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Definition of Syphon

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

2. Noun. A tube running from the liquid in a vessel to a lower level outside the vessel so that atmospheric pressure forces the liquid through the tube.

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

Definition of Syphon

1. n. See Syphon.

Definition of Syphon

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of siphon) ¹

2. Verb. (alternative spelling of siphon) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Syphon

1. to siphon [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: siphon

Lexicographical Neighbors of Syphon

syphilitics syphilization syphilizations syphilize syphilized syphilizes syphilizing syphiloderm syphiloderms syphiloid

syphilological syphilologist syphilologists syphilology syphilophobia syphon (current term) syphon the python syphoned syphoning syphons

syphs syping syrah syrahs syren syrens syrette syrettes syringa syringas

Literary usage of Syphon

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Elements of Physics; Or, Natural Philosophy, General and Medical: Comoprised by Neil Arnott (1856)
"The syphon is very useful for drawing off liquids, where there is a sediment that ... A large syphon would empty a lake or mill-pond over its bank without ..."

2. Elements of Physics, Or, Natural Philosophy, General and Medical: Explained by Neil Arnott (1831)
"The syphon-paradox may be exhibited by reversing the apparatus of the bellows. If this apparatus be filled with water in the ordinary way (see page 219,) ..."

3. The Farmers' Cabinet, and American Herd-book (1847)
"The fall of water requisite to work it being very email, I continued to increase it by the improvement which I am form of a syphon and carried over the ..."

4. Ferguson's Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics by James Ferguson (1806)
"I. Let a hole be made quite through the bottom of the cup A, and the longer leg of the bended syphon DEBG be cemented into the hole, so that the end D of ..."

5. Elements of Technology: Taken Chiefly from a Course of Lectures Delivered at by Jacob Bigelow (1831)
"syphon.—The syphon may be regarded as an instrument for the lateral ... The syphon is a bent tube, of which one extremity, or leg, is longer than the other. ..."

6. An Introduction to Natural Philosophy: Designed as a Text Book, for the Use by Denison Olmsted (1853)
"THE syphon.—If a tube having two F*S- 202- arms, a longer and a shorter, be filled with water, or any other liquid, and the mouth of the shorter arm be ..."

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