Dictionary definition of 'siphon' has been wrong for nearly a century

ေအာက္စဖုိ ့အဘိဓါန္ရဲ ့အမွားကုိ ႏွစ္ေပါင္း ၉၉ ႏွစ္ႀကာသည္အထိမၿပဳၿပင္ခဲ ့...

ႀသစေတးလ်နုိင္ငံမွ ရူပေဗဒကထိက တစ္ဦးဟာ ၉၉ ႏွစ္တုိင္တုိင္ ေအာက္စဖုိ ့အဂၤလိပ္အဘိဓါန္ထဲမွာ
" siphon " ဆုိတဲ ့စကားလံုးကုိ မွားယြင္းစြာအဓိပၸါယ္ဖြင္ ့ဆုိထားခဲ ့တာကုိ သတိၿပဳေတြ ့ရွိခဲ ့ပါတယ္...
ႀသစေတးလ်နုိင္ငံ၊ ဘရစ္စ္ဘိန္းနည္းပညာတကၠသိုလ္မွ ေဒါက္တာစတီဖင္ဟူးစ္ ဟာ သိပၸံနည္းပညာ
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ရတယ္...( အရည္မ်ားၿမင္ ့ရာမွနိမ္ ့ရာသုိ ့အလုိအေလ်ာက္စီးဆင္းေစၿခင္း ) လို ့မွားယြင္းစြာေဖာ္ၿပထား
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ပုိင္းကတစ္ဆင္ ့အရည္ေတြကုိစုပ္ယူေရြ ့ေၿပာင္းတာ ကမာၻေၿမဆဲြအားေႀကာင္ ့ၿဖစ္ပါတယ္...( ၿပင္ပေလ
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လုိ ့၎ကေၿပာႀကားခဲ ့ပါတယ္...

ထုိမွားယြင္းစြာ အဓိပၸါယ္ဖြင္ ့ဆုိခဲ ့တဲ ့စကားလံုး ( siphon ) ကုိ ၁၉၁၁ ခုႏွစ္မွာစတင္ပံုႏွိပ္ေဖာ္ၿပခဲ ့ၿပီး ထုိ
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An Australian physics lecturer has spotted a 99-year-old mistake in the definition of the word "siphon" in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). Dr Stephen Hughes, from the University of Technology in Brisbane, noticed that the error in the dictionary during research for an article for science teachers.
The OED definition of the word erroneously states that atmospheric pressure makes siphons work, when in fact it is the force of gravity. Siphons draw fluid from a higher location to a lower one and are often used to remove liquid from containers, such as petrol tanks, that are hard to empty otherwise.
Dr Hughes said he was stunned when he realised that the dictionary had got the definition wrong. "It is gravity that moves the fluid in a siphon, with the water in the longer downward arm pulling the water up the shorter arm," Dr Hughes said. "We would all have an issue if the dictionary defined a koala as a species of bear, or a rose as a tulip," he said.
The error was introduced in 1911 and has gone unchallenged ever since. An OED spokesman said the definition was written in 1911 by "editors who were not scientists" and that Dr Hughes's notes would be taken into account when the entry was rewritten.