geyser
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
Wikipedia describes geysers in the History subsection of the article:
Water heating
geyser (plural geysers)
- (planetology, geology, volcanology) A boiling natural spring which throws forth at frequent intervals jets of water, mud etc., driven up by the expansive power of steam.
- (British, archaic) An instantaneous, and often dangerous, hot water heater.
- 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.
- 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).
- 1902. William Paton Buchan, Plumbing: A Text-book to the Practice of the Art Or Craft of the Plumber:
- (South Africa) A domestic water boiler.
- French: geyser
- German: Geysir
- Italian: geyser
- Portuguese: géiser, gêiser
- Russian: ге́йзер
- Spanish: géiser
- Russian: водонагрева́тель
geyser (geysers, present participle geysering; past and past participle geysered)
- (ambitransitive) To (cause to) rush or burst upward like water from a geyser.
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