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UK
/sˈaɪfən/
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[ US /ˈsaɪfən/ ]
[ US /ˈsaɪfən/ ]
NOUN
- a tube running from the liquid in a vessel to a lower level outside the vessel so that gravity forces the liquid through the tube
- a tubular organ in an aquatic animal (especially in mollusks) through which water can be taken in or expelled
VERB
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move a liquid from one container into another by means of a siphon or a siphoning action
siphon gas into the tank - convey, draw off, or empty by or as if by a siphon
How To Use siphon In A Sentence
- Complicated cross-shareholdings in the keiretsu style are typical in Asia, where controlling families and their cronies siphon much wealth away from shareholders.
- Recently there was some research done which showed that of the sports that are on the anti-siphoning list, the free-to-airs had in fact only shown 16% of telecasts of those sports.
- Try siphonophores, gelatinous animals that live in the deep sea, whose abundance is only now being measured by scientists in Monterey Bay, but may take the prize.
- They stopped every five miles to suck gas into the siphon and feed the engine.
- That's how his bloodsucker business manager siphoned off so much of his money. LADY BE GOOD
- She puts a piece of plastic tubing in her mouth and starts siphoning gas from a huge metal drum.
- The simplest solutions like siphoning the washing water onto the garden are the most effective in the long run.
- The solid sludge is siphoned off and burnt in a steam engine to produce enough electricity to process the next batch of waste. Times, Sunday Times
- It had been steadily gaining nutrients as his career developed, siphoning off its share of each ill-gotten gain. PROSPECT HILL
- He was put on a little silver tray, and an ingeniously wrought siphon showered him with pure water, which the faqir had no doubt drawn from some sacred well or spring. Love and Life Behind the Purdah