siphon
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: From Middle French siphon, from Old French sifon, from Latin sīphō, from Ancient Greek σίφων (síphōn, “pipe, tube”), of uncertain origin; possibly related to Latin tibia (“pipe, flute of bone”), with the irregular forms suggesting a non-Indo-European loan source, perhaps of the shape *twi-, *twibh.
Inflected forms:
form: siphons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: syphon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: siphons
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: siphoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: siphoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: siphoned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: syphon
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other, in which hydrostatic pressure exerted due to the force of gravity moves liquid from one reservoir to another.
pos: noun
examples: The asserted fact that free hydrochloric acid is absent from the fluid removed by a siphon in cases of cancer of the stomach has been lately much discussed in Germany, and Dr Van der Welden, of Strassburg, introduced an alcoholic solution of tropæolin as a test with this object.
gloss: A soda siphon.
pos: noun
gloss: A tubelike organ found in animals or elongated cell found in plants.
pos: noun
examples: As a result, although corbinas commonly utilize mollusks, they are limited to the siphons, foot, or other soft parts that either extend from the shell or can be picked from it.
gloss: To transfer (liquid) by means of a siphon.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He used a rubber tube to siphon petrol from the car's fuel tank.
gloss: To transfer directly.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
transitive
examples: Today's teenagers are siphoning dangerous levels of membrane-damaging noise directly into their eardrums, with long-term effects that otologists prophesy will be disastrous for their hearing and lead to an epidemic of middle-aged deafness in the next thirty years.
gloss: To steal or skim off something, such as money, in small amounts; to embezzle.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
often
transitive
examples: In Juchipila power to the whole community of thirty thousand evaporated as the supraheavy grid buried alongside the little mountain cantina siphoned energy from the entire west-central portion of the Namerican national power net.
Attempting to “unfeel” whatever you feel is a huge drain on your energy, and that effort can siphon off the power you need to crunch your problem.
Artiles, a Republican operative with a reputation for a foul mouth and sharp elbows, is accused of financing a sham candidate whose candidacy was intended to siphon votes from a legitimate Democratic candidate in a state Senate race in South Florida’s 37th District. The candidate has the same last name as then-Democratic incumbent Jose Javier Rodriguez but did not actively campaign for the seat and has since admitted being recruited as a spoiler.
Related words: seep
sip
Derived words: antisiphon
jet siphon
microsiphon
prosiphon
pseudosiphon
siphonage
siphonal
siphonate
siphon condenser
siphon cup
siphoner
siphonet
siphonic
siphoniferous
siphoniform
siphonless
siphonlike
siphonostele
siphonous
siphon recorder
thermic siphon
thermosiphon
resiphon
siphonable
siphon the python
unsiphoned
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