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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.

toilet bowl.

a dressing room, especially one containing a bath.

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the act or process of dressing or grooming oneself, including bathing and arranging the hair: to make one's toilet; busy at her toilet.

toilet set.

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.

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Archaic. dressing table.

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go down/in the toilet, to become worthless or profitless; be doomed: The team's entire season went down the toilet.

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Also, toilette (for defs. 6, 8).

Origin:
1530–40; < French toilette small cloth, doily, dressing table, equivalent to toile toil² + -ette -et

Can be confused: toilet, toilette.

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Toilet bowl cleaners and deodorizers are substances used to clean and remove odors from toilets.

Well, you seem to have ignored my foot tapping here, have some toilet paper.

The ultimate dream is the toilet that checks for cancer.

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Toilet bowl cleaners and deodorizers are substances used to clean and remove odors from toilets.

Well, you seem to have ignored my foot tapping here, have some toilet paper.

The ultimate dream is the toilet that checks for cancer.

Commercial cleaning products come in a variety of scents, all calculated to convince you that your toilet is clean.

The bears, after all, never have to worry about whether or not to put toilet paper around the rim of the seat.

They are smuggled in thermoses and nylon stockings, stuffed into toilet paper tubes, hair curlers and hubcaps.

Set aside a corner of your yard as a toilet area, and train your pet to eliminate there and nowhere else.

Hardening toilets against a leave-behind bomb in a toilet isn't likely to do much against that kind of threat.

Manufacturers are responding to calls for greener toilet technologies.

There are fewer grants and more forms to fill out, and less toilet paper.

The toilet gives a chance to write about the vital subject of modern sewerage.

It might surprise you that out of all of the things in your house that use water, your toilet is by far the thirstiest.

Clearly, this object was a sensor designed to automatically flush the toilet once the end user zipped away.

Tossing them into a toilet bowl is a waste of water.

Toilet paper rolls come wrapped in paper, not plastic.

When you pull the chain on your cistern, you are literally flushing energy down the toilet.

Don't be alarmed by that toilet at the center of the stage.

Maybe something went terribly awry in their toilet training.

Back to our poker game: if everyone tries to lose, they can all flush poker chips down the toilet and all will lose.

It lived in warm lakes and ate fish with its toilet seat mouth.

He even resorts to a toilet plunger on his mouth to clean him self up.

People politely jostle for position, and give up toilet paper to others.

Sure, using gray water from the washing machine to flush your toilet is a great water saving idea.

Parents of babies and toddlers spend countless hours talking about sleeping issues and toilet time.

Households snuffed out lights and unplugged their heated toilet seats.

Chances are you have a toilet that is easily accessible and fully functional.

SciAm takes a look at new products, from environmentally friendly suede jackets to biodegradable toilet paper.

It's probably been years since you even thought of toilet papering someone's house.

It flushes with two litres of water, compared with the ten litres required by a standard cistern toilet.

Greywater is not to be confused with blackwater, which contains human or animal waste or fluids, such as from a toilet.

Toilet paper rolled, but not on a tube, will soon be accessible in some places.

And these can be tied to twisted toilet paper, to light a makeshift wick.

On one occasion, a member of its staff found a grenade in the office toilet.

In cities, clean tap water is usually used for drinking, gardening and even flushing the toilet.

If you really want to go green, go with a composting toilet.

It's the same model as the sub that was sunk because of a malfunctioning toilet.

He was amusing and friendly company, at a time when congeniality was as scarce in the east as toilet paper or matches.

Learn how to tweak your toilet and tap to save water.

We could put a serious dent into usage by adapting to use bidet's as opposed to toilet paper.

The broken toilet and two inches of biodiesel sloshing around the sleeping quarters probably didn't make things any easier.

For two years, he was kept in solitary confinement, in a cell that was little more than a toilet hole with a wooden board on top.

The plants are also found in ancient cesspits, and are thought to have been used as a primitive form of toilet paper.

It will house an additional toilet and exercise equipment for the crew of up to six.

It's better than that water stuff that comes in the toilet.

When water regularly overflows from your toilet, you want the toilet fixed, whether or not the water is doing harm.

Sprinkle baking soda inside the toilet bowl, and then add white vinegar.

The price of crude goes up, and with a small lag, everything else goes to the toilet.

Includes a relatively large loft area, gray water system, and a compost toilet.

One resident complained to the press that he could not use the toilet without power for water pumps.

There were special toilet tents and shower tents using water that had been heated over the cooking stoves.

Hansen moved the sewer vent and replaced the cracked toilet.

They offered people a commission for persuading their neighbours to buy a toilet.

We thought it was weird when people started training their pets to use the toilet.

For some people, mowing the lawn is right up there with cleaning the toilet.

He asks us not to flush the toilet at home unless extremely necessary.

Poisoning may occur when someone swallows toilet bowl cleaner or.

He himself chooses not to flush the toilet at his place.

But if a wise woman knows how to reward her mate, she may never have to use a toilet brush again.

New ads for moistened wipes try to persuade consumers that toilet paper alone, no matter how soft, is not enough.

Another option is a dual-flush toilet operated by two buttons:.

In my discipline, a non-confidential letter would be the equivalent of toilet paper.

In orbit, you can't rely on gravity to tug wastewater down the pipes of a toilet.

How flushing the toilet can lead to phosphorus for fertilizers.

How and when parents are toilet training their toddlers is being changed by the economy.

Bath areas have double sinks with a shower room on one side and a toilet room on the other.

Newer models add force to what little water they use, ensuring that the toilet is flushed properly.

The lowly toilet is key to what makes modern cities possible.

The call of nature can't be avoided, and with the water system out, so goes your toilet.

Children walk, talk and feed themselves before being toilet trained.

Someone has to call maintenance when the women's room toilet dies.

There are environmentally conscious dish and hand soaps, carpet shampoos and toilet cleaners, as well.

Hammond told her that she had even submitted to a test herself after a recent encounter with a toilet that seemed unclean.

It takes so little to take a great school and flush it down the toilet these days.

When someone neglects to brush their teeth, flush the toilet or wash their hands, a speaker can prompt them to do so.

Each chamber in the palace has its own function such as store room, sleeping chamber, or toilet.

Wind tunnels are expensive, but that doesn't mean flush your funding down the toilet on whim.

When compared with mobile devices, they found the average mobile phone contained more bacteria than a toilet seat.

In the mid-1970's he numbered squares of toilet paper in public restrooms, and checked them hourly to gauge how many were used.

Don't neglect the point where the toilet meets the floor- that's a key spot for smelly stuff.

His frequent toilet breaks allow me to gather my thoughts.

When you replace an old water-wasting toilet with a low-flow model, don't send the vintage porcelain to the landfill.

For example, the toilet is an integral part of the system.

No more squirming in a chilly hallway waiting for the shared toilet to be free.

Speaking of bathroom stopskeep a roll of toilet paper, some baby or flushable wet wipes, and a sealable trash bag in the car.

Its owners may have gone to the kitchen to make a cup of tea or to the toilet.

Also called a toilet claw gut: noun: part of the abdominal cavity including the digestive tract, stomach, and intestines.

In each and every case water flowing down the sink or the toilet was clockwise.

But it does say reviving a phone dropped in the toilet isn't out of the question.

One of the victims was found sitting on his closed toilet seat in that apartment.

It is derelict, with a toilet hanging precariously from the second floor.

Budget and mid-range hotels usually only provide soap and toilet paper.

Also yesterday, astronauts moved a second toilet into the station.

Accomodations included a single bunk and a pressure-operated toilet.

Clean commercial where he winked at a woman from within a toilet bowl.

There are still a lot of countryside people who go out in the open for their toilet.

Sprinkle the toilet bowl with baking soda, then add white vinegar and scrub it with a brush.

In case you were wondering, yes, the rook is a bunny on a toilet.

The job market for academics has been in the toilet for decades.

Unfortunately, the water flushed in a toilet upstream becomes the drinking water downstream.

But there was no drinking water, no food, and no toilet aboard the station.

What they do here is call out from work at the first sign of a snowflake and buy every single roll of toilet paper in the store.

Alka-seltzer does not a good toilet bowl cleaner make.

Finding your way to the toilet in the middle of the night is so much easier when your light source is hands-free.

Now you can sleep in a real bed, and maybe even use a real toilet.

By mixing toilet cleaner with pesticide, anyone can make a cloud of deadly hydrogen sulfide gas.

Which makes me feel better about flushing so much crap down the toilet instead of actually recycling it:.

Food and toilet icons, rather than printed signs, point the way to basic needs.

The toilet bowl is full of hypodermic needles, and you have to plunge your hand in and go fishing for the key.

Atkinson suggested using colored smoke or by flushing dye down a toilet with a discharge pipe that could be monitored elsewhere.

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World English Dictionary

toilet (ˈtɔɪlɪt)

—n
1.	another word for lavatory
2.	old-fashioned the act of dressing and preparing oneself: to make one's toilet
3.	old-fashioned a dressing table or the articles used when making one's toilet
4.	rare costume
5.	the cleansing of a wound, etc, after an operation or childbirth

[C16: from French toilette dress, from toile]

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Word Origin & History

toilet

1540, "cover or bag for clothes," from M.Fr. toilette "a cloth, bag for clothes," dim. of toile "cloth, net" (see toil (2)). Sense evolution is to "act or process of dressing" (1681); then "a dressing room" (1819), especially one with a lavatory attached; then "lavatory or

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porcelain plumbing fixture" (1895), an Amer.Eng. euphemistic use. Toilet paper is attested from 1884. Toilet training is recorded from 1940.

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