SYPHONS Synonyms

• socks and stockings and tights collectively (the British include underwear)

• man's close-fitting garment of the 16th and 17th centuries covering the legs and reaching up to the waist; worn with a doublet

• a flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas

• water with a hose

• measuring instrument consisting of a graduated glass tube used to measure or transfer precise volumes of a liquid by drawing the liquid up into the tube

• a tube running from the liquid in a vessel to a lower level outside the vessel so that gravity forces the liquid through the tube

• a tubular organ in an aquatic animal (especially in mollusks) through which water can be taken in or expelled

• convey, draw off, or empty by or as if by a siphon

• move a liquid from one container into another by means of a siphon or a siphoning action

• conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases

• electronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope

• a hollow cylindrical shape

• (anatomy) any hollow cylindrical body structure

• an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city)

• provide with a tube or insert a tube into

• convey in a tube

• ride or float on an inflated tube

• place or enclose in a tube

• a tube running from the liquid in a vessel to a lower level outside the vessel so that gravity forces the liquid through the tube

• a tubular organ in an aquatic animal (especially in mollusks) through which water can be taken in or expelled

• convey, draw off, or empty by or as if by a siphon

• move a liquid from one container into another by means of a siphon or a siphoning action

• convey, draw off, or empty by or as if by a siphon