A tubular organ in an aquatic animal (especially in mollusks) through which water can be taken in or expelled.
Convey, draw off, or empty by or as if by a siphon.
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Examples for "siphon off "
Examples for "siphon off "
1 The cute design also has a tall chimney to siphon off smoke.
2 They have used monopolistic control to siphon off advertising revenues from news organizations.
3 He tried to use his flameweaving skills to siphon off their body heat.
4 It isn't right, someone like Tom, helping them siphon off half the river.
5 If he does, he can siphon off some of Pacquiao's stardom.
1 His eye fell on a tray bearing a decanter and a syphon .
2 She carried also syphon - pumps capable of raising any vessel that might sink.
3 The syphon , beneath Eliot's sudden pressure, squirted out a torrent of soda.
4 There's quite a few gangs try to syphon our software fleks.
5 He held the soda-water syphon in his hand, as though measuring its contents.
6 I paused, my hand on the syphon , reflecting for a moment.
7 Rickman's hand closed fiercely over the top of a soda-water syphon .
8 Senator, may I trouble you to depress the business end of that syphon ?
9 When I returned with the syphon he was engaged in conversation over the wire.
10 A sufficient supply of whisky and a syphon of soda-water were set before them.
11 Jean brought the bottle and the glasses and two ten-franc saucers with the syphon .
12 Open the pet cock at the top of the syphon before taking the hose down.
13 Keeps a syphon wid de figgurs on de slate-dequeerest figgurs I ebber did see.
14 A theatrical success is a syphon - it pumps in the crowd and creates emptiness all round.
15 And den he keep a syphon all de time-
16 He flourished a half-empty syphon of lemonade, threatening the handle with a very square thumb.
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