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urinal

noun
/jʊəˈraɪnəl/UK/ˈjʊɹɪnəl/US/ˈjʉːəɹɪnəl/

Etymology

From Middle English urinal, urynal, orynal, from Old French urinal, orinal (“vessel for urination”), from Latin ūrīnālis (“urinary”). Use for plumbing fixtures attested from 1851.

  1. derived from ūrīnālis
  2. derived from urinal
  3. inherited from urinal

Definitions

  1. A device or fixture used for urination, particularly

    • This was the second time in the last few months that she was asked to install a urinal in a luxury residential project, and she said she knows many other designers and architects who have been specifying home urinals in their projects.

  2. A device or fixture used for urination

  3. Any oblong glass vessel shaped like the old alchemist's urinal.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. A room or structure used for urination

      A room or structure used for urination: a latrine; an outhouse; a lavatory.

    2. Synonym of urinary.

      • Q. What amount, in cubic feet, would there be in Port Huron for one year, of fecal and urinal discharge into the sewers?

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Derived

bed urinal, urinal cake, urinal cookie, urinal mint, Urinal of the Planets, urinal puck, urinal screen

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at urinal. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at urinal. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at urinal

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA