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Definition of pouring - 2 dictionary results

pour

  [pawr, pohr]
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–verb (used with object)
1. to send (a liquid, fluid, or anything in loose particles) flowing or falling, as from one container to another, or into, over, or on something: to pour a glass of milk; to pour water on a plant.
2. to emit or propel, esp. continuously or rapidly: The hunter poured bullets into the moving object.
3. to produce or utter in or as in a stream or flood (often fol. by out): to pour out one's troubles to a friend.
–verb (used without object)
4. to issue, move, or proceed in great quantity or number: Crowds poured from the stadium after the game.
5. to flow forth or along; stream: Floodwaters poured over the embankments.
6. to rain heavily (often used impersonally with it as subject): It was pouring, but fortunately we had umbrellas.
–noun
7. the act of pouring.
8. an abundant or continuous flow or stream: a pour of invective.
9. a heavy fall of rain.
Origin:
1300–50; ME pouren; orig. uncert.

Related forms:
pour⋅a⋅ble, adjective
pour⋅a⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, noun
pourer, noun
pour⋅ing⋅ly, adverb
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pour   (pôr, pōr)   
v.   poured, pour·ing, pours

v.   tr.
  1. To make (a liquid or granular solid) stream or flow, as from a container.
  2. To send forth, produce, express, or utter copiously, as if in a stream or flood: poured money into the project; poured out my inner thoughts.
v.   intr.
  1. To stream or flow continuously or profusely.
  2. To rain hard or heavily.
  3. To pass or proceed in large numbers or quantity: Students poured into the auditorium.
  4. To serve a beverage, such as tea or coffee, to a gathering: We need someone to pour.
n.  A pouring or flowing forth, especially a downpour of rain.

[Middle English pouren, perhaps from Old North French purer, to sift, pour out, from Latin pūrāre, to purify, from pūrus, pure; see peuə- in Indo-European roots.]
pour'er n.
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