Definition of "pour"

pour¹

/pɔː/

verb
third-person singular simple present pours, present participle pouring, simple past and past participle poured
1. (transitive) To cause (liquid, or liquid-like substance) to flow in a stream, either out of a container or into it.
2. (transitive, figurative) To send out as in a stream or a flood; to cause (an emotion) to come out; to cause to escape.
  Quotations
  How London doth pour out her citizens.
  1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, prologue]
  […] I haue drunke neither wine nor strong drinke, but haue powred out my soule before the Lord.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1 Samuel 1:15
  Now will I shortly powre out my furie vpon thee, and accomplish mine anger vpon thee […]
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Ezekiel 7:8
  Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth / With such a full and unwithdrawing hand?
  1637, John Milton, A Mask presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634, lines 710-711
  At the same time, it is pouring money into cleaning up the country.
  2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848
3. (transitive) To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly.
  Quotations
  Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat?
  1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: Printed for J[ohn] Wilford, […]
4. (intransitive) To flow, pass or issue in a stream; to fall continuously and abundantly.
5. (impersonal) To rain hard.
6. (intransitive) Of a beverage, to be on tap or otherwise available for serving to customers.
7. (intransitive) To move in a throng, as a crowd.
  Quotations
  In the rude throng pour on with furious pace.
  1716, John Gay, Trivia: Or, The Art of Walking the Streets of London
  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.
  1964 June 16, “All Eyes On Lema At U.S. Open This Week”, in The Indianapolis Star, volume 62, number 11, Indianapolis, Ind., page 22
  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
  2011 January 8, Chris Bevan, “Arsenal 1-1 Leeds”, in BBC
noun
plural pours
1. The act of pouring.
2. Something, or an amount, poured.
  Quotations
  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.
  2003, John Brian Newman, B. S. Choo, Advanced concrete technology: Volume 2
  HS2 Ltd has completed the first base-slab concrete pour at the western end of Old Oak Common station.
  2023 June 14, “Network News: Concrete for Old Oak Common - and consent for Curzon Street viaduct”, in RAIL, number 985, page 22
3. (colloquial) A downpour, or flood of precipitation.
  Quotations
  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.
  1831, Susan Ferrier, Destiny; or, the Chief's Daughter‎, page 84
  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.
  1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, Olympia Press

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/pɔː/

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1. Misspelling of pore.

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