Lavatory vs Wash - What's the difference?
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A bathroom; a washroom; a room containing a toilet.
* 2003 , Gauvin A. Bailey, Between Renaissance and Baroque: Jesuit Art in Rome, 1565-1610 , University of Toronto Press,
* 2003 , Rob Rachowiecki, Danny Palmerlee, Ecuador and the Galápagos Islands ,
A facility for washing hands; a basin.
* 2005 , Michael W. Litchfield, Renovation ,
* 2010 , Chris Peterson, Black & Decker: The Complete Guide to Bathrooms , Third Edition,
* 2011 , Sharon Koomen Harmon, Katherine E. Kennon, The Codes Guidebook for Interiors ,
(UK, New England) A toilet, a water closet.
* 1997 , , The Plague of Fantasies , Verso, London,
(dated) Washing, or cleansing by washing.
To clean with water.
To move or erode by the force of water in motion.
(mining) To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.
To clean oneself with water.
To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.
* Milton
* Longfellow
To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.
(figuratively) To be cogent, convincing; to withstand critique.
* 2012 , (The Economist), Oct 13th 2012 issue,
To bear without injury the operation of being washed.
To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea; said of road, a beach, etc.
To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.
To overlay with a thin coat of metal.
The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.
A liquid used for washing.
The quantity of clothes washed at a time.
(arts) A smooth and translucent .
The sound of breaking of the seas, e.g., on the shore.
The wake of a moving ship.
The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.
A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.
Ground washed away to the sea or a river.
* Mortimer
A piece of ground washed by the action of water, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh.
* Shakespeare
A shallow body of water.
In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo or wadi.
* 1997 , Stanley Desmond Smith, et al. Physiological Ecology of North American Desert Plants, Nature
* 1999 , Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert
* 2005 , Le Hayes, Pilgrims in the Desert: The Early History of the East Mojave Desert
An situation in which losses and gains or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent; a situation in which there is no net change.
* 2003 , David Brenner, I Think There's a Terrorist in My Soup , page 100:
Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.
In distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
A thin coat of metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
(nautical) The blade of an oar.
The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.
As a noun lavatory
is a bathroom; a washroom; a room containing a toilet.As an adjective lavatory
is (dated) washing, or cleansing by washing.As an initialism wash is
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Noun
(lavatories)page 61,
- Even the lavatory , a vestibule to the refectory through which the novices would pass on their way to the recreation room, boasted a painting cycle.
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- People needing to use the lavatory often ask to use the baño in a restaurant; toilet paper is rarely available, so the experienced traveler always carries a personal supply.
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- Lavatories (bathroom sinks) are available in a blizzard of colors, materials, and styles.
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- If your lavatory doesn?t have a predrilled flange, the great advantage to the widespread configuration is that you gain flexibility in locating your spout and handles (probably a bigger advantage for tubs than for lavatories).
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- Anywhere a water closet is used, a lavatory (ie, hand-washing sink) must also be installed.
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- In a traditional German lavatory', the hole in which shit disappears after we flush water is way in front, so that the shit is first laid out for us to sniff at and inspect for traces of some illness; in the typical French '''lavatory''', on the contrary, the hole is in the back - that is, the shit is supposed to disappear as soon as possible; finally, the Anglo-Saxon (English or American) ' lavatory presents a kind of synthesis, a mediation between these two opposed poles - the basin is full of water so that the shit floats in it - visible, but not to be inspected.
Adjective
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Verb
- Heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.
- Waves wash the shore.
- fresh-blown roses washed with dew
- [the landscape] washed with a cold, grey mist
The Jordan and its king: As beleaguered as ever
- The king is running out of ideas as well as cash. His favourite shock-absorbing tactic—to blame his governments and sack his prime ministers—hardly washes .
- steel washed with silver
Usage notes
In older works and possibly still in some dialects, wesh'' and ''woosh'' may be found as past tense forms. ''Washen may be found as a past participle.Derived terms
* dishwasher * jetwash * wash away * wash down * washed up / all washed up * washer * wash off * wash one's hands of * wash out * wash over * wash upNoun
(washes)- I'm going to have a quick wash before coming to bed.
- My jacket needs a wash .
- There's a lot in that wash : maybe you should split it into two piles.
- I could hear the wash of the wave.
- The ship left a big wash
- Sail away from the wash to avoid rocking the boat.
- mouth wash
- hand wash
- The wash of pastures, fields, commons, and roads, where rain water hath a long time settled.
- These Lincoln washes have devoured them.
- In some desert-wash systems (which have been termed “xero-riparian”)
- ... though the wash may carry surface water for only a few hours a year.
- Rock Spring Wash' continues a short distance then joins Watson '''Wash'''. Water from Rock Spring comes out of the boulder strewn ' wash and disappears into the sand
- I knew that for every vote I cast for, say, the Republicans, some kid at a polling place nearby was casting his votes for the Democrats, so it was probably a wash or close to it.
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