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• n  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
• n  a tubular organ in an aquatic animal (especially in mollusks) through which water can be taken in or expelled
• v  convey, draw off, or empty by or as if by a siphon
• v  move a liquid from one container into another by means of a siphon or a siphoning action
  siphon gas into the tank

• About 130 feet in, the ceiling dipped into the water, forming what speleologists call a "siphon.
• China's new ports siphon trade away from the SAR, and its lower labor costs siphon away jobs, previously in manufacturing, now in services.
• Their grievances were clear: after having helped Omar Bongo squash his political opponents and allegedly siphon off a vast fortune from resource-rich Gabon's coffers, protesters .

• syphon
• siphon off

News & Articles

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• Alameda man's experience shows Prism lawsuits could be more frustrating than fruitful
  Before there was Edward Snowden, there was Mark Klein -- a telecommunications technician who alleged that AT&T was allowing U.S. spies to siphon vast amounts of customer data without warrants. That was seven years ago, and the warrantless collection continues, perhaps on an even greater scale.
  June 13, 2013 - San Jose Mercury News
• Lawsuits over government surveillance languish
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Before there was Edward Snowden and the leak of explosive documents showing widespread government surveillance, there was Mark Klein — a telecommunications technician who alleged that AT&T was allowing U.S. spies to siphon vast amounts of customer data without warrants.
  June 12, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Financial Repression Making Serfs Of The Masses
  Financial repression is the technique whereby governments extract wealth from the private sector and siphon it to themselves. To the unsophisticated it is invisible. Crudely, a government makes it impossible to get a fair return for private sector capital and by doing so channels resources to itself on the cheap. A financially repressive state, led by such a government, will have an inflation ...
  June 11, 2013 - Forbes

Quotes

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• Andrew Cuomo in Wall Street Journal
  This was a sham job-training program pure and simple with workers receiving no training and getting virtually no jobs,Mr. Cuomo said. "Espada ripped off his own community in order to maximize the amount of money he could siphon out of the...
• Janet Napolitano in AOL News
  Secretary Janet Napolitano told the Judiciary Committee that the law "will detract from and siphon resources that we need to focus on those in the country illegally who are committing the most serious crimes."
• G. Joseph Tauro in Keen News Service
  Tauro noted, in particular, that the Massachusetts case posed a "complex constitutional inquiry" about the power of the state to determine marital status versus "whether Congress may siphon off a portion of that traditionally state-held...