Bath vs Toilet - What's the difference?
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A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub.
A building or area where bathing occurs.
* Gwilt
The act of bathing.
A substance or preparation in which something is immersed.
* {{quote-book, year=1879 , title=The Telephone, the Microphone and the Phonograph
, author=Th Du Moncel , page=166 , publisher=Harper
, passage=He takes the prepared charcoal used by artists, brings it to a white heat, and suddenly plunges it in a bath of mercury, of which the globules instantly penetrate the pores of charcoal, and may be said to metallize it.}}
To wash a person or animal in a bath
* {{quote-book, year=1990
, author=Mukti Jain Campion
, title=The Baby Challenge: A handbook on pregnancy for women with a physical disability.
* {{quote-book, year=2006
, author=Sue Dallas, Diana North and Joanne Angus
, title=Grooming Manual for the Dog and Cat
* {{quote-book, year=2007
, author=Robin Barker
, title=Baby Love
(biblical) An ancient Hebrew unit of liquid volume measure, equal to an ephah and to one-tenth of a homer, and approximately equal to 22 litres.
* 1611, ,
(label) Personal grooming; washing, dressing etc.
* 1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, page 111:
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* 1917 , Arthur Conan Doyle, :
(label) A dressing room.
Now specifically, a room or enclosed cubicle containing a lavatory, e.g. a bathroom or water closet (WC).
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* 2002 , Digby Tantam, Psychotherapy and Counselling in Practice: A Narrative Framework (page 122)
A lavatory or device for depositing human waste and then flushing it away with water.
Other similar devices, such as squat toilets, as in Japan or the Middle East.
(label) A shabby or dirty place, especially a lounge/bar/pub/tavern.
* 1982 , (The Mosquito Coast) :
(label) A covering of linen, silk, or tapestry, spread over a table in a chamber or dressing room.
(label) A dressing table.
* 1904 , Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock , Canto I, lines 121-126:
(label) To dress and groom oneself
To use the toilet, or assist (a child, etc.) in using the toilet
As nouns the difference between bath and toilet
is that bath is a tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub while toilet is personal grooming; washing, dressing etc.As verbs the difference between bath and toilet
is that bath is to wash a person or animal in a bath while toilet is to dress and groom oneself.As a proper noun Bath
is a city in Somerset, England, famous for its baths fed by a hot spring.bath
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Among the ancients, the public baths were of amazing extent and magnificence.
- a bath of heated sand, ashes, steam, or hot air
Usage notes
Sense 3. is usually to take''' ''(US)'' or '''have ''(UK, Aus)'' a bath. See alsoDerived terms
* * * * * (US)Verb
(en verb)citation, isbn=0415048591 , page=41 , passage=Somewhere to bath''' the baby'': don't invest in a plastic baby bath. The bathroom handbasin is usually a much more convenient place to '''bath''' the baby. If your partner is more able, this could be a task he might take on as his, ' bathing the baby in a basin or plastic bown on the floor. }}
citation, isbn=1405111836 , page=91 , passage=For grooming at home, obviously the choice is yours whether you wish to bath the dog in your own bath or sink, or if you want to buy one specifically for the purpose. }}
citation, isbn=17770075445 , page=179 , passage=If you find bathing stressfull during the first six weeks, only bath your baby once or twice a week. }}
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath'. The ephah and the '''bath''' shall be of one measure, that the ' bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.
Anagrams
* * 1000 English basic words ----toilet
English
(wikipedia toilet)Alternative forms
* toiletteNoun
(en noun)- Three women got down and standing on the curb they made unabashed toilets , smoothing skirts and stockings, brushing one another's back, opening parcels and donning various finery.
- "It is so painful in you, Celia, that you will look at human beings as if they were merely animals with a toilet , and never see the great soul in a man's face."
- "It is a quarter-past two," he said. "Your telegram was dispatched about one. But no one can glance at your toilet and attire without seeing that your disturbance dates from the moment of your waking."
- there were also tons of garbage festering in the sun, and the greasy laundry of the workers hung out to dry, and dining rooms littered with food and black with flies, and toilet rooms that were open sewers.
- He would hit her when she cried and, if this did not work, would lock her in the toilet for hours on end.
- EPA is currently developing the specification for high-efficiency toilets . All HETs that meet WaterSense criteria for efficiency and performance will be eligible to receive a label once EPA finalizes the specification. —
US Environmental Protection Agency.
- Look around you. It's a toilet .
- And now, unveil’d, the toilet stands display’d,
- Each silver vase in mystic order laid.
- First, robed in white, the nymph intent adores,
- With head uncover’d, the cosmetic powers.
- A heav’nly image in the glass appears;
- To that she bends, to that her eyes she rears.