Meanings
plural syphons
- alternativeAlternative spelling of siphon.
It appears to me that something of this kind might be effected by means of a syphon.
1846, editorial staff, “Perpetual Motion”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 2, Issue 13, page 101
present singular third person syphons · participle present syphoning · participle past syphoned · past syphoned
- alternativeAlternative spelling of siphon.
It takes only a moment and a toe, the warning goes, and death will sink its teeth into your foot, and death will syphon the blood from your veins, to satisfy its phantoms and its ghosts.
2022, Jim Crace, eden, Picador, page 13
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna tube running from the liquid in a vessel to a lower level outside the vessel so that gravity forces the liquid through the tube
nouna tubular organ in an aquatic animal (especially in mollusks) through which water can be taken in or expelled
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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Cite this entry
syphon. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/syphon
“syphon.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/syphon. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “syphon,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/syphon.
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