toilet

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A room, enclosed area or single-purpose building containing a fixture or fixtures used for urination and defecation; a bathroom or water closet. Australia,Hong-Kong,India,UK
    — Sorry, I was in the toilet.
  2. A room, enclosed area or single-purpose building containing a fixture or fixtures used for urination and defecation; a bathroom or water closet.; A small secondary lavatory having a fixture used for urination and defecation and sink but no bathtub or shower. Australia,Hong-Kong,India,New-Zealand,UK
  3. A fixture used for urination and defecation, particularly one with a large bowl and ring-shaped seat which uses water to flush the waste material into a septic tank or sewer system.
    — My toilet got clogged. Now the bathroom's flooded.
  4. A very shabby or dirty place. figuratively
    — Look around you. It's a toilet.
  5. A covering of linen, silk, or tapestry, spread over a dressing table in a chamber or dressing room. obsolete
  6. The table covered by such a cloth; a dressing table. obsolete
    — And now, unveil’d, the toilet stands display’d, / Each silver vase in mystic order laid.
  7. Personal grooming; the process of washing, dressing and arranging the hair. archaic,historical
    — Against that short evening her toilet was consulted the whole day […].
  8. One's style of dressing: dress, outfit. archaic
    — It is so painful in you, Celia, that you will look at human beings as if they were merely animals with a toilette, and never see the great soul in a man's face.
  9. A dressing room. archaic
  10. A chamber pot. obsolete
  11. A woman. derogatory
    — I’m not interested in toilets and I don’t think a gf [Girlfriend] is needed to live a fulfilling life.
动词 v.
  1. To dress and groom oneself. dated
  2. To use (urinate or defecate in) a toilet.
    — We use imitation. We take a doll, a doll that can wet, and make sure it has pants on it. We use the principle that a very effective way of learning is by teaching. Se we have him teach the doll how to toilet properly.
  3. To assist another (a child, etc.) in using a toilet.

词形变化

toilets plural toilette alternative toilets present,singular,third-person toileting participle,present toiletting participle,present,rare toileted participle,past toileted past toiletted participle,past,rare toiletted past,rare toilette alternative

词汇关系

词源

词源 1
From Middle French toilette, diminutive of toile (“cloth”), from their use to protect clothing while shaving or arranging hair. From its use as a private room, toilet came to refer euphemistically to lavatories and then to its fixtures, beginning in the United States in the late 19th century.
词源 2
From Middle French toilette, diminutive of toile (“cloth”), from their use to protect clothing while shaving or arranging hair. From its use as a private room, toilet came to refer euphemistically to lavatories and then to its fixtures, beginning in the United States in the late 19th century.
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