Everyday, politicians siphon money from tax-payers.
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Siphon
//ˈsaɪfən//
Synonyms for "siphon" (87 found)
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61 translations across 23 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- سَيْفون noun (bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other)
- سِيفُون noun (bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other)
Bulgarian
2 entries- сифон noun (bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other)
- преливам verb (transfer by means of a siphon)
Catalan
2 entries- sifó noun (bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other)
- sifó noun (tubelike organ found in animals or elongated cell found in plants)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 水管 noun (bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other)
- 虹吸 noun (bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other)
- 虹吸管 noun (bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other)
Czech
4 entries- násoska noun (bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other)
- vycucnout verb (transfer by means of a siphon)
- vycucnout verb (steal or skim off in small amounts)
- vysát verb (transfer by means of a siphon)
Dutch
1 entries- hevel noun (bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other)
Finnish
2 entries- lappo noun (bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other)
- lappaa verb (transfer by means of a siphon)
French
3 entries- siphon noun (bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other)
- siphonner verb (transfer by means of a siphon)
- siphonner verb (steal or skim off in small amounts)
German
4 entries- Heber noun (bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other)
- abhebern verb (transfer by means of a siphon)
- absahnen verb (steal or skim off in small amounts)
- unterschlagen verb (steal or skim off in small amounts)
Hebrew
2 entries- גישתה noun (bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other)
- סיפון noun (bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other)
Hungarian
4 entries- hébér noun (bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other)
- leszívócső noun (bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other)
- lopó noun (bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other)
- szifon noun (bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other)
Irish
2 entries- siofón noun (bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other)
- siofón verb (transfer by means of a siphon)
Italian
1 entries- sifone noun (bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other)
Japanese
2 entries- サイフォン noun (bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other)
- 水管 noun (bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other)
Korean
1 entries- 사이폰 noun (bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other)
Persian
3 entries- آببرا noun (bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other)
- آبشویه noun (bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other)
- سیفون noun (bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other)
Polish
3 entries- lewar noun (bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other)
- syfon noun (bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other)
- syfon noun (tubelike organ found in animals or elongated cell found in plants)
Portuguese
1 entries- sifão noun (bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other)
Russian
1 entries- сифо́н noun (bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other)
Spanish
2 entries- sifón noun (bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other)
- sifonar verb (transfer by means of a siphon)
Swedish
2 entries- hävert noun (bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other)
- sifon noun (bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other)
Tajik
3 entries- оббаро noun (bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other)
- обшӯя noun (bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other)
- сифон noun (bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other)
Thai
1 entries- กาลักน้ำ noun (bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
The device is fitted with a rubber gasket that engineers hope will create a seal, so crews can siphon the oil and natural gas into a surface ship.
Source: tatoeba (11180624)
William used every trick in the book to siphon money from the company.
Source: tatoeba (11602360)
The asserted fact that free hydrochloric acid is absent from the fluid removed by a siphon in cases of cancer of the stomach has been lately much discussed in Germany, and Dr Van der Welden, of Strassburg, introduced an alcoholic solution of tropæolin as a test with this object.
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