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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
- An unspecified and unlimited amount of investors' money is siphoned off in fees to at least a dozen different agents, from administrators to brokers. Times, Sunday Times
- 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
