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  • noun Plural form of syphon.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of syphon.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    Can a New Communism Save the World? 2008

  • 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

  • Anyway, these clam's syphons are unnatural -- even for geoducks.

    Crisis in the North: Pig War II 2006

  • 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

  • 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.

    Tales of the Jazz Age 2003

  • 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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