Laboratory vs. Lavatory: What's the Difference?
Laboratory and Lavatory Definitions
Laboratory
A room or building equipped for scientific experimentation or research.
Lavatory
A room equipped with washing and often toilet facilities; a bathroom.
Laboratory
An academic period devoted to work or study in such a place.
Lavatory
A washbowl or basin, especially one permanently installed with running water.
Laboratory
A place where drugs and chemicals are manufactured.
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Lavatory
A flush toilet.
Laboratory
A place for practice, observation, or testing.
Lavatory
A vessel or fixture for washing, particularly:
Laboratory
A room, building or institution equipped for scientific research, experimentation or analysis.
Lavatory
A laver: a washbasin.
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Laboratory
A place where chemicals, drugs or microbes are prepared or manufactured.
Lavatory
(archaic) A bathtub.
Laboratory
The workroom of a chemist; also, a place devoted to experiments in any branch of natural science; as, a chemical, physical, or biological laboratory. Hence, by extension, a place where something is prepared, or some operation is performed; as, the liver is the laboratory of the bile.
Lavatory
(Christianity) A piscina: the basin used for washing communion vessels.
Laboratory
Any place, activity or situation suggestive of a scientific laboratory{1}, especially in being conducive to learning new facts by experimentation or by systematic observation; as, the states serve as laboratories where different new policies may be tested prior to adoption throughout the country.
Lavatory
(Christianity) A lavabo: the basin used for washing one's hands before handling the Eucharist.
Laboratory
A workplace for the conduct of scientific research
Lavatory
A baptismal font: the basin used for baptism, used figuratively for the washing away of sins.
Laboratory
A region resembling a laboratory inasmuch as it offers opportunities for observation and practice and experimentation;
The new nation is a testing ground for socioeconomic theories
Pakistan is a laboratory for studying the use of American troops to combat terrorism
Lavatory
(construction, interior design) A plumbing fixture used for washing: a sink.
Their 'bathroom' included a toilet and a lavatory but no bath.
Lavatory
Handwashing as an act, particularly
Lavatory
(Christianity) The lavabo: the ritual washing of hands before handling the eucharist.
Lavatory
(Christianity) The ritual washing of hands after using the piscina to clean the communion vessels.
Lavatory
(obsolete) A liquid used in washing; a lotion; a wash; a rinse.
Lavatory
(dated) A washroom: a room used for washing the face and hands.
Lavatory
(euphemism) A room containing a toilet: a bathroom US or WC UK.
Americans don't know 'WC' and Brits mock 'bathroom' but everyone usually understands 'toilet' or 'lavatory'.
Lavatory
A plumbing fixture for urination and defecation: a toilet.
Lavatory
(dated) A place to wash clothes: a laundry.
Lavatory
(obsolete) A place where gold is panned.
Lavatory
(obsolete) A paved room in a mortuary where corpses are kept under a shower of disinfecting fluid.
Lavatory
(dated) Washing, or cleansing by washing.
Lavatory
Washing, or cleansing by washing.
Lavatory
A place for washing.
Lavatory
A basin or other vessel for washing in.
Lavatory
A wash or lotion for a diseased part.
Lavatory
A place where gold is obtained by washing.
Lavatory
A room containing one or more sinks for washing, as well as one or more toilet fixtures; also called bathroom, toilet, and sometimes commode. Commode and toilet may refer to a room with only a toilet fixture, but without a sink.
Lavatory
A room equipped with toilet facilities
Lavatory
A bathroom or lavatory sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe; where you wash your hands and face;
He ran some water in the basin and splashed it on his face
Lavatory
A toilet that is cleaned of waste by the flow of water through it
