What's the difference between lavatory and restroom?

Lavatory


Definition:

  • (a.) Washing, or cleansing by washing.
  • (n.) A place for washing.
  • (n.) A basin or other vessel for washing in.
  • (n.) A wash or lotion for a diseased part.
  • (n.) A place where gold is obtained by washing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He fired four bullets through a lavatory door, killing Steenkamp, who was in the cubicle inside the athlete's house in an upmarket housing complex in the capital Pretoria.
  • (2) I’ve had run-ins with Virgin train lavatories too.
  • (3) There’s a report of smoke in the forward lavatory [and] a minute later there’s smoke in the avionics bay, which is very worrying; and then two minutes later the flight control computers, one after the other, start to fail,” Learmount told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
  • (4) And while Altmejd presents sexual scenes of cartoonish horror and disgust, Lucas's art has embraced lavatorial humour, abjection, self-denigration, the pithy sculptural one-liner and the obscene gesture.
  • (5) This is from the 1949 Variety Programme Policy Guide for Writers and Producers: "There is an absolute ban on the following: jokes about lavatories, effeminacy in men, immorality of any kind; suggestive reference to honeymoon couples, chambermaids, prostitution; extreme care should be taken in dealing with references to or jokes about marital infidelity."
  • (6) If neither of these sounds enough of an incentive to ditch your lavatory for one with its own Twitter account, you may be in the minority: a recent survey suggested that 70% of people would be willing to share data from their lavatory if this could lead to healthcare savings.
  • (7) Clearly, the fact that some mainstream viewers want something doesn't mean they should be given it – or EPGs would offer a network called Lavatory – and it can be argued that the current two-track coverage offers a choice to both viewers who want to be protected and those who want unregulated images.
  • (8) And I ran to the lavatory, and cried and howled – 'Why?
  • (9) Perhaps more intrusive is the idea of an Internet of Things-enabled lavatory, which uses sensors inside the bowl to sample your stool and provide health-related insights.
  • (10) When she uses public toilets, she likes to rub her vagina around the lavatory seat, and she has experimented with "long periods of not washing my pussy", to investigate its erotic impact - dabbing her own personal pubic perfume behind her earlobes.
  • (11) My daughter will be at the new germ-free Glasto with 40 volunteer litter pickers, screening a new documentary to raise money for children living on distant rubbish tips , so that they may have clean clothes, schools and lovely hygienic lavatories, which they also long for.
  • (12) In a three-urinal lavatory, a confederate stood immediately adjacent to a subject, one urinal removed, or was absent.
  • (13) But most people shrugged and got on with finding bricks to put in the lavatory cistern or measuring the bathwater to the five inches recommended by civil servants in Whitehall.
  • (14) At least the lavatory is out on the landing, although shared with another resident.
  • (15) Lewis had been the brains behind the “love your body” advertising campaign for Unilever’s Dove soap brand and ran other successful marketing programmes for the household goods group around the world — including one that forced rival Proctor & Gamble to pull Ariel out of parts of South America because the name became synonymous with lavatory seats.
  • (16) Those who were too ill to work were thrown overboard, some interviewees reported, while others said they were beaten if they so much as took a lavatory break.
  • (17) Although 90% of respondents felt that condoms were readily available, sales in supermarkets, newspaper stands, and vending machines in women's lavatories were recommended.
  • (18) As its name and flat roofs and metal-framed windows suggest, the New Era estate also dates from that time; it was built by a philanthropist to give its working-class tenants the benefit of electricity, baths, indoor lavatories and hot running water.
  • (19) It was a little reminiscent of that scene in The Godfather when Al Pacino leaves a "mediation" meeting with his father's would-be killers to go to the lavatory in an Italian restaurant in New York chosen for peace talks aimed at averting an all out war.
  • (20) This is true for 26% of the waiting rooms, 20% of the elevators, 30% of the passages and 46% of the lavatories.

Restroom


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As the separate facilities provision is permissive, states that authorise schools to define sex to include gender identity for purposes of providing separate restroom, locker room, showers, and other intimate facilities will not be impacted by it,” said Judge O’Connor.
  • (2) North Carolina legislators have approved a bill that prevents cities and counties from passing their own anti-discrimination rules, including a measure that allows transgender people to use the restroom aligned with their gender identity.
  • (3) The South Dakota bill, which would mandate school restroom facilities and locker rooms “be designated for and used only by students of the same biological sex”, passed the state senate and awaits a decision from the state’s Republican governor, Dennis Daugaard, who is said to be favorable to the bill.
  • (4) The future It is therefore surprising that this now discredited notion has been resurrected in the current debate over who can use which public restrooms.
  • (5) The results indicated that, as compared to the pretraining competencies, the training was effective in teaching restroom cleaning skills.
  • (6) If he uses the women’s restroom as the law requires, the suit said, “it would also force him to disclose to others the fact that he is transgender, which itself could lead to violence and harassment”.
  • (7) The study was designed to examine the efficacy of using three levels of prompts on three autistic clients' acquisition of 18 response sequences in cleaning a restroom.
  • (8) Last week Target made an announcement on its website, under a mash-up of the company logo and a rainbow: “We welcome transgender team members and guests to use the restroom or fitting room facility that corresponds with their gender identity.” It was the most high-profile statement on bathrooms from a major company, and drew cheers from supporters.
  • (9) For a typical workload of approximately 25-30 procedures per day, it was found that radioactive contamination ranged from approximately 10(3) Bq 100 cm-2 99mTc for the nuclear medicine restrooms to approximately 10(4) Bq 100 cm-2 for men's toilet facilities.
  • (10) 'Papers to pee': Texas, Kentucky and Florida consider anti-transgender bills Read more “It’s better to prevent this danger by closing women’s restrooms to men rather than waiting for a crime to happen.
  • (11) The authors describe a woman who died suddenly in an emergency department restroom after self-injection of corn starch in an attempt to gain admission to the hospital.
  • (12) De La Rosa noticed him standing by the restroom, where "a female wearing a white burka head dress" [sic] would emerge.
  • (13) Fresh from writing to the retail giant , Target, to fret that their inclusive restroom policy could be a recipe for criminality, Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, filed an amicus brief last week along with representatives from Arizona, Kansas, Nebraska, Maine, North Carolina and Utah, in an appeal against a Virginia court’s ruling in favour of a transgender student named Gavin Grimm who is seeking to use the boys’ restroom at his school .
  • (14) Amid protests by Republicans and church leaders, the mayor, Annise Parker, removed language stating that no business could deny a transgender person access to the restroom consistent with his or her gender identity.
  • (15) While the Obama administration is being sued, the real targets here are vulnerable young people and adults who simply seek to live their lives free from discrimination when they go to school, work or the restroom.
  • (16) The effect of the odor of androstenol on restroom-stall choices was investigated over a 5-week period.
  • (17) Finally, Victorian values that stressed the importance of privacy and modesty were subjected to special challenge in factories, where women worked side by side with men, often sharing the same single-user restrooms.
  • (18) In 2015, Fox claimed that a concerned mother was booted from a department store simply for complaining about a “man” harassing her daughter in the restroom.
  • (19) With this decision, we hope that schools and legislators will finally get the message that excluding transgender kids from the restrooms is unlawful sex discrimination.” A three-judge panel from the fourth circuit court of appeals handed down the split decision as part of an ongoing lawsuit against the Gloucester County school board.
  • (20) The law, HB2, effectively forces trans people to use restrooms that correspond to the sex assigned to them at birth, which critics say is unenforceable and a clear violation of the US Civil Rights Act.

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