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Siphon   /sˈaɪfən/   Listen
Siphon

noun
1.
A tube running from the liquid in a vessel to a lower level outside the vessel so that atmospheric pressure forces the liquid through the tube.  Synonym: syphon.
2.
A tubular organ in an aquatic animal (especially in mollusks) through which water can be taken in or expelled.  Synonym: syphon.






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"Siphon" Quotes from Famous Books



... have been read by all his subordinates; the others were posted to Gregorig's wife. Lueger did not say—but everybody knew —that the cards referred to a matter of town gossip which made Mr. Gregorig a chief actor in a tavern scene where siphon-squirting played a prominent and humorous part, and ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... gradually raised to the point of boiling, when it must again be slackened, and the whole left to stand for about forty minutes, by which time the mass of feculencies will have risen to the surface, when the clear liquor underneath may either be drawn off by a siphon or cock; the whole may be filtered as Mr. Fownes recommends, by which means the liquor would be more effectually clarified, and much, if not all, the subsequent labour of skimming dispensed with. The matter remaining ...
— The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom • P. L. Simmonds

... He was mixing a whisky-and-soda for his caller, and his laugh mingled with the splash of the siphon. "Of course! I've ...
— The Paradise Mystery • J. S. Fletcher



Words linked to "Siphon" :   zoology, draw, lay, place, syphon, siphon off, organ, take out, pose, set, put, position, tubing, zoological science, tube



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