URINAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does urinal mean? 

• URINAL (noun)
  The noun URINAL has 1 sense:

1. a plumbing fixture (usually attached to the wall) used by men to urinate

  Familiarity information: URINAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• URINAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A plumbing fixture (usually attached to the wall) used by men to urinate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("urinal" is a kind of...):

plumbing fixture (a fixture for the distribution and use of water in a building)

 Context examples 

It is used primarily as a space deodorant in products such as room deodorizers, urinal and toilet bowl blocks, and as an insecticide fumigant for moth control.

(Paradichlorobenzene, NCI Thesaurus)

According to the research team, half of all people worldwide are affected by limits on their water supply, while daily fresh water usage to flush the planet's roughly 1 billion toilets and flush urinals is upwards of 141 billion liters; which they note is several times larger than the total rate of water consumption for the continent of Africa.

(Materials scientists invent new coating for self-cleaning, water-efficient toilets, Wikinews)