines of all kinds, proprietary goods, toilet requisites, perfumes, smelling and perfume bottles, and a host of other useful articles.
  Clearly she will have some luggage (at least a change of clothes and toilet articles) with her, if no maid.
  There was a camp canteen where the prisoners could buy cigarettes, toilet articles or canned food.
  When I had arranged these, with my hairbrush and other toilet articles on the dressing table, the place began to look quite homelike.
  The chaplain's office became the receiving and distribution point for clothing and toilet articles.
2. 2.2 The cleansing of part of a person's body as a medical procedure.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Respiratory toilet is encouraged hourly throughout the postoperative period with the aid of an incentive spirometer.
  The loss of ciliated epithelium emphasizes the need for hydration to improve the pulmonary toilet.
  Peritoneal toilet functions as a surgical adjunct to controlling the initial, proximate source of peritoneal infection
  PDT treatments were applied to the left mainstem lesion along with debridement and bronchoscopic toilet.

verbtoileting, toilets, toileted ˈtɔɪlɪtˈtɔɪlɪt

[with object]usually as noun toileting

1Assist or supervise (someone, especially an infant or invalid) in using a toilet.
Example sentencesExamples
- I wouldn't mind toileting a patient if it needed to be done.
- She can't toilet herself - she's timed rather than trained.
- She wanted to teach him how to walk, talk, and toilet himself.
- There is little dignity in being washed, fed, or swung up in a hoist to be toileted.
- If asleep, the patient was not toileted or changed.
1. 1.1no object Use a toilet.
  sufferers may need help with dressing, bathing, and toileting
  Example sentencesExamples
  Having been trained by the Kennedy's dog trainers, the black and white puppy reportedly made no toileting errors and did not gnaw on the furniture.
  When you complain about your dog's poor toileting habits, you are basically admitting that you have failed to train him adequately.
  I worked on the general medical unit, where about half of 17 men and women were bed-ridden and all but a few needed help with getting in and out of bed, bathing, dressing and toileting.
  At school [O] needs some reminding and encouragement with his dressing, toileting and eating skills.
  When we reprimand a dog for toileting indoors we think we are teaching him not to go indoors, but to go in the garden.
  Your loved one needs more and more help with everyday tasks such as eating, bathing and toileting.
  They may get lost in their own homes, need help dressing, bathing, and toileting, and fail to remember major parts of their past or understand simple gestures and commands.
  Toileting problems were slightly more common in ferals.
  It's become increasingly difficult in recent years to have a proper toileting experience, clean and hygienic, even if you find a toilet.
  When this happens the patient will need to re-learn toileting skills, bearing in mind also that there are a number of other reasons why these skills may need to be re-learned.
  Bunk beds again, but private washing and toileting facilities offered more privacy.

Phrases

go down the toilet

informal Be completely lost or wasted; fail utterly.
they didn't want to see their investment go down the toilet
Example sentencesExamples
- Alas, the lead singer's attempts to persuade him to remove his shirt for the ladies went down the toilet.
- His sweetheart spent the rest of the night retching into the loo and the relationship went down the toilet, too.
- They didn't want to see their investment go down the toilet.
- A lot of money going down the toilet, you could say.
- It could easily all go down the toilet tomorrow.
- Frankly, our judgment calls seem to be going down the toilet.
- They are not saying that your investments are gone down the toilet.
- I was involved in a technical support problem that's clearly going to go down the toilet.
- Year-on-year growth went down the toilet, dropping 24.4 per cent.
- There's your last vestige of freedom going down the toilet.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from French toilette 'cloth, wrapper', diminutive of toile (see toile). The word originally denoted a cloth used as a wrapper for clothes; then (in the 17th century) a cloth cover for a dressing table, the articles used in dressing, and the process of dressing, later also of washing oneself (sense 2 of the noun). In the 19th century the word came to denote a dressing room, and, in the US, one with washing facilities; hence, a lavatory (early 20th century).

A toilet was originally a cloth used as a wrapper for clothes or a covering for a dressing table, from French toilette ‘cloth, wrapper’. From the first meaning developed a group of senses relating to dressing and washing, including ‘the process of washing, dressing, and attending to your appearance’, now rather dated, which is also expressed in the French form toilette. In the 18th century it was fashionable for a lady to receive visitors during the later stages of her ‘toilet’, which led to uses such as this by the dramatist Sir Richard Steele in 1703: ‘You shall introduce him to Mrs Clerimont's Toilet.’ People started using the word for a dressing room, and, in the USA, one with washing facilities. It was not until the early 20th century that it became a particular item of plumbing, namely a lavatory. See also loo. The French word was a diminutive of toile, used for a type of dress fabric since the late 18th century, and of toils (mid 16th century) for entrapment, a figurative use of an earlier sense, ‘net’. Toil in the sense of hard work in Middle English has had a bad reputation from the start, as it was originally used to mean ‘strife, quarrel, battle’, and from then came to be used for something unpleasantly hard. It comes via French from Latin tudiculare ‘stir about’.

Definition of toilet in US English:

toilet

nounˈtɔɪlɪtˈtoilit

1A fixed receptacle into which a person may urinate or defecate, typically consisting of a large bowl connected to a system for flushing away the waste into a sewer or septic tank.
Liz heard the toilet flush
figurative my tenure was down the toilet
Example sentencesExamples
- The small building also boasts composting toilets, grey water recycling, and the use of natural lighting.
- You probably wash up your dirty dishes immediately after eating, and stick bleach down the toilet with every tenth flush.
- Professionalism and ethics are sometimes flushed down the toilet.
- Toilets overflow, pipes leak and refuse piles up in the stairwells.
- He said drain blockages often occurred when nappies, air fresheners and sanitary towels are flushed down the toilet.
- A third of all household water is flushed down the toilet, so control the amount of water you use by putting a plastic bottle or ‘hippo’ in your cistern.
- Unless hard digging provides real verified facts, the anonymous stuff should be flushed down the toilet.
- Apparently Roly stopped taking his drugs, flushed them down the toilet, and begged Alex to help him get out of that place.
- He had the dimensions of the room, the door, even the toilet, all memorized in his head.
- In many states, using a composting toilet allows a property owner to install a smaller septic system.
- I think I almost fell asleep again because my brother got tired of waiting and flushed the downstairs toilet.
- I compost all these and have a compost toilet.
- I wanted to use a composting toilet, but county wastewater officials weren't receptive to the idea.
- Medicines should never be disposed of with other household waste, for safety reasons, or flushed down the toilet, for environmental reasons.
- When they are flushed down the toilet, they dissolve into microscopic particles.
- If we ever had any moral authority, it has been officially flushed down the toilet.
- Seat covers have been available for decades, and it used correctly, most seat covers will flush down the toilet without the user touching them.
- They should not be flushed down the toilet or sink.
- Why have the toilet in the bathroom when you've got masses of space?
- Most get flushed down the toilet, and eventually end up in the oceans.
Synonyms
lavatory, wc, water closet, convenience, public convenience, facilities, urinal, privy, latrine, outhouse, earth closet, jakes
1. 1.1 A room, building, or cubicle containing one or more of these.
  Example sentencesExamples
  In the toilets, the one cubicle with a working light had a broken lock.
  It's about as subtle as not having women's toilets in the engineering building.
  Toilets on the first floor are only available to those attending meetings.
  The public toilets have been cleaned up and three chemical toilets have been placed in the park.
  The accommodation at this level is completed by a small understairs guest toilet.
  Marketing is described as weak and many buildings lacked public toilets, baby changing facilities and refreshment areas.
  Fire broke out in the Carlton Street building's toilets after a match was dropped into a bin full of waste paper.
  There is also an understairs guest toilet on the ground floor.
  You'd toured the building, revisited the toilets, searched every office you'd been in during the day.
  There are no science, cookery or woodwork rooms and no staff toilets.
  Milnthorpe bus users may have to endure more hanging about in the rain as the town's parish council raided funds earmarked for building bus shelters to save a public toilet.
  Although work is on a public floor of the building, the toilets are locked, secured by carefully guarded keys.
  Today his firm, which puts poster ads in pub toilets, employs five people.
  The guest bedroom is on the ground floor and is en suite and there is a separate downstairs toilet nearby.
  Matthew later confronts Louise and locks her in the ladies' toilets.
  The toilets are upstairs, but there is a communal disabled toilet on our floor.
  He said he was not inclined to provide a portable toilet which could be vulnerable to vandalism.
  Both the breakfast room and the kitchen have recessed lighting, while a guest toilet completes the accommodation at this level.
  If councillors agree, the structure - including a toilet and changing rooms - will be built next to the organisation's bowling green.
  Upstairs there are five bedrooms and a family bathroom, and a downstairs toilet completes the accommodation.
2in singular The process of washing oneself, dressing, and attending to one's appearance.
her toilet completed, she finally went back downstairs
Example sentencesExamples
- She quickly changed into an older dress and completed a brief toilet.
Synonyms
washing, bathing, showering
1. 2.1as modifier Denoting articles used in the process of washing and dressing oneself.
  a bathroom cabinet stocked with toilet articles
  Example sentencesExamples
  Clearly she will have some luggage (at least a change of clothes and toilet articles) with her, if no maid.
  The chaplain's office became the receiving and distribution point for clothing and toilet articles.
  The general stock consists of patent medicines of all kinds, proprietary goods, toilet requisites, perfumes, smelling and perfume bottles, and a host of other useful articles.
  When I had arranged these, with my hairbrush and other toilet articles on the dressing table, the place began to look quite homelike.
  There was a camp canteen where the prisoners could buy cigarettes, toilet articles or canned food.
2. 2.2 The cleansing of part of a person's body as a medical procedure.
  Example sentencesExamples
  PDT treatments were applied to the left mainstem lesion along with debridement and bronchoscopic toilet.
  Peritoneal toilet functions as a surgical adjunct to controlling the initial, proximate source of peritoneal infection
  Respiratory toilet is encouraged hourly throughout the postoperative period with the aid of an incentive spirometer.
  The loss of ciliated epithelium emphasizes the need for hydration to improve the pulmonary toilet.

verbˈtɔɪlɪtˈtoilit

[with object]usually as noun toileting

Assist or supervise (someone, especially an infant or invalid) in using a toilet.
Example sentencesExamples
- She can't toilet herself - she's timed rather than trained.
- If asleep, the patient was not toileted or changed.
- She wanted to teach him how to walk, talk, and toilet himself.
- I wouldn't mind toileting a patient if it needed to be done.
- There is little dignity in being washed, fed, or swung up in a hoist to be toileted.

Phrases

go down the toilet

informal Be completely lost or wasted; fail utterly.
they didn't want to see their investment go down the toilet
Example sentencesExamples
- They didn't want to see their investment go down the toilet.
- It could easily all go down the toilet tomorrow.
- Year-on-year growth went down the toilet, dropping 24.4 per cent.
- They are not saying that your investments are gone down the toilet.
- His sweetheart spent the rest of the night retching into the loo and the relationship went down the toilet, too.
- I was involved in a technical support problem that's clearly going to go down the toilet.
- Frankly, our judgment calls seem to be going down the toilet.
- Alas, the lead singer's attempts to persuade him to remove his shirt for the ladies went down the toilet.
- A lot of money going down the toilet, you could say.
- There's your last vestige of freedom going down the toilet.

Origin

Mid 16th century: from French toilette ‘cloth, wrapper’, diminutive of toile (see toile). The word originally denoted a cloth used as a wrapper for clothes; then (in the 17th century) a cloth cover for a dressing table, the articles used in dressing, and the process of dressing, later also of washing oneself ( toilet (sense 2 of the noun)). In the 19th century the word came to denote a dressing room, and, in the US, one with washing facilities; hence, a lavatory (early 20th century).

单词	toilet
释义	Definition of toilet in English: toilet nounPlural toilets ˈtɔɪlɪtˈtɔɪlɪt 1A fixed receptacle into which a person may urinate or defecate, typically consisting of a large bowl connected to a system for flushing away the waste into a sewer. Liz heard the toilet flush he got up to go to the toilet as modifier a toilet seat Example sentencesExamples I think I almost fell asleep again because my brother got tired of waiting and flushed the downstairs toilet. I compost all these and have a compost toilet. When they are flushed down the toilet, they dissolve into microscopic particles. Toilets overflow, pipes leak and refuse piles up in the stairwells. Why have the toilet in the bathroom when you've got masses of space? They should not be flushed down the toilet or sink. He had the dimensions of the room, the door, even the toilet, all memorized in his head. If we ever had any moral authority, it has been officially flushed down the toilet. You probably wash up your dirty dishes immediately after eating, and stick bleach down the toilet with every tenth flush. Unless hard digging provides real verified facts, the anonymous stuff should be flushed down the toilet. Apparently Roly stopped taking his drugs, flushed them down the toilet, and begged Alex to help him get out of that place. Seat covers have been available for decades, and it used correctly, most seat covers will flush down the toilet without the user touching them. The small building also boasts composting toilets, grey water recycling, and the use of natural lighting. Professionalism and ethics are sometimes flushed down the toilet. I wanted to use a composting toilet, but county wastewater officials weren't receptive to the idea. He said drain blockages often occurred when nappies, air fresheners and sanitary towels are flushed down the toilet. Medicines should never be disposed of with other household waste, for safety reasons, or flushed down the toilet, for environmental reasons. Most get flushed down the toilet, and eventually end up in the oceans. A third of all household water is flushed down the toilet, so control the amount of water you use by putting a plastic bottle or ‘hippo’ in your cistern. In many states, using a composting toilet allows a property owner to install a smaller septic system. Synonyms lavatory, WC, water closet, (public) convenience, facilities, urinal, privy, latrine, outhouse, earth closet, jakes British cloakroom, the Ladies, the Gents, powder room North American restroom, bathroom, washroom, men's room, ladies' room, comfort station French pissoir informal little girls' room, little boys' room, smallest room British informal loo, bog, khazi, lav, throne, thunderbox, cottage Northern English informal netty North American informal can, john, honey bucket, tea room Australian/New Zealand informal dunny, little house, dyke vulgar slang pisser, crapper, shithouse, shitter Nautical head archaic closet, garderobe, necessary house 1.1 A room, building, or cubicle containing a toilet or toilets. a public toilet as modifier someone pushed at the toilet door Example sentencesExamples There is also an understairs guest toilet on the ground floor. He said he was not inclined to provide a portable toilet which could be vulnerable to vandalism. Milnthorpe bus users may have to endure more hanging about in the rain as the town's parish council raided funds earmarked for building bus shelters to save a public toilet. It's about as subtle as not having women's toilets in the engineering building. Both the breakfast room and the kitchen have recessed lighting, while a guest toilet completes the accommodation at this level. The accommodation at this level is completed by a small understairs guest toilet. In the toilets, the one cubicle with a working light had a broken lock. The public toilets have been cleaned up and three chemical toilets have been placed in the park. The guest bedroom is on the ground floor and is en suite and there is a separate downstairs toilet nearby. Although work is on a public floor of the building, the toilets are locked, secured by carefully guarded keys. Fire broke out in the Carlton Street building's toilets after a match was dropped into a bin full of waste paper. Upstairs there are five bedrooms and a family bathroom, and a downstairs toilet completes the accommodation. If councillors agree, the structure - including a toilet and changing rooms - will be built next to the organisation's bowling green. There are no science, cookery or woodwork rooms and no staff toilets. Toilets on the first floor are only available to those attending meetings. Matthew later confronts Louise and locks her in the ladies' toilets. Today his firm, which puts poster ads in pub toilets, employs five people. The toilets are upstairs, but there is a communal disabled toilet on our floor. You'd toured the building, revisited the toilets, searched every office you'd been in during the day. Marketing is described as weak and many buildings lacked public toilets, baby changing facilities and refreshment areas. 2in singular The process of washing oneself, dressing, and attending to one's appearance. her toilet completed, she finally went back downstairs Example sentencesExamples She quickly changed into an older dress and completed a brief toilet. Synonyms washing, bathing, showering wash, bath, shower grooming, dressing, make-up formal or humorous ablutions dated toilette rare lavation, lustration 2.1as modifier Denoting articles used in the process of washing, dressing, and attending to one's appearance. a bathroom cabinet stocked with toilet articles Example sentencesExamples The general stock consists of patent medicines of all kinds, proprietary goods, toilet requisites, perfumes, smelling and perfume bottles, and a host of other useful articles. Clearly she will have some luggage (at least a change of clothes and toilet articles) with her, if no maid. There was a camp canteen where the prisoners could buy cigarettes, toilet articles or canned food. When I had arranged these, with my hairbrush and other toilet articles on the dressing table, the place began to look quite homelike. The chaplain's office became the receiving and distribution point for clothing and toilet articles. 2.2 The cleansing of part of a person's body as a medical procedure. Example sentencesExamples Respiratory toilet is encouraged hourly throughout the postoperative period with the aid of an incentive spirometer. The loss of ciliated epithelium emphasizes the need for hydration to improve the pulmonary toilet. Peritoneal toilet functions as a surgical adjunct to controlling the initial, proximate source of peritoneal infection PDT treatments were applied to the left mainstem lesion along with debridement and bronchoscopic toilet. verbtoileting, toilets, toileted ˈtɔɪlɪtˈtɔɪlɪt [with object]usually as noun toileting 1Assist or supervise (someone, especially an infant or invalid) in using a toilet. Example sentencesExamples I wouldn't mind toileting a patient if it needed to be done. She can't toilet herself - she's timed rather than trained. She wanted to teach him how to walk, talk, and toilet himself. There is little dignity in being washed, fed, or swung up in a hoist to be toileted. If asleep, the patient was not toileted or changed. 1.1no object Use a toilet. sufferers may need help with dressing, bathing, and toileting Example sentencesExamples Having been trained by the Kennedy's dog trainers, the black and white puppy reportedly made no toileting errors and did not gnaw on the furniture. When you complain about your dog's poor toileting habits, you are basically admitting that you have failed to train him adequately. I worked on the general medical unit, where about half of 17 men and women were bed-ridden and all but a few needed help with getting in and out of bed, bathing, dressing and toileting. At school [O] needs some reminding and encouragement with his dressing, toileting and eating skills. When we reprimand a dog for toileting indoors we think we are teaching him not to go indoors, but to go in the garden. Your loved one needs more and more help with everyday tasks such as eating, bathing and toileting. They may get lost in their own homes, need help dressing, bathing, and toileting, and fail to remember major parts of their past or understand simple gestures and commands. Toileting problems were slightly more common in ferals. It's become increasingly difficult in recent years to have a proper toileting experience, clean and hygienic, even if you find a toilet. When this happens the patient will need to re-learn toileting skills, bearing in mind also that there are a number of other reasons why these skills may need to be re-learned. Bunk beds again, but private washing and toileting facilities offered more privacy. Phrases go down the toilet informal Be completely lost or wasted; fail utterly. they didn't want to see their investment go down the toilet Example sentencesExamples Alas, the lead singer's attempts to persuade him to remove his shirt for the ladies went down the toilet. His sweetheart spent the rest of the night retching into the loo and the relationship went down the toilet, too. They didn't want to see their investment go down the toilet. A lot of money going down the toilet, you could say. It could easily all go down the toilet tomorrow. Frankly, our judgment calls seem to be going down the toilet. They are not saying that your investments are gone down the toilet. I was involved in a technical support problem that's clearly going to go down the toilet. Year-on-year growth went down the toilet, dropping 24.4 per cent. There's your last vestige of freedom going down the toilet. Origin Mid 16th century: from French toilette 'cloth, wrapper', diminutive of toile (see toile). The word originally denoted a cloth used as a wrapper for clothes; then (in the 17th century) a cloth cover for a dressing table, the articles used in dressing, and the process of dressing, later also of washing oneself (sense 2 of the noun). In the 19th century the word came to denote a dressing room, and, in the US, one with washing facilities; hence, a lavatory (early 20th century). A toilet was originally a cloth used as a wrapper for clothes or a covering for a dressing table, from French toilette ‘cloth, wrapper’. From the first meaning developed a group of senses relating to dressing and washing, including ‘the process of washing, dressing, and attending to your appearance’, now rather dated, which is also expressed in the French form toilette. In the 18th century it was fashionable for a lady to receive visitors during the later stages of her ‘toilet’, which led to uses such as this by the dramatist Sir Richard Steele in 1703: ‘You shall introduce him to Mrs Clerimont's Toilet.’ People started using the word for a dressing room, and, in the USA, one with washing facilities. It was not until the early 20th century that it became a particular item of plumbing, namely a lavatory. See also loo. The French word was a diminutive of toile, used for a type of dress fabric since the late 18th century, and of toils (mid 16th century) for entrapment, a figurative use of an earlier sense, ‘net’. Toil in the sense of hard work in Middle English has had a bad reputation from the start, as it was originally used to mean ‘strife, quarrel, battle’, and from then came to be used for something unpleasantly hard. It comes via French from Latin tudiculare ‘stir about’. noun.1 phr. Definition of toilet in US English: toilet nounˈtɔɪlɪtˈtoilit 1A fixed receptacle into which a person may urinate or defecate, typically consisting of a large bowl connected to a system for flushing away the waste into a sewer or septic tank. Liz heard the toilet flush figurative my tenure was down the toilet Example sentencesExamples The small building also boasts composting toilets, grey water recycling, and the use of natural lighting. You probably wash up your dirty dishes immediately after eating, and stick bleach down the toilet with every tenth flush. Professionalism and ethics are sometimes flushed down the toilet. Toilets overflow, pipes leak and refuse piles up in the stairwells. He said drain blockages often occurred when nappies, air fresheners and sanitary towels are flushed down the toilet. A third of all household water is flushed down the toilet, so control the amount of water you use by putting a plastic bottle or ‘hippo’ in your cistern. Unless hard digging provides real verified facts, the anonymous stuff should be flushed down the toilet. Apparently Roly stopped taking his drugs, flushed them down the toilet, and begged Alex to help him get out of that place. He had the dimensions of the room, the door, even the toilet, all memorized in his head. In many states, using a composting toilet allows a property owner to install a smaller septic system. I think I almost fell asleep again because my brother got tired of waiting and flushed the downstairs toilet. I compost all these and have a compost toilet. I wanted to use a composting toilet, but county wastewater officials weren't receptive to the idea. Medicines should never be disposed of with other household waste, for safety reasons, or flushed down the toilet, for environmental reasons. When they are flushed down the toilet, they dissolve into microscopic particles. If we ever had any moral authority, it has been officially flushed down the toilet. Seat covers have been available for decades, and it used correctly, most seat covers will flush down the toilet without the user touching them. They should not be flushed down the toilet or sink. Why have the toilet in the bathroom when you've got masses of space? Most get flushed down the toilet, and eventually end up in the oceans. Synonyms lavatory, wc, water closet, convenience, public convenience, facilities, urinal, privy, latrine, outhouse, earth closet, jakes 1.1 A room, building, or cubicle containing one or more of these. Example sentencesExamples In the toilets, the one cubicle with a working light had a broken lock. It's about as subtle as not having women's toilets in the engineering building. Toilets on the first floor are only available to those attending meetings. The public toilets have been cleaned up and three chemical toilets have been placed in the park. The accommodation at this level is completed by a small understairs guest toilet. Marketing is described as weak and many buildings lacked public toilets, baby changing facilities and refreshment areas. Fire broke out in the Carlton Street building's toilets after a match was dropped into a bin full of waste paper. There is also an understairs guest toilet on the ground floor. You'd toured the building, revisited the toilets, searched every office you'd been in during the day. There are no science, cookery or woodwork rooms and no staff toilets. Milnthorpe bus users may have to endure more hanging about in the rain as the town's parish council raided funds earmarked for building bus shelters to save a public toilet. Although work is on a public floor of the building, the toilets are locked, secured by carefully guarded keys. Today his firm, which puts poster ads in pub toilets, employs five people. The guest bedroom is on the ground floor and is en suite and there is a separate downstairs toilet nearby. Matthew later confronts Louise and locks her in the ladies' toilets. The toilets are upstairs, but there is a communal disabled toilet on our floor. He said he was not inclined to provide a portable toilet which could be vulnerable to vandalism. Both the breakfast room and the kitchen have recessed lighting, while a guest toilet completes the accommodation at this level. If councillors agree, the structure - including a toilet and changing rooms - will be built next to the organisation's bowling green. Upstairs there are five bedrooms and a family bathroom, and a downstairs toilet completes the accommodation. 2in singular The process of washing oneself, dressing, and attending to one's appearance. her toilet completed, she finally went back downstairs Example sentencesExamples She quickly changed into an older dress and completed a brief toilet. Synonyms washing, bathing, showering 2.1as modifier Denoting articles used in the process of washing and dressing oneself. a bathroom cabinet stocked with toilet articles Example sentencesExamples Clearly she will have some luggage (at least a change of clothes and toilet articles) with her, if no maid. The chaplain's office became the receiving and distribution point for clothing and toilet articles. The general stock consists of patent medicines of all kinds, proprietary goods, toilet requisites, perfumes, smelling and perfume bottles, and a host of other useful articles. When I had arranged these, with my hairbrush and other toilet articles on the dressing table, the place began to look quite homelike. There was a camp canteen where the prisoners could buy cigarettes, toilet articles or canned food. 2.2 The cleansing of part of a person's body as a medical procedure. Example sentencesExamples PDT treatments were applied to the left mainstem lesion along with debridement and bronchoscopic toilet. Peritoneal toilet functions as a surgical adjunct to controlling the initial, proximate source of peritoneal infection Respiratory toilet is encouraged hourly throughout the postoperative period with the aid of an incentive spirometer. The loss of ciliated epithelium emphasizes the need for hydration to improve the pulmonary toilet. verbˈtɔɪlɪtˈtoilit [with object]usually as noun toileting Assist or supervise (someone, especially an infant or invalid) in using a toilet. Example sentencesExamples She can't toilet herself - she's timed rather than trained. If asleep, the patient was not toileted or changed. She wanted to teach him how to walk, talk, and toilet himself. I wouldn't mind toileting a patient if it needed to be done. There is little dignity in being washed, fed, or swung up in a hoist to be toileted. Phrases go down the toilet informal Be completely lost or wasted; fail utterly. they didn't want to see their investment go down the toilet Example sentencesExamples They didn't want to see their investment go down the toilet. It could easily all go down the toilet tomorrow. Year-on-year growth went down the toilet, dropping 24.4 per cent. They are not saying that your investments are gone down the toilet. His sweetheart spent the rest of the night retching into the loo and the relationship went down the toilet, too. I was involved in a technical support problem that's clearly going to go down the toilet. Frankly, our judgment calls seem to be going down the toilet. Alas, the lead singer's attempts to persuade him to remove his shirt for the ladies went down the toilet. A lot of money going down the toilet, you could say. There's your last vestige of freedom going down the toilet. Origin Mid 16th century: from French toilette ‘cloth, wrapper’, diminutive of toile (see toile). The word originally denoted a cloth used as a wrapper for clothes; then (in the 17th century) a cloth cover for a dressing table, the articles used in dressing, and the process of dressing, later also of washing oneself ( toilet (sense 2 of the noun)). In the 19th century the word came to denote a dressing room, and, in the US, one with washing facilities; hence, a lavatory (early 20th century). noun.1 phr.
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