siphon

USAGE NOTE
This word may also be spelled "syphon."
siphon(
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A noun is a word referring to a person, animal, place, thing, feeling, or idea (e.g., man, dog, house).
noun
a. el sifón
(m) means that a noun is masculine. Spanish nouns have a gender, which is either feminine (like la mujer or la luna) or masculine (like el hombre or el sol).
(M)
The workers used a siphon to remove the liquid.Los obreros usaron un sifón para sacar el líquido.
A transitive verb is a verb that requires a direct object (e.g., I bought a book.).
transitive verb
a. sacar con sifón
The poor wretch thought that he was siphoning gas from the RV, but it was sewage.El pobre desgraciado pensó que estaba sacando gasolina con sifón de la casa rodante, pero eran aguas negras.
a. desviar
One of the executives had been siphoning company money to an outside account for years.Uno de los ejecutivos llevaba años desviando fondos de la empresa a una cuenta externa.
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