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pour English

Meaning pour meaning

What does pour mean?
Definitions in simple English

pour Verb

— If you pour something, you let it flow from one place to another. — If something pours, it flows fast from one place to another. — If the rain pours, it is raining hard (a lot of rain is coming down fast).

pour Noun

— The act of pouring. Now that's a good pour of beer.

pour

— verb cause to run pour water over the floor — verb (= pullulate) move in large numbers people were pouring out of the theater beggars pullulated in the plaza — verb (= decant, pour out) pour out the sommelier decanted the wines — verb flow in a spurt Water poured all over the floor — verb supply in large amounts or quantities We poured money into the education of our children — verb rain heavily Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!

Synonyms pour synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as pour?

pour English » English

spill pour out shed flow stream fill scatter water sprinkle splash run gush irrigate dump overflow tip pour in drip throw serve rain cats and dogs rain buckets pour down pelt lash down flood decant waste transfer throw away teem take away surge spread shower let flow leak effuse drain beat down wash upsets turn over trickle throw out swarm spill out sieve run out rain

Topics pour topics

What do people use pour to talk about?
Universe, creation Water Movement of water

Pour
Physical actions Move something Move something in a direction

Take something out of something
Universe, creation Sky Weather

Rain
Universe, creation Water

Movement of water
Person Body functions

Bleed, blood
Physical actions Move Move in a direction Move down

Fall
Physical actions Move Accompany

Move together
Social behavior Behavior Do good to Meddle

Spoil
Daily life Food Food preparation

Steps in food preparation
Daily life Food Eat

Drink
Work and occupation Working with buildings Parts of a building

Foundation

Conjugation pour conjugation

How do you conjugate pour?

pour · verb

Examples pour examples

How do I use pour in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Don't pour hot water into the glass or it will crack.
Pour me a glass of wine.
Pour melted butter over the popcorn.
A waterfall of sweat began to pour down my face.
Please pour him a glass of beer.
Would you please pour me a cup of coffee?
Please don't pour sugar into my coffee.
Can you please pour me some more wine?
Scottish recipe for tomato soup: Pour hot water into a red cup.
Pour us a coffee and bring us the stuffed waffles!
I'll pour you a glass of wine.
Pour this kettle of hot tea over the frozen windshield.
Pour me a bit more wine, please!
Please pour me a little tea.
Pour me another cup of coffee and I'll eat another doughnut.
So what if you show up and she's not there and then it starts to pour?
You can pour the wine into the glass.
Why are you just sitting there? Pour the champagne!
You can always pour out your heart to a good friend.

Movie subtitles

Pour me a Guinness.
Pour me a shot, pour me another.
Jared. Pour yourself a glass.
Besides, I'm going to pour it over this sliced banana, so vitamin C will be involved.
Can I pour you some tea?
Here, let me pour you some of this absolutely delicious tea, and you will be right as rain in no time.
Sutton, I'm sure you understand that every penny I pour into my assistant's salary is a penny less I have to spend on the image, which is what sells this magazine.
I can drink it as long as you can pour it.
Water will pour in, when it rains.
Now pour!
Every time they make a joke, a million francs pour in.
So pour yourself a brandy and pull yourself together.
No siree, I'm gonna sit up with that two-legged cactus. and pour water into him until lilies sprout out of both his ears.
You, pour us some tea!
Orders pour in.
Just pour in acetic acid.
Then you pour it in there.
May I pour you a dish of tea? Coming, coming Mr. Heep! Come here, Micawber!
Pour me one, too.
We were just fixing to pour us a little libation.
Every time I see old dead wagon, I pour me four fingers of bourbon.
Well, then I'd better pour it out.
Pour away.
Is the lead hot enough to pour?
Well, don't forget, you can still pour water.
Pour tea over the rice.
Pour me a drink, doll.
Pour some of that on my hands.
You know - or maybe you don't - that for it to be any good, you pour white wine over the potatoes when they're boiling hot.
Well, now that's settled. You may pour me out some coffee.
They put you in a shirt with long sleeves and they pour ice water on you.
Pour on the brakes.
Get dressed while I pour some Champagne.
Pour it in me slipper, Joey.

News and current affairs

BERLIN - As thousands of refugees pour into Europe to escape the horrors of war, with many dying along the way, a different sort of tragedy has played out in many of the European Union's newest member states.
Indeed, while the scandals have shaken the government, Lula was overwhelmingly reelected last year, and investors continue to pour money into the stock market.
But it does not automatically follow that governments should pour money into public infrastructure projects or foster private investment by adding further incentives amid already auspicious market conditions.
With membership achieved and EU money starting to pour in, leaders feel secure enough to let economic policy slip.
But, given the tastes and appetites of Moscow's mayor, you can assume that he will continue to pour what money remains into the city's building boom.
In fact, there has been neither inflation nor growth: central banks can seemingly pour hundreds of billions of dollars, euros, or yen into the market with little discernible effect.
Big international banks pour in lots of short term capital into a region, and then suddenly pull the plug, demanding immediate repayments, and being unwilling to roll over the credits.
Since those early days, the US Government has continued to pour billions of dollars into research and development of IT technologies.
Perhaps not surprisingly, the IMF has tried to pour cold water on international enthusiasm for its generosity.
Confidence is too low for commercial banks to create credit on the scale needed to return to full employment and the pre-crisis growth trend, however many hundreds of billions of whatever cash central banks pour into them.
The TRC helped to open festering wounds, cleanse them, and pour balm on them to help in healing all of South Africa's people.
Stable economic policy and rapid growth, in turn, enabled Blair's government to pour extra money into education and the National Health Service.
In doing so, he neglected to focus on the structural problems that propelled a docile society to pour into the streets two and a half years ago to bring down his predecessor, Hosni Mubarak.
Britain's economy grew more steadily and rapidly than it had done for several generations, and the tax revenue generated by growth enabled the government to pour money into education and the National Health Service.
It is certainly the case that today's super-low interest rates encourage investors to pour funds into risky assets.
Whenever Russia's people pour into the streets en masse, as they currently are doing, from that point on things never work out well for the authorities.
Reculer pour mieux sauter - backing up in order to jump better - is, after all, a time-honored and very European principle.
As a result, millions of people die every year from diseases for which no new drugs are in the pipeline, while drug companies pour billions into developing cures for erectile dysfunction and baldness.

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