pour

[pawr, pohr] /pɔr, poʊr/
verb (used with object)
1.
to send (a liquid, fluid, or anything in loose particles) flowing or falling, as from one container to another, or into, over, or on something:
to pour a glass of milk; to pour water on a plant.
2.
to emit or propel, especially continuously or rapidly:
The hunter poured bullets into the moving object.
3.
to produce or utter in or as in a stream or flood (often followed by out):
to pour out one's troubles to a friend.
verb (used without object)
4.
to issue, move, or proceed in great quantity or number:
Crowds poured from the stadium after the game.
5.
to flow forth or along; stream:
Floodwaters poured over the embankments.
6.
to rain heavily (often used impersonally with it as subject):
It was pouring, but fortunately we had umbrellas.
noun
7.
the act of pouring.
8.
an abundant or continuous flow or stream:
a pour of invective.
9.
a heavy fall of rain.
Origin
1300-50; Middle English pouren; origin uncertain
Related forms
pourable, adjective
pourability, noun
pourer, noun
pouringly, adverb
interpour, verb (used with object)
repour, verb (used with object)
transpour, verb (used with object)
unpourable, adjective
unpoured, adjective
Can be confused
pause, paws, pores, pours.
Examples from the web for pour
  • Do not heat anything in plastic containers neither pour hot meals into them.
  • pour the custard mixture into the caramel-coated mold.
  • Clear cups, with pour spouts, are primarily for liquids.
  • pour alcohol-free, water-soluble hair gel in a bowl.
  • First-year students pour concrete beams and use acoustic technology to scan them for hidden cracks.
  • Thousands pour into the streets as their city shakes again.
  • Make a well in the center of the flour mixture and pour the warm water in the center of the well.
  • Before you pour milk on them, these marshmallows have vaguely key-shaped dents in them.
  • Another month, another study that seems to pour cold water on the still-fiery podcast phenomenon.
  • pour the hot syrup over baked pudding until it is completely absorbed.
British Dictionary definitions for pour

pour

/pɔː/
verb
1.
to flow or cause to flow in a stream
2.
(transitive) to issue, emit, etc, in a profuse way
3.
Also pour with rain, (intransitive) often foll by down. to rain heavily: it's pouring down outside
4.
(intransitive) to move together in large numbers; swarm
5.
(intransitive) to serve tea, coffee, etc: shall I pour?
6.
it never rains but it pours, events, esp unfortunate ones, come together or occur in rapid succession
7.
(informal) pour cold water on, to be unenthusiastic about or discourage
8.
pour oil on troubled waters, to try to calm a quarrel, etc
noun
9.
a pouring, downpour, etc
Derived Forms
pourer, noun
Usage note
The verbs pour and pore are sometimes confused: she poured cream over her strudel; she pored (not poured) over the manuscript
Word Origin
C13: of unknown origin
Word Origin and History for pour
v.

c.1300, of unknown origin, not in Old English; perhaps from Old French (Flanders dialect) purer "to sift (grain), pour out (water)," from Latin purare "to purify," from purus "pure" (see pure). Replaced Old English geotan. Intransitive sense from 1530s. Related: Poured; pouring; pourable. As a noun from 1790.

Idioms and Phrases with pour

pour

also see:
it never rains but it pours