Heater vs. Geyser — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Heater and Geyser
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Heater
An apparatus that heats or provides heat.
Geyser
A geyser (, UK: ) is a spring characterized by an intermittent discharge of water ejected turbulently and accompanied by steam. As a fairly rare phenomenon, the formation of geysers is due to particular hydrogeological conditions that exist only in a few places on Earth.
Heater
One who heats something or tends a heating apparatus.
Geyser
A hot spring in which water intermittently boils, sending a tall column of water and steam into the air.
Heater
(Slang) A pistol.
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Geyser
A gas-fired water heater through which water flows as it is rapidly heated.
Heater
(Baseball) A fastball.
Geyser
(especially of water or steam) gush or burst out with great force
A fissure opened and yellow smoke geysered upward
Heater
A device that produces and radiates heat, typically to raise the temperature of a room or building.
Turn on the heater; I'm cold.
Geyser
A natural hot spring that intermittently ejects a column of water and steam into the air.
Heater
A person who heats something, for example in metalworking.
Geyser
(gēzər) Chiefly British A gas-operated hot-water heater.
Heater
A gun.
The thug pumped two rounds from his heater into her.
Geyser
A boiling natural spring which throws forth jets of water, mud, etc., at frequent intervals, driven upwards by the expansive power of steam.
Heater
A fastball, especially one thrown at high velocity.
Jones threw a heater under his chin.
Geyser
(by extension) A momentary vertical jet or fountain of fluid driven upwards by a violent force.
Heater
An extended winning streak.
Emmy went on a heater in Las Vegas and came back six thousand dollars richer.
Geyser
An instantaneous, and often dangerous, hot water heater.
Heater
(historical) A medieval European shield having a rounded triangle shape like a clothes iron.
Geyser
A domestic water boiler.
Heater
(horse racing) A dead heat; a race in which two or more competitors reach the finish line simultaneously.
Geyser
(ambitransitive) To (cause to) rush or burst upward like water from a geyser.
Heater
One who, or that which, heats.
Geyser
A boiling spring which throws forth at frequent intervals jets of water, mud, etc., driven up by the expansive power of steam.
Heater
Any contrivance or implement, as a furnace, stove, or other heated body or vessel, etc., used to impart heat to something, or to contain something to be heated.
Geyser
A spring that discharges hot water and steam
Heater
A pistol or other carryable firearm; as, gunmen with their heaters bulging in their pockets.
Geyser
To overflow like a geyser
Heater
Device that heats water or supplies warmth to a room
Heater
(baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity;
He swung late on the fastball
He showed batters nothing but smoke
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