different between geyser vs geothermal

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”)

English

Etymology

geo- +? thermal

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(r)m?l

Adjective

geothermal (not comparable)

1. pertaining to heat energy extracted from reservoirs in the earth's interior

Related terms

• geothermal energy
• geyser

Translations