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- noun Plural form of
syphon . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
syphon .
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Examples
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Such seal-pots or "syphons" are commonly used on ordinary gas-distributing systems, and might be applied in the case of large acetylene installations, as they offer facilities for removing the condensed water from time to time in a convenient and expeditious manner.
Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use W. J. Atkinson Butterfield
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Fortunately, they had pushed in two bottles of whiskey and some soda-syphons; I just dosed them all around until it was finished.
Archive 2009-12-01 Victoria Janssen 2009
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Well before Starbucks arrived, syphons began disappearing in large numbers due to the cost of providing the coffee.
It's the coffee! Ann Althouse 2008
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Until a few years ago,almost all coffee houses in Japan made each cup of coffee individually in syphons like those.
It's the coffee! Ann Althouse 2008
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Working in real-time through the already established electronic banking system it syphons off a very small amount of every transaction (or movement) of money and redistributes it in an even manner to each person in the economy.
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It provides no service — in fact it actively works to eliminate people from the system — and simply syphons off money in the middle.
Think Progress » Senate Multimillionares Vote To Block Minimum Wage Hike 2007
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Anyway, these clam's syphons are unnatural -- even for geoducks.
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The white busts and the little tables in the background covered with copies of the Tatler and syphons of soda water seemed to approve; seemed to indicate the flowing corn and the manor houses of England; and to return the frail hum of the motor wheels as the walls of a whispering gallery return a single voice expanded and made sonorous by the might of a whole cathedral.
Mrs. Dalloway 2003
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There were long walls of alternating bottles set along two white covered tables; whiskey, gin, brandy, French and Italian vermouths, and orange juice, not to mention an array of syphons and two great empty punch bowls.
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For them to operate in a purely passive way, all these water and air-loop systems, also called thermo-syphons, require placing the collector at a lower level than the heat outlet, for them to operate in a purely passive way.
3. Design rules 1993
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