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Toilet vs. Loo — What's the Difference?

Toilet vs. Loo — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Toilet and Loo

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Toilet

A toilet is a piece of sanitary hardware that collects human urine and feces, and sometimes toilet paper, usually for disposal. Flush toilets use water, while dry or non-flush toilets do not.

Loo

A toilet
Loo paper

Toilet

A fixed receptacle into which a person may urinate or defecate, typically consisting of a large bowl connected to a system for flushing away the waste into a sewer
Liz heard the toilet flush
A toilet seat
He got up to go to the toilet

Loo

A gambling card game, popular from the 17th to the 19th centuries, in which a player who fails to win a trick must pay a sum to a pool.

Toilet

The process of washing oneself, dressing, and attending to one's appearance
Her toilet completed, she finally went back downstairs
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Loo

A trick-taking card game in which each player contributes stakes to a pool and attempts to win at least one trick. A player who does not win at least one trick must add to the pool.

Toilet

Assist or supervise (someone, especially an infant or invalid) in using a toilet.

Loo

A toilet.

Toilet

An apparatus for defecation and urination, usually consisting of a bowl fitted with a hinged seat and connected to a waste pipe and a flushing apparatus.

Loo

A cry to urge on hunting dogs.

Toilet

A room or booth containing such an apparatus.

Loo

To urge on with cries of loo or by other shouting or outcry.

Toilet

The act or process of dressing or grooming oneself.

Loo

(transitive) To beat in the card game lanterloo.

Toilet

Dress; attire; costume.

Loo

To pay a penalty to the pool for breaking certain rules or failing to take a trick in lanterloo.

Toilet

The cleansing of a body area as part of a surgical or medical procedure.

Loo

To pay any penalty to any community.

Toilet

(Archaic) A dressing table.

Loo

: the card game.

Toilet

A room or enclosed area containing a fixture used for urination and defecation (i.e. a toilet (sense 2)): a bathroom or water closet.
Sorry, I was in the toilet.

Loo

The penalty paid to the pool in lanterloo for breaking certain rules or failing to take a trick.

Toilet

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 backed up. Now the bathroom's flooded.

Loo

An act that prompts such a penalty.

Toilet

(figuratively) A very shabby or dirty place.

Loo

A game of lanterloo.

Toilet

(NZ) A small secondary lavatory having a fixture used for urination and defecation (i.e. a toilet (sense 2)) and sink but no bathtub or shower.toilet

Loo

(figuratively) Any group of people.

Toilet

(obsolete) A covering of linen, silk, or tapestry, spread over a dressing table in a chamber or dressing room.

Loo

A half-mask, particularly those velvet half-masks fashionable in the 17th century as a means of protecting women's complexion from the sun.

Toilet

(obsolete) The table covered by such a cloth; a dressing table.

Loo

(India) A hot dust-bearing wind found in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and the Punjab.

Toilet

Personal grooming; the process of washing, dressing and arranging the hair.

Loo

A lavatory: a room used for urination and defecation.

Toilet

One's style of dressing: dress, outfit.

Loo

A toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation.

Toilet

(archaic) A dressing room.

Loo

(slang) A lieutenant.

Toilet

(obsolete) A chamber pot.

Loo

An old game played with five, or three, cards dealt to each player from a full pack. When five cards are used the highest card is the knave of clubs or (if so agreed upon) the knave of trumps; - formerly called lanterloo.

Toilet

(dated) To dress and groom oneself.

Loo

To beat in the game of loo by winning every trick.

Toilet

To use the toilet.

Loo

A toilet in England

Toilet

To assist another (a child, etc.) in using the toilet.

Toilet

A covering of linen, silk, or tapestry, spread over a table in a chamber or a dressing room.

Toilet

A dressing table.

Toilet

Act or mode of dressing, or that which is arranged in dressing; attire; dress; as, her toilet is perfect.

Toilet

A room equipped with toilet facilities

Toilet

A plumbing fixture for defecation and urination

Toilet

Misfortune resulting in lost effort or money;
His career was in the gutter
All that work went down the sewer
Pensions are in the toilet

Toilet

The act of dressing and preparing yourself;
He made his morning toilet and went to breakfast

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