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siphon
siphon is a 6-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A device, consisting of a pipe or tube bent so as to form two branches or legs of unequal length, by which a liquid can be transferred to a lower level, as from one vessel to another, over an intermediate elevation, by the action of the pressure of the atmosphere in forcing the liquid up the shorter branch of the pipe immersed in it, while the continued excess of weight of the liquid in the longer branch (when once filled) causes a continuous flow. The flow takes place only when the discharging extremity of the pipe ia lower than the higher liquid surface, and when no part of the pipe is higher above the surface than the same liquid will rise by atmospheric pressure; that is, about 33 feet for water, and 30 inches for mercury, near the sea level. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 12 · 14 senses
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- 1noun
A device, consisting of a pipe or tube bent so as to form two branches or legs of unequal length, by which a liquid can be transferred to a lower level, as from one vessel to another, over an intermediate elevation, by the action of the pressure of the atmosphere in forcing the liquid up the shorter branch of the pipe immersed in it, while the continued excess of weight of the liquid in the longer branch (when once filled) causes a continuous flow. The flow takes place only when the discharging extremity of the pipe ia lower than the higher liquid surface, and when no part of the pipe is higher above the surface than the same liquid will rise by atmospheric pressure; that is, about 33 feet for water, and 30 inches for mercury, near the sea level.
- 2noun
One of the tubes or folds of the mantle border of a bivalve or gastropod mollusk by which water is conducted into the gill cavity. See Illust. under Mya, and Lamellibranchiata.
- 3noun
The anterior prolongation of the margin of any gastropod shell for the protection of the soft siphon.
- 4noun
The tubular organ through which water is ejected from the gill cavity of a cephaloid. It serves as a locomotive organ, by guiding and confining the jet of water. Called also siphuncle. See Illust. under Loligo, and Dibranchiata.
- 5noun
The siphuncle of a cephalopod shell.
- 6noun
The sucking proboscis of certain parasitic insects and crustaceans.
- 7noun
A sproutlike prolongation in front of the mouth of many gephyreans.
- 8noun
A tubular organ connected both with the esophagus and the intestine of certain sea urchins and annelids.
- 9noun
A siphon bottle.
- 10transitive verb
To convey, or draw off, by means of a siphon, as a liquid from one vessel to another at a lower level.
- 11noun
a tubular organ in an aquatic animal (especially in mollusks) through which water can be taken in or expelled
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- 12noun
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
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- 13verb
move a liquid from one container into another by means of a siphon or a siphoning action
"siphon gas into the tank"
- 14verb
convey, draw off, or empty by or as if by a siphon
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