pour

UK /pɔː/ US /pɔː/
verb 6noun 3

Definitions

verb

1

To cause (liquid, or liquid-like substance) to flow in a stream, either out of a container or into it.

pour water from a jug

pour wine into a decanter

2

To send out as in a stream or a flood; to cause (an emotion) to come out; to cause to escape.

My teacher poured scorn on my attempts at writing.

How London doth pour out her citizens.

3

To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly.

Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat?

4

To flow, pass, or issue in a stream; to fall continuously and abundantly.

the rain poured down.

The rain came pouring down When I was drownin', that's when I could finally breathe

5

To rain hard.

It's pouring outside.

noun

1

The act of pouring.

The bartender's inexpert pour left me with a pint of beer that was half foam.

2

Something, or an amount, poured.

Over this time period, the first concrete pour has not only lost workability but has started to set so that it is no longer affected by the action of a vibrator.

HS2 Ltd has completed the first base-slab concrete pour at the western end of Old Oak Common station.

3

A downpour; a flood of precipitation.

Then, as if to give the lie to the offensive insinuation, he mounted his horse, and rode home ten miles in a pour of rain, without a great coat or umbrella.

But then one of Mr. Knott's men would have had to put on his coat and hat and turn out, as likely as not in the pitch dark, and in torrents of rain in all probability, and grope his way in the dark in the pours of rain, with the pot of food in his hand, a wretched and ridiculous figure, to where the dog lay.

verb

1

Misspelling of pore.

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