pour
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English pouren (“to pour”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old Northern French purer (“to sift (grain), pour out (water)”), from Latin pūrō (“to purify”), from pūrus (“pure”). Compare Middle Dutch afpuren (“to pour off, drain”).
To pour displaced several Middle English verbs:
* schenchen, schenken (“to pour”), from Old English sċenċan (“to pour out”) and Old Norse skenkja, from Proto-Germanic *skankijaną. Compare dialectal English shink, skink.
* yeten, from Old English ġēotan (“to pour”), from Proto-Germanic *geutaną.
* birlen (“to pour, serve drink to”), from Old English byrelian (“to pour, serve drink to”).
* hellen (“to pour, pour out”), from Old Norse hella (“to pour out, incline”).
* temen (“to pour out, empty”), from Old Norse tœma (“to pour out, empty”). Compare archaic English teem.
Inflected forms:
form: pours
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pouring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: poured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: poured
pos: verb
tags: past
form: pours
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To cause (liquid, or liquid-like substance) to flow in a stream, either out of a container or into it.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: pour water from a jug
pour wine into a decanter
to pour oil onto chips
to pour out sand or dust.
gloss: To send out as in a stream or a flood; to cause (an emotion) to come out; to cause to escape.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: My teacher poured scorn on my attempts at writing.
How London doth pour out her citizens.
[…] I haue drunke neither wine nor strong drinke, but haue powred out my soule before the Lord.
Now will I shortly powre out my furie vpon thee, and accomplish mine anger vpon thee[…]
Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth / With such a full and unwithdrawing hand?
At the same time, it is pouring money into cleaning up the country.
gloss: To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat?
gloss: To flow, pass, or issue in a stream; to fall continuously and abundantly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: the rain poured down.
The rain came pouring down
When I was drownin', that's when I could finally breathe
gloss: To rain hard.
pos: verb
tags: impersonal
examples: It's pouring outside.
gloss: Of a beverage, to be on tap or otherwise available for serving to customers.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To move in a throng, as a crowd.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The people poured out of the theater.
In the rude throng pour on with furious pace.
The bluebloods of golf began pouring into the sweltering nation’s capital yesterday for the 64th U.S. Open championship, and the hottest topic was not Arnold Palmer or Jack Nicklaus, but Champagne Tony Lema.
In a breathless finish Arsenal poured forward looking for a winner but Leeds held out for a deserved replay after Bendtner wastefully fired wide and Schmeichel acrobatically kept out Denilson's rasping effort
gloss: To move (a drunk or unsteady person) into or out of a place or vehicle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She poured him into a taxi and handed the driver the fare.
“Was he really drunk?” I asked. “He was stiff!” Bill Garrison told us from the steps. “We just poured him into the car and Mavis took him home.”
When Coop poured himself out of the cab and staggered towards the house, he already knew he'd hate himself in the morning.
Did any of you order a furious posh man? […] Very cross, very drunk. Phil poured him into your departure hut.
When Tony got in he listened to her going on incoherently about how Aiden had finally fucked up and, as always, he agreed with her and poured her into bed.
gloss: The act of pouring.
pos: noun
examples: The bartender's inexpert pour left me with a pint of beer that was half foam.
gloss: Something, or an amount, poured.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A downpour; a flood of precipitation.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: 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.
Derived words: med pour
rainpour
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