Word Finder - siphon

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A bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other, in which hydrostatic pressure exerted due to the force of gravity moves liquid from one reservoir to another.

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A soda siphon.

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A tubelike organ found in animals or elongated cell found in plants.

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To transfer (liquid) by means of a siphon.

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To steal or skim off in small amounts; to embezzle.

The Siphon bag is designed specifically for wheelchair users who have limited dexterity or balance.

In his Discorso intorno alle cose the stanno su l'acqua, published in 1612, he used the principle of virtual velocities to demonstrate the more important theorems of hydrostatics, deducing from it the equilibrium of fluid in a siphon, and proved against the Aristotelians that the floating of solid bodies in a liquid depends not upon their form, but upon their specific gravities relative to such liquid.

Water containing minute food particles is admitted through the incurrent siphon into the pharyngeal basket.

We did not siphon off nuclear material from internationally provided nuclear facilities.

A wire or fibre carrying the aluminium siphon cradle is stretched across this bridge piece, and on it is also mounted the small electromagnet, forming part of the " vibrator " arrangement with its hinged armature, to which one end of the stretched wire carrying the siphon is fastened.

The inversion of the proboscis is effected directly by the contraction of these a, Siphon.

Shell with numerous tuberculated whorls; aperture canaliculated anteriorly; short pallial siphon.

Shell conical; aperture slightly canaliculated; siphon slightly developed.

Shell elongated; aperture expanded; siphon very short.

Shell ventricose, with short spire, and wide aperture; no varices and no operculum; foot very broad, with projecting anterior angles; siphon long.

Shell turriculated, with numerous whorls; aperture and operculum oval; eyes at summits of tentacles; siphon long.

We could all wear this stuff then siphon it off into the national power supply.

No directory owner has the divine right to siphon off Google 's hard won search customers.

The ideal for this absorption process is to siphon off the excess heat in the room during the day and regulate the heat in the room so it's comfortable, not stifling.

Using a proprietary technology, these guards siphon water that rinses debris from the guards.

The game also had a rich storyline placing Samus Aran alone on planet Zebes to defeat a race of metroids, large jellyfish-like creatures that siphon life energy from their prey.

Using the vinyl tubing, siphon the wine from the top into the carboy.

Siphon the liquid into sterilized wine bottles, filling the bottles and leaving two inches for the cork.

This technique, which is known as gastric lavage, involves introducing 20 to 30 mL of tap water or 9 percent saline solution into the person's digestive tract and removing the stomach contents with a siphon or syringe.

Many Colts hold full time or part time jobs and some are even mothers or students; hence being a Colt cheerleader will not siphon all the time out of your week.

In the undulator apparatus, which is similar in general principle to the " siphon recorder " used in submarine telegraphy, a spring or falling weight moves a paper strip beneath one end of a fine silver tube, the other end of which dips into a vessel containing ink.

The siphon is supported on a vertical axle carrying two armatures which are acted upon by two electromagnets.

It is in fact the electromagnet and spindle of a telegraph relay with a siphon in place of the tongue.

Screw adjustments are provided for closing or opening the air gap between the electromagnets and armatures, for raising or lowering the siphon, and for adjusting the point of the siphon to the centre or side of the paper strip. The received signals are recorded on the paper strip in an undulating continuous line of ink, and are distinguished by the length of deviation from zero.

Two receiving instruments, a siphon recorder and a mirror galvanometer, are shown; one only is absolutely necessary, but it is convenient Cable to have the galvanometer ready, so that in case of accident to the recorder it may be at once switched into circuit by the switch s.

The spark recorder in some respects foreshadowed the more perfect instrument - the siphon recorder - which was introduced some years later.

A fine glass siphon tube is suspended with freedom to move in only one degree, and is connected with the signal-coil and moves with it.

The short leg of the siphon tube dips into an insulated ink-bottle, so' that the ink it contains becomes electrified, while the long leg has its open end at a very small distance from a brass table, placed with its surface parallel to the plane in which the mouth of the leg moves, and over which a slip of paper may be passed at a uniform rate, as in the spark recorder.

The ink is electrified by a small induction electrical machine E placed on the top of the instrument; this causes it to fall in very minute drops from the open end of the siphon tube upon the brass table or the paper slip passing over it.

When therefore the signalcoil moves in obedience to the electric signal-currents passed through it, the motion communicated to the siphon is recorded on the moving slip of paper by a wavy line of ink-marks very close together.

A very much simpler form of siphon recorder, constructed by Dr Muirhead, is now in general use.

Instruments of the siphon recorder type have been made to work both with and without electrification of the ink.

This magnet is excited by an alternating current, and the current induced in the second coil is after rectification sent through an ordinary siphon recorder.

As the direction and intensity of this induced current are a function of the position of the second coil in its field, and as this position is determined by its mechanical connexion with the recorder coil, it is evident that, by a suitable choice of the electrical elements of the second coil and its alternating field, the indications on the siphon recorder can be magnified to any reasonable extent.

In the same way the arrangements finally elaborated by Lodge and Muirhead consisted of a direct coupled antenna and nearly closed condenser circuit, and a similar receiving circuit containing as a detector the steel wheel revolving on oily mercury which actuated a siphon recorder writing signals on paper tape.

A cormidium may contain a single nutritive siphon (" monogastric ") or several siphons (" polygastric ").

The rhodalome of some Rhodalidae, consisting of siphon, tentacle and one or more gonophores.

The athorome of Physophora, &c., consisting of siphon, tentacle, one or more palpons with palpacles, and one or more gonophores.

The endoderm of the planula now acquires a cavity, and at the narrower pole a mouth is formed, giving rise to the primary siphon.

A Siphonophore is regarded as a single individual composed of numerous zoids, budded from the primary zoid (siphon) produced from the planula.

Thus a bract may be regarded, with Haeckel, as a modified umbrella of a medusa, a siphon as its manubrium, and a tentacle as representing a medusan tentacle shifted in attachment from the margin to the sub-umbrella; or a siphon may be compared with a polyp, of which the single tentacle has become shifted so as to be attached to the coenosarc and so on.

It must be pointed out that, however probable Haeckel's theory may be in other respects, there is not the slightest evidence for any such cleft in the umbrella having been present at any time, and that the embryological evidence, as already pointed out, is all against any homology between the stem and a manubrium, since the primary siphon does not become the stem, which arises from the ex-umbral side of the protocodon and is strictly comparable to a stolon.

Physalia, general view, diagrammatic; B, cormidium of Physalia; D, palpon; T, palpacle; G, siphon; GP, gonopalpon; M d', male gonophore; M y, female gonophore, ultimately set free.

In the latter a pallial siphon, a welldeveloped proboscis and an unpaired oesophageal gland are always present, in the former they are usually absent.

The siphon is an incompletely tubular outgrowth of the mantle margin on the left side, contained in a corresponding outgrowth of the edge of the shell-mouth, and serving to conduct water to the respiratory cavity.

Shell turriculated, with elongated spire; proboscis short; siphon rudimentary.

Shell elongated, with long siphon; lateral teeth of radula multicuspidate.

Shell ovoid, with short spire and folded columella; foot small, no operculum; siphon short.

Shell irregular; radula absent; foot and siphon short; sedentary animals, living in corals.

Head much flattened and wide, with eyes on sides; foot broad; siphon with internal appendages.