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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toilet/#m1)

2) A room with a toilet in it (UK: toilet, loo; US: bathroom, restroom; Australia: toilet, loo, dunny — informal). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toilet/#m2)

3) Old use: washing and dressing yourself. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toilet/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toilet/#x1)
- Please flush the toilet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toilet/#x2)
- May I go to the toilet, please? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toilet/#x3)
- We ran out of toilet paper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toilet/#x4)
- The public toilets are next to the park café. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toilet/#x5)
- Don't flush wipes down the toilet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toilet/#x6)
- Close the toilet lid before you flush. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toilet/#x7)
- In America people often say «restroom» instead of «toilet». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toilet/#x8)
- When he had finished his unusual toilet, Ototachibana brought him her mirror. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toilet/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/210-pigs-mud-snouts-and-brains/5/)
- [Some giant pitcher plants in Borneo are used as toilets by tree shrews, and the plant feeds on their droppings.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/254-plants-deeper-carnivorous-plants-that-count-slip-and-suck/11/)
- [Badgers are very clean: they drag in fresh grass and bracken for bedding and dig special toilet pits away from the sett.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/405-the-real-animals-of-the-wild-wood-badger-stoat-weasel-ferret-field-mice-and-winter-hedgehogs/9/)
- [Some cleaners must never meet: bleach poured together with an acid toilet cleaner gives off chlorine, a poisonous gas.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/25-cleaning-chemicals-safety/4/)
- [Almost every language has soft words for the toilet, because people feel shy about saying what they are going to do there.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/6-toilet-words/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «toilet» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/toilet/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.