Siphon vs Evacuate - What's the difference?
siphon | evacuate |
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.
a soda siphon
(biology) a tubelike organ found in animals or elongated cell found in plants.
to transfer (liquid) by means of a siphon.
To leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from; as, soldiers from a country, city, or fortress.
* Burke
To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of, including to create a vacuum; as, to evacuate a vessel or dish.
(figurative) To make empty; to deprive.
* Coleridge
To remove; to eject; to void; to discharge, as the contents of a vessel, or of the bowels.
To make void; to nullify; to vacate.
As verbs the difference between siphon and evacuate
is that siphon is to transfer (liquid) by means of a siphon while evacuate is to leave or withdraw from; to quit; to retire from; as, soldiers from a country, city, or fortress.As a noun siphon
is 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.siphon
English
(wikipedia siphon)Alternative forms
* syphonNoun
(en noun)Derived terms
* siphonicVerb
(en verb)- He used a rubber tube to siphon petrol from the car's fuel tank.
See also
* seep * sip ----evacuate
English
Verb
(evacuat)- The firefighters told us to evacuate the area as the flames approached.
- The Norwegians were forced to evacuate the country.
- The scientist evacuated the chamber before filling it with nitrogen.
- Evacuate the Scriptures of their most important meaning.
- to evacuate a contract or marriage
- (Francis Bacon)