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geyser

[ gahy-zer, -ser gee-zer ]

noun

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


verb (used without object)

  1. to spew forth as or like a geyser:

    the kettle geysering all over the stove.

geyser

/ ˈɡiËzÉ™; ˈɡaɪ³úÉ™°ù /

noun

  1. a spring that discharges steam and hot water
  2. a domestic gas water heater
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geyser

/ ²µÄ«â€²³úÉ™°ù /

  1. A natural hot spring that regularly ejects a spray of steam and boiling water into the air.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of geyser1

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

Origin of geyser1

C18: from Icelandic Geysir, from Old Norse geysa to gush
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There’s geysers of gore and a skinhead who gets turned into a tiki torch.

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The wellspring of this geyser of asininity is the simple fact that Trump doesn’t understand how trade works.

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The smoldering conditions also caused pressure to build, resulting in geysers of hazardous liquid waste bursting onto the surface and white smoke seeping out of long fissures.

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Another one gave way in rural Yancey County last week, sending a geyser dozens of feet into the air.

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Observations from Earth and orbiting probes suggest that some of this water works through fissures in the ice and blasts through in geysers over a hundred miles high.

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