Geyser

Noun

 * 1)  A boiling natural spring which throws forth at frequent intervals jets of water, mud etc., driven up by the expansive power of steam.
 * 2)  An instantaneous, and often dangerous, hot water heater using hot steam.
 * 3) * 1902. William Paton Buchan, Plumbing: A Text-book to the Practice of the Art Or Craft of the Plumber:
 * Where a Geyser or hot-water heater is used it is a good and wise precaution to see that the bath-room, &c., when it is used is well ventilated.
 * 1) * 1998, Gordon S Riess, Confessions of a Corporate Centurion: Tales of International Adventures
 * Water was heated either on the gas stove, or on a wall mounted gas-fired "geyser" heater.
 * 1) * 2002, Alaine Polcz, One woman in the war: Hungary, 1944-1945:
 * It was here I saw a geyser gas water heater in a bathroom for the first time. (I was afraid of it).
 * 1)  A domestic water boiler.

Derived terms

 * geyserite

Verbs for Geyser
—blows off; —bolls; —bubbles; —darts; — ejects; —emits; —erupts; —explodes; — gurgles; —gushes; —jets; —plays; —pours; —relaxes; —ruins; —shoots; —snorts; — spouts; —spurts; —swells; —throws off.

Thesaurus
Old Faithful, boiling water, flush, font, fount, fountain, gush, hot spring, hot water, jet, rush, spew, spit, spout, spouter, spray, spritz, spurt, spurtle, squirt, steam, thermae, vapor

Etymology
From around 1755-1765, from the proper name Geysir:, which means and is the name of a hot spring in Iceland (Geysir’s English Wikipedia article). The word geysir literally means gusher:, derived from the verb geysa:, descended from  geysa:.

Pronunciation

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Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Basque: geiser
 * Catalan: guèiser
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 間歇泉, 间歇泉
 * Czech:
 * Danish: gejser
 * Dutch: geiser
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: geiser
 * Finnish:
 * French: geiser,
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: גייזר
 * Hindi: उष्णोत्स
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 間欠泉


 * Korean: (間歇泉)
 * Latvian: geizers
 * Lithuanian: geizeris
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan: gueisèr
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: gheizer
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: gejser
 * Thai: ไกเซอร์
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese: mạch nước phun
 * Volapük: gäysär


 * Dutch: geiser, geizer

Anagrams

 * eygres, Sergey