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Meanings of syphon in English

Portuguese
sifão
Catalan
sifó

A tubular organ in an aquatic animal (especially in mollusks) through which water can be taken in or expelled.

        sifão

        Convey, draw off, or empty by or as if by a siphon.

              Usage of syphon in English
              1
              His eye fell on a tray bearing a decanter and a syphon.
              Mike
              2
              She carried also syphon-pumps capable of raising any vessel that might sink.
              The Gulf and Inland Waters / The Navy in the Civil War. Volume 3...
              3
              The syphon, beneath Eliot's sudden pressure, squirted out a torrent of soda.
              The Vision of Desire
              4
              There's quite a few gangs try to syphon our software fleks.
              The Naked God
              5
              He held the soda-water syphon in his hand, as though measuring its contents.
              The Lost Ambassador; Or, The Search For The Missing Delora
              6
              I paused, my hand on the syphon, reflecting for a moment.
              The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu
              7
              Rickman's hand closed fiercely over the top of a soda-water syphon.
              The Divine Fire
              8
              Senator, may I trouble you to depress the business end of that syphon?
              The Statesmen Snowbound
              9
              When I returned with the syphon he was engaged in conversation over the wire.
              The Woman in Black
              10
              A sufficient supply of whisky and a syphon of soda-water were set before them.
              Hyacinth
              11
              Jean brought the bottle and the glasses and two ten-franc saucers with the syphon.
              A Moveable Feast
              12
              Open the pet cock at the top of the syphon before taking the hose down.
              The Traveling Engineers' Association to Improve the Locomotive E...
              13
              Keeps a syphon wid de figgurs on de slate-dequeerest figgurs I ebber did see.
              Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
              14
              A theatrical success is a syphon-itpumps in the crowd and creates emptiness all round.
              The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
              15
              And den he keep a syphon all de time-
              Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
              16
              He flourished a half-empty syphon of lemonade, threatening the handle with a very square thumb.
              Far to Seek / A Romance of England and India
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              Translations for syphon
              Portuguese
              sifão
              Catalan
              sifó
              Syphon through the time
              Syphon across language varieties
              United Kingdom
              Common