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# urinal

«urinal» in Mova's school dictionary: **a kind of toilet on a wall, used by men and boys for…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a urinal, urinals)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A urinal is a kind of toilet on a wall, used by men and boys for weeing (urinating) while standing up, found in public and school toilets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/urinal/#m1)

2) A urinal can also be a bottle used in hospital for a patient to wee into. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/urinal/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life urinals are in boys' and men's toilets. In health and hygiene lessons children learn to flush and wash hands afterwards. Phrases: «use the urinal», «public urinals».

### examples

- The boys' toilets have three urinals and two cubicles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/urinal/#x1)
- Remember to wash your hands after using the urinal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/urinal/#x2)
- Some urinals flush automatically. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/urinal/#x3)
- In hospital, the nurse gave Grandad a urinal so he didn't have to get up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/urinal/#x4)
- Waterless urinals save water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/urinal/#x5)

### note

Countable: a urinal, urinals. Use «a», not «an», because it starts with a «you» sound: «a urinal». Said «you-RYE-nul» (UK) or «YOOR-in-ul» (US). Related: urine, urinate (formal words for wee).

### In the corpora

- [In 1917 Marcel Duchamp sent a shop-bought urinal, signed "R.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/18-modern-art-my-little-brother-could-do-that/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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