Pour

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English

Verb

Pour (third-person singular simple present Pours, present participle Pouring, simple past and past participle Poured)

  1. (transitive) To cause to flow in a stream, as a liquid or anything flowing like a liquid, either out of a vessel or into it
  2. (transitive) To send forth as in a stream or a flood; to emit; to let escape freely or wholly.
  3. (transitive) To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly.
  4. (intransitive) To flow, pass or issue in or as a stream; to fall continuously and abundantly; as, the rain pours.

Noun

Pour (plural Pours)
  1. The act of pouring.
  2. Something, or an amount, poured.
  3. (colloquial) A stream, or something like a stream; especially a flood of precipitation.

Adverbs for Pour

unceasingly; incessantly; liberally; hospitably; effusively; unstlntlngly; hysterically; liquidly; melodiously; insatiably.

Thesaurus

Niagara, abound, accord, administer, afford, allot, allow, award, bail, beat, bestow, bestow on, blow out, brash, bristle with, bucket, burst of rain, cascade, cast forth, cataclysm, cataract, cloudburst, communicate, confer, course, crawl with, creep with, crowd, cup, deal, deal out, debouch, decant, deluge, dip, discharge, disembogue, disgorge, dish, dish out, dish up, dispense, dole, dole out, donate, downfall, downflow, downpour, drain, drain out, drench, drencher, drizzle, drum, ebb, ejaculate, emerge, emit, empty, eruct, erupt, exhaust, expel, extend, extravasate, exuberate, fall, find vent, flood, flooding, flow, flow back, flow in, flow out, flush, fork, fork out, fresh, freshet, gift, gift with, give, give freely, give off, give out, go forth, grant, gush, gush out, gushing rain, hand out, heap, heavy rain, help to, impart, inundate, inundation, issue, issue forth, jet, ladle, lash, lavish, let have, let out, make, mete, mete out, mizzle, offer, outflow, outpour, overflow, patter, pelt, pitter-patter, plash, pour forth, pour out, pour with rain, precipitate, present, proceed, proffer, proliferate, rain, rain tadpoles, rainburst, rainspout, rainstorm, regurgitate, render, rill, river, roll, run, run out, run over, rush, sally forth, scoop, scud, send forth, send out, serve, set, shell out, shovel, shower, shower down, slip, sluice, sluice out, snow, soaker, soaking rain, spade, spate, spatter, spew, spew out, spit, spoon, spout, spout out, spring, sprinkle, spurt, squirt, stream, surge, surge back, swarm, swarm with, tattoo, teem, teem with, tender, throng, throw out, torrent, torrent of rain, trend, void, vomit forth, vouchsafe, waterflood, waterspout, weep, well, well out, yield

Etymology

From Middle English pouren, pouren (“to pour”). Origin uncertain. Likely of Celtic origin, from Celtic base *{{ Template:Cel/script |purr-| face=term | lang=cel }} (“to jerk, throw (water)”). Akin to Welsh bwrw (“to cast; to strike; to rain”), Scottish Gaelic purr (“to push, thrust, urge, drive”), Irish purraim (“I push, I jerk”).

Displaced native Middle English schenchen, schenken (“to pour”) (from Old English scencan (“to pour out”)), ȝeoten, yetten (“to pour”) (from Old English ġēotan (“to pour”)), temen (“to pour out, empty”) (from Old Norse tǿma (“to pour out, empty”)), 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”)).

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Verb

to cause to flow in a stream
to send forth as in a stream or a flood
to send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly
to flow, pass or issue in or as a stream

Noun

a stream, or something like a stream; a flood
a flood of precipitation

French

Preposition

Pour

  1. for
    J'ai un cadeau pour toi.
    I've got a gift for you.
  2. to
    Je veux chanter pour te faire revenir.
    I want to sing to make you come back.

Etymology

From Old French por, from Latin pro

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Romansch

Noun 1

Pour m. (plural Pours)

  1. (Surmiran) peasant, farmer
Alternative forms
  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter) pur
  • (Vallader) paur

Noun 2

Pour m. (plural Pours)

  1. (Surmiran, chess) pawn
Alternative forms
  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter, Vallader) pur

Etymology

Of Germanic origin, cognate with German Bauer, Dutch boer.

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