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GEYSER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A spring that discharges hot water and steam
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("geyser" is a kind of...):
fountain; natural spring; outflow; outpouring; spring (a natural flow of ground water)
Instance hyponyms:
Old Faithful (a geyser in Yellowstone National Park that erupts for about 4 minutes about every 65 minutes)
Derivation:
geyser (to overflow like a geyser)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
To overflow like a geyser
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "geyser" is one way to...):
brim over; overflow; overrun; run over; well over (flow or run over (a limit or brim))
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
geyser (a spring that discharges hot water and steam)
Context examples:
Each unique tendril structure can be reproduced by particular sets of geysers on the moon's surface.
(Icy Tendrils Reaching into Saturn Ring Traced to Their Source, NASA)
What attracted Challenger, on the other hand, was a bubbling, gurgling mud geyser, where some strange gas formed great bursting bubbles upon the surface.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The brightness of the plume formed by all the geysers, as seen with Cassini’s high resolution cameras, changes periodically as Enceladus orbits Saturn.
(101 Geysers on Icy Saturn Moon, NASA)
Into this opening several bamboo canes had been inserted and the other ends of these canes were in contact with conical clay funnels which collected the gas bubbling up through the mud of the geyser.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
To determine the surface locations of the geysers, researchers employed the same process of triangulation used historically to survey geological features on Earth, such as mountains.
(101 Geysers on Icy Saturn Moon, NASA)
When the researchers compared the geysers’ locations with low-resolution maps of thermal emission, it became apparent the greatest geyser activity coincided with the greatest thermal radiation.
(101 Geysers on Icy Saturn Moon, NASA)
Nor was it certain whether excess heat emitted by Enceladus was everywhere correlated with geyser activity.
(101 Geysers on Icy Saturn Moon, NASA)
After the first sighting of the geysers in 2005, scientists suspected repeated flexing of Enceladus by Saturn’s tides as the moon orbits the planet had something to do with their behavior.
(101 Geysers on Icy Saturn Moon, NASA)
Over a period of almost seven years, Cassini’s cameras surveyed the south polar terrain of the small moon, a unique geological basin renowned for its four prominent "tiger stripe” fractures and the geysers of tiny icy particles and water vapor first sighted there nearly 10 years ago. The result of the survey is a map of 101 geysers, each erupting from one of the tiger stripe fractures, and the discovery that individual geysers are coincident with small hot spots. These relationships pointed the way to the geysers’ origin.###!!!###
(101 Geysers on Icy Saturn Moon, NASA)
Individual geysers were found to coincide with small-scale hot spots, only a few dozen feet (or tens of meters) across, which were too small to be produced by frictional heating, but the right size to be the result of condensation of vapor on the near-surface walls of the fractures.
(101 Geysers on Icy Saturn Moon, NASA)
