pour
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
pour/pɔː(r)/
▶verb
- 1 flow or cause to flow in a steady stream.
■ prepare and serve (a drink).
- 2 (of rain) fall heavily.
- 3 (of people or things) come or go in a steady stream.
- 4 (pour something out) express one's feelings in an unrestrained way.
– phrases
pour oil on troubled waters try to calm a dispute with placatory words.
pour oil on troubled waters try to calm a dispute with placatory words.
– derivatives
pourable adjective,
pourer noun.
pourable adjective,
pourer noun.
– origin ME: of unknown origin.
usage: On the confusion of pour and pore, see usage at pore2.
'pour' also found in these Oxford entries:
baste
- cascade
- CERN
- circumfuse
- confound
- decant
- diffuse
- disembogue
- disgorge
- effusion
- found
- funnel
- fuse
- fusion
- futile
- glug
- gut
- infuse
- ingot
- ingurgitate
- libation
- perfuse
- pipette
- pore
- pourboire
- prime
- profuse
- refresh
- refund
- sloosh
- slosh
- spawn
- sprinkle
- strain
- suffuse
- taunt
- teem
- transfuse
- water
