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siphon
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Word definitions for siphon in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Siphon \Si"phon\, v. t. (Chem.) To convey, or draw off, by means of a siphon, as a liquid from one vessel to another at a lower level.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Latin sipho (genitive siphonis ) "a siphon," from Greek siphon "pipe, tube for drawing wine from a cask," of unknown origin. Related: Siphonal .
Usage examples of siphon.
Beyond the flap, an elephant could be heard siphoning hay with a dry rustle over her back, and whining breathily as the cowardie checked her.
He had believed the millions he would siphon out of Doub Steel would influence Webb to award GEA the huge A-100 contract out of the black budget.
The siphons of the gukuy were generically similar to those of their owoc cousins.
American two-party system, invited to be loyal to one party or the other, their political energy thus siphoned into elections.
The vampire had held it down, bitten through its neck and siphoned off its living blood.
From their captive banks, Vial and Cruzat siphoned cash to buy up manufacturersthen leveraged these assets with loans from foreign investors panting to get their piece of the state giveaways.
It was a four-by-four-foot square, which hissed with a rush of siphoned air and opened at the behest of some hidden piston when he tugged a lever.
And if the Mages siphoned off a bit here and there to make their own lives easier, well, that was only fair.
Then I thought the swarming mosquitoes had siphoned off too much of my blood, leaving me light-headed.
Now, brooding over his sorrows, he lay on the laboratory couch and siphoned a highball down his throat.
Galloway, his lank form reclining under the liquor organ, siphoned a shot of double Martini into his mouth.
Data if any would be siphoned off from the transmissions that passed back and forth between the various computers.
Yet Philip was biding his time in prison, having the life siphoned out of him.
He felt her multiple orgasms at the cellular level, and as he siphoned the sweet, salty fluid from her jugular, her body siphoned seed from him in equal measure.
At the core of every vampire was a hunger for power, which rivaled their thirst for blood, and their razor-sharp minds siphoned and absorbed new information like a sponge.