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geyser

[ gahy-zer, -ser gee-zer ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a hot spring that intermittently sends up fountainlike jets of water and steam into the air.
British Informal. a hot-water heater, as for a bath.

geyser

/ ˈɡiːzə; ˈɡaɪzər /

geyser

/ gī′zər /

A natural hot spring that regularly ejects a spray of steam and boiling water into the air.

Origin of geyser¹

1755–65; < Icelandic Geysir name of a hot spring in Iceland, literally, gusher, derivative of geysa to gush

Origin of geyser¹

C18: from Icelandic Geysir, from Old Norse geysa to gush

The oil geyser has shot them to different financial universes, but they still understand each other perfectly.

This prompts Sarah Lynn to stab herself with a Confederate bayonet letter-opener, causing a geyser of blood.

There was a tremendous splash, and a small-sized geyser shot upward.

The famous geyser shown in the illustration is called “Old Faithful” because of the clock-like regularity of its eruptions.

She is right, it is petroleum; there are here wells of it, from which it bursts up with great force sometimes, like a geyser.

Toward the geyser hurried Frank, still looking for his companion.

Unlike that of the Great Geyser, it is always in ebullition, and its temperature is subject to comparatively slight differences.

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