Heater vs Geyser - What's the difference?
heater | geyser |
A device that produces and radiates heat, typically to raise the temperature of a room or building.
(dated, slang) A gun.
(baseball, slang) A fastball.
(gambling, slang) An extended winning streak.
(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 heater and geyser
is that heater is a device that produces and radiates heat, typically to raise the temperature of a room or building 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.heater
English
(wikipedia heater)Noun
(en noun)- Turn on the heater ; I'm cold.
- The thug pumped two rounds from his heater into her.
- Jones threw a heater under his chin.
- Emmy went on a heater in Las Vegas and came back six thousand dollars richer.
See also
* heatingAnagrams
* English agent nounsgeyser
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).