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Siphon   /sˈaɪfən/   Listen
Siphon

verb
1.
Convey, draw off, or empty by or as if by a siphon.  Synonyms: siphon off, syphon.
2.
Move a liquid from one container into another by means of a siphon or a siphoning action.






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"Siphon" Quotes from Famous Books



... well-lit quarters, where on a mahogany sideboard was a tray holding decanter, siphon, and glasses, together with a bottle of ginger ale. The captain, after he had mixed a beverage for his passenger, opened the bottle for himself. ...
— The Iron Trail • Rex Beach

... the table where the smoking things were and the decanter of whiskey and siphon of soda. "Let me have a look...." He picked up the decanter and held it to the light. "The last time I looked at it, it came just to the top of the design here,—and it does yet. Yes, ...
— Play the Game! • Ruth Comfort Mitchell

... blood pressure now when it's so infernally hot and you've work ahead. Hunch," he added carelessly to the admiring henchman who had once dealt away successive slices of his inheritance, "go get a pitcher of ice water and rustle up another siphon of seltzer and some whiskey. Likely His Nibs and I will play chess ...
— Diane of the Green Van • Leona Dalrymple

... the damsel behind the bar, and I have seldom been more surprised than I was when she produced a siphon. After that we went ...
— A Padre in France • George A. Birmingham

... the bottom, to the depth of two inches, and ten gallons of sea-water were then poured in. This had been brought from one of the wharves, at high tide, twenty-four hours previously, and twice drawn off with a siphon,—each time after twelve hours' rest. It was not, however, perfectly translucent, and at the end of a week was still cloudy. On the fifth day after the tank was filled, I began to introduce the animals to their ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, February, 1858 • Various

... comfortable myself," she said. She pulled a big armchair round; placed a reading-lamp on a small table and drew it close; and she made the old soldier sit in the chair. Then she unlocked a little cupboard, and got out a decanter and siphon and glass, and a box of cigars. She placed these by his side, and stood back quizzically a second. Then she threw a big leather cushion at his feet and walked to the switches, turning off the main ...
— Simon Called Peter • Robert Keable

... the country club alone, with a siphon and a fancy, square, black bottle, sat Judge Thomas Van Dorn. He was in his shirt sleeves. His wilted collar, grimy and bedraggled, lay on the floor beside him. He was laughing at something not visible to the ...
— In the Heart of a Fool • William Allen White

... and gold Louis Quinze table, a lovely antique, now sacrilegiously desecrated with marks of glasses and the scars of cigar-stumps. On it stood a silver tray of smokables and a burnished spirit-stand, from which and an adjacent siphon my silent host proceeded to charge two high glasses. Having indicated an arm-chair to me and placed my refreshment near it, he handed me a long, smooth Havana. Then, seating himself opposite to me, he looked at me ...
— The Lost World • Arthur Conan Doyle

... top-milk may be removed in as short a time as four hours. In the case of bottled milk it makes little difference if it stands a longer time, even until the next day. The best means of removing it is by a small cream-dipper[2] holding one ounce; although it may be taken off by a spoon or siphon. It should not be ...
— The Care and Feeding of Children - A Catechism for the Use of Mothers and Children's Nurses • L. Emmett Holt

... Jurassic Period of pictures, so to speak, this little group of pathfinders tracking under the chieftainship of Mr. Lobel into almost uncharted wilds of artistic endeavor had dabbled in slap-stick one reelers featuring the plastic pie and the treacherous seltzer siphon, also the trick staircase, the educated ...
— Sundry Accounts • Irvin S. Cobb

... univalves can seal themselves inside with an operculum, which covers the open end of the shell like a trap door. Although shells take on many different shapes, they are much alike inside. Each has a foot, a breathing siphon, a tiny brain and heart, and a fleshy mantle which secretes lime for shell-building. Most true mollusks have eyes, but a few are blind. Many ...
— Let's collect rocks & shells • Shell Oil Company

... The lights were on, and I was on the floor, with old Bill kneeling beside me with a soda siphon. ...
— My Man Jeeves • P. G. Wodehouse



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



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