toilet

«toilet» in Mova's school dictionary: A large bowl with a seat that you use to get rid of wee… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a toilet, toilets)

meaning for a pupil

1) A large bowl with a seat that you use to get rid of wee and poo, then flush with water. tree →

2) A room with a toilet in it (UK: toilet, loo; US: bathroom, restroom; Australia: toilet, loo, dunny — informal). tree →

3) Old use: washing and dressing yourself. tree →

sense in the lessons

In hygiene lessons: after using the toilet, flush, then wash your hands with soap for about 20 seconds to remove germs. In school manners: ask politely to go to the toilet; in the US say «May I use the restroom?». In safety: little children should not play near toilets; never flush toys or wipes. Phrases: go to the toilet, flush the toilet, toilet paper, toilet roll, public toilets, toilet seat.

examples

• Always wash your hands after using the toilet. tree →
• Please flush the toilet. tree →
• May I go to the toilet, please? tree →
• We ran out of toilet paper. tree →
• The public toilets are next to the park café. tree →
• Don't flush wipes down the toilet. tree →
• Close the toilet lid before you flush. tree →
• In America people often say «restroom» instead of «toilet». tree →
• When he had finished his unusual toilet, Ototachibana brought him her mirror. tree →

note

Countable: toilets. Polite words differ by country: toilet, loo (UK, informal), bathroom or restroom (US), washroom (Canada). Saying «toilet» is normal in the UK and Australia but can sound blunt in the US.

In the corpora

• Pigs are clean when they have space: they keep their toilet area well away from their beds.
• Some giant pitcher plants in Borneo are used as toilets by tree shrews, and the plant feeds on their droppings.
• Badgers are very clean: they drag in fresh grass and bracken for bedding and dig special toilet pits away from the sett.
• Some cleaners must never meet: bleach poured together with an acid toilet cleaner gives off chlorine, a poisonous gas.
• Almost every language has soft words for the toilet, because people feel shy about saying what they are going to do there.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «toilet» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.