urinal

plural urinals

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.

   2007 January 25, Suzanne Gannon, “For the High-End Bathroom, Something Unexpected”, in The New York Times

2. A device or fixture used for urination
   1. historicalalchemyA glass vial used for examining or storing urine.
   2. obsoleteA chamber pot specially designed or considered as a device for urination.

      Synonyms: can, chamber, chamber pot, chemical toilet, commode, Cousin John, crapper, gazunder

   3. A device for urination worn or used by patients suffering urinary incontinence.
   4. A plumbing fixture intended for standing urination, typically by men and boys.

      Synonyms: big white telephone, bog, can, commode, crapper, crapper trapper, donniker, dunny

3. obsoletechemistryAny oblong glass vessel shaped like the old alchemist's urinal.
4. obsoleteA room or structure used for urination: a latrine; an outhouse; a lavatory.

   Synonyms: bathroom, latrine, necessarium, toilet, toilet room, water closet, WC, cloaca

1. not comparableSynonym 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?

   1903, In the Supreme Court of the United States: The State of Missouri vs. the State of Illinois and the Sanitary District of Chicago, pages 2504–2505

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   If on the other hand it is to be used by a congregation, which as a rule, only occupy their church once, twice or three times a week, then I would suggest where it can be obtained that an improved “water closet” be used, and by this I mean a urinal and fecal basin, which can be kept clean by liberal flushing with water after each time it is used, and so trapped and ventilated as to absolutely protect the room in which it is placed from any contamination whatever.[…]This same closet can be arranged for urinal purposes by having the lid of the seat for each person attached to a hinge so that it can be raised up when desired to be used for micturation^([sic]) only.

   1892, R. Harvey Reed, “How Can We Control the Privy Vault Nuisance?”, in Gilbert I. Cullen, editor, The Cincinnati Medical Journal, volume VII, number 4, Cincinnati, Oh.: M. A. Spencer & Co., pages 130–131

   Urinal and fecal wastes were placed in runoff boxes at the base, midpoint and top of 20cm snow packs. The units were subjected to carefully controlled temperature fluctuations ranging from 8 to 12 degrees C. Urinal losses were determined primarily by the quantity of water which passed through the manure layer. Fecal nitrogen losses were much lower than urinal losses.

   1975, G. D. Bubenzer, J. C. Converse, Impact of Freezing and Thawing Soil Conditions on the Movement of Nutrients by Water from Rural Lands

   Synonyms: urinary