toilet
see also BATHROOM, BODY
- a large bowl that you use when you want to get rid of waste from your body: toilet, (BrE informal) loo, (more formal) lavatory
- a room that contains a toilet: toilet, (BrE informal) loo, (formal) lavatory (AmE bathroom)
Where's the toilet, please? ◎ I'm going to the loo.
- a toilet in a public place: public toilet, (formal) public convenience
- usually people will say (for men) the Gents, (for women) the Ladies, (AmE) the restroom, (AmE) the washroom
Is there a public toilet near here? ◎ Can you tell me where the Ladies is?
※ using the toilet
- to get rid of waste from the body: go* to the toilet, (informal) go* to the loo
- the waste water that you pass out of your body when you go to the toilet: urine, (informal) pee
- to get rid of urine from the body: (informal) pee, (informal) have a pee, (formal) urinate
- the part of a toilet that you sit on: (toilet) seat
- the tissue paper that you use to clean yourself in a toilet: toilet paper (noun U)
- a roll of toilet-paper: toilet roll
- when you pull the handle on a toilet to clean it, you flush the toilet
- when water flows to clean the toilet, the toilet flushes
What's wrong with the toilet - it isn't flushing properly.
- a bowl that children sit on when they are too small to use a toilet: potty
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- a large underground pipe that carries away the waste from toilets: sewer; the waste from toilets: sewage (noun U)
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