different between cyclone vs geyser

English

Etymology

Coined by Henry Piddington, probably in the 1840s, and based on some term in Ancient Greek. Sources disagree on the date and on which Ancient Greek term, though it had to be something derived from either ?????? (kúklos, “circle, wheel”) or ?????? (kukló?, “go around in a circle, form a circle, encircle”), for example the present active participle ?????? (kuklôn). See cycle and wheel.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?sa?.klo?n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sa?.kl??n/

Noun

cyclone (plural cyclones)

1. (broad sense) A weather phenomenon consisting of a system of winds rotating around a center of low atmospheric pressure
2. (narrow sense) Such weather phenomenon occurring in the South Pacific and Indian Ocean
3. A low pressure system.
4. (informal) The more or less violent, small-scale circulations such as tornadoes, waterspouts, and dust devils.
5. A strong wind.
6. A cyclone separator; the cylindrical vortex tube within such a separator

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:cyclone.

Derived terms

• anticyclone
• cyclone cellar
• cyclone pit

Translations

Verb

cyclone (third-person singular simple present cyclones, present participle cycloning, simple past and past participle cycloned)

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   • 1997, D. J. H. Jones, Murder in the New Age

     White dust was cycloning at the bottom of ravines that cut for miles into the red flatness

   • 2015, Robert J. Morgan, Mastering Life Before It's Too Late

     Now, all of a sudden, I had to juggle class schedules with study time and assignment deadlines and work hours. It quickly cycloned into a sort of frantic agitation with all-nighters, near misses, and frenzied nerves.

See also

• hurricane
• typhoon
• polar vortex
• cyclone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (kuklôn), present active participle of ?????? (kukló?, “I encircle”), from ?????? (kúklos, “circle”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.klon/

Noun

cyclone m (plural cyclones)

1. cyclone (rotating system of winds)

Further reading

• “cyclone” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From the name of a particular Icelandic geyser which is mentioned as early as the 1760s in The Annual Register, as “Geyser, a wonderful spring in the valley of Haukadal”. From Geysir (“Gusher”), the Icelandic name of the hot spring in Iceland (see Wikipedia), from the verb geysa (“to gush”), from Old Norse geysa (“to gush”). Doublet of gusher.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??i?z?/, /??a?z?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??a?z?/
• Rhymes: -a?z?(r), -i?z?(r)
• Homophones: guiser, geezer

Noun

geyser (plural geysers)

1. (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.
2. (Britain, 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).

3. (South Africa, India) A domestic water boiler.

Derived terms

• geyserite

Translations

Verb

geyser (third-person singular simple present geysers, present participle geysering, simple past and past participle geysered)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) rush or burst upward like water from a geyser.
   • 1944, Jacland Marmur, Sea Duty: And Other Stories of Naval Action (page 21)

     Four jets of water geysered upward from the sea. Short and wide. He noted it. Ranging salvo. His division was discovered.

References

Anagrams

• Sergey, eygres

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.z??/

Noun

geyser m (plural geysers)

1. (geology) geyser

Indonesian

Noun

geyser (plural geyser-geyser, first-person possessive geyserku, second-person possessive geysermu, third-person possessive geysernya)

1. (geology, nonstandard) Alternative spelling of geiser (“geyser”)