Fountain vs Geyser - What's the difference?
fountain | geyser |
(label) A spring, natural source of water.
An artificial, usually ornamental, water feature (usually in a garden or public place) consisting of one or more streams of water originating from a statue or other structure.
The structure from which an artificial fountain can issue.
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, passage=As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain , and he fled away with a cameo note.}}
A reservoir from which liquid can be drawn.
A source, origin of a flow (e.g. of favors, of knowledge).
A juggling pattern typically done with an even number of props where each prop is caught by the same hand that thows it.
(label) A roundel barry wavy argent and azure.
(label) A soda fountain.
To flow or gush as if from a fountain.
* (Tom Reamy), Blind Voices
(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.
(British, 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 :
* 1998 , Gordon S Riess, Confessions of a Corporate Centurion: Tales of International Adventures
* 2002 , Alaine Polcz, One woman in the war: Hungary, 1944-1945 :
(South Africa) A domestic water boiler.
As nouns the difference between fountain and geyser
is that fountain is a spring, natural source of water while geyser is a boiling natural spring which throws forth at frequent intervals jets of water, mud etc., driven up by the expansive power of steam.As a verb fountain
is to flow or gush as if from a fountain.fountain
English
Noun
(en noun)“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=Ep./4/2
Synonyms
* fount * wellspringDerived terms
* fountainlet * fountain pen * fountainhead * drinking fountain * soda fountain * water fountainVerb
(en verb)- The fireflies swept toward him from all directions, in streams and rivers and currents of light, a vortex a hundred yards across, spiraling into the brighter center. They met over his supine body like ocean breakers, cascading, fountaining into the air.
External links
* (wikipedia "fountain")Anagrams
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geyser
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- Water was heated either on the gas stove, or on a wall mounted gas-fired "geyser " heater.
- It was here I saw a geyser gas water heater in a bathroom for the first time. (I was afraid of it).