transcription, транскрипция: [ saɪf(ə)n ]
also syphon
( siphons, siphoning, siphoned)
1.
If you siphon liquid from a container, you make it come out through a tube and down into a lower container by enabling the pressure of the air on it to push it out.
She puts a piece of plastic tubing in her mouth and starts siphoning gas from a huge metal drum...
VERB : V n prep
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Siphon off means the same as siphon .
Surgeons siphoned off fluid from his left lung...
PHRASAL VERB : V P n (not pron) , also V n P
2.
A siphon is a tube that you use for siphoning liquid.
N-COUNT
3.
If you siphon money or resources from something, you cause them to be used for a purpose for which they were not intended.
He had siphoned thousands of pounds a week from the failing business...
VERB : V n prep
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Siphon off means the same as siphon .
He had siphoned off a small fortune in aid money from the United Nations.
PHRASAL VERB : V P n (not pron) , also V n P