noun
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The act of pouring.
example
The bartender's inexpert pour left me with a pint of beer that was half foam.
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Something, or an amount, poured.
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A downpour, or flood of precipitation.
verb
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To cause (liquid, or liquid-like substance) to flow in a stream, either out of a container or into it.
example
pour water from a jug
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To send out as in a stream or a flood; to cause (an emotion) to come out; to cause to escape.
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To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly.
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To flow, pass or issue in a stream; to fall continuously and abundantly.
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the rain poured down.
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To rain hard.
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It's pouring outside.
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Of a beverage, to be on tap or otherwise available for serving to customers.
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To move in a throng, as a crowd.
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The people poured out of the theater.
Examples of pour in a Sentence
Dean rose to pour himself a glass of milk.
Deborah cooed, "Pour me one too, please."
Grease a cake tin, then pour in mixture.
Go in the parlor and pour yourself a glass of sherry and put your feet up.
She leaned over to pour his coffee and let one hand rest on his shoulder.
I don't know, something innocuous like pour a glass of wine and dump it down the sink, or open and close a window.
From the age of twenty he was at work on his two great books - the Memoires pour servir a l'histoire ecclesiastique des six premiers siecles, and the Histoire des empereurs during the same period.
Numerous torrents pour down from the two boundary ranges, and unite in the plains to form large streams, which fall into the chief streams of the district, which are the Irrawaddy, Hlaing and Bassein, all of them branches of the Irrawaddy.
He had already attempted musical composition, and at this period produced several concertos pour basse, in the manner of the violoncellist, Lamarre, in whose name they were published.
Another popular work of his was Les Visites charitables pour toutes sortes de personnes afligees (1669) .
We know something of what it contained from a report by Leibnitz, who had seen it in Paris, and from a resume of its results published in 1640 by Pascal himself, under the title Essai pour les coniques.
In neither case is there a waste-weir, the surplus water being allowed to pour over the crest of the dam.
Muscles when active seem to pour into the circulation substances which, of unknown chemical composition, are physiologically recognizable by their stimulant action on the respiratory nervous centre.
He published in 1873 Pour la verite et pour la justice, in justification of the government of national defence, and in 1879 L'Armee francaise en 1879, par un officier en retraiie, a sort of supplement to his former work of 1867.
Take cake out of tin, then pour coffee - chocolate icing all over.
When it's properly chilled, pour it into a limoncello shot glass, a typical shot glass or an aperitif glass.
From this time he continued to pour forth a number of critical writings on literature, art, &c. His bold ideas on these subjects, which were a great advance even on Lessing's doctrines, naturally excited hostile criticism, and in consequence of this opposition, which took the form of aspersions on his religious orthodoxy, he resolved to leave Riga.
There are also certain orders, such as the recently instituted Order of Merit (British), and the Pour le Merite (Prussia), which have but one class, all members being on an equality of rank within the order.
The badge of the military order is a blue cross with gold uncrowned eagles in the angles; on the topmost arm is the initial F., with a crown; on the other arms the inscription Pour le Merite.
The badge of the class for science or art is a circular medallion of white, with a gold eagle in the centre surrounded by a blue border with the inscription Pour le Merite; on the white field the letters '3F.
The fall of Napoleon having now freed the British government from the obligation to retain its army in Europe, troops from Spain began to pour in.
His idea was to combine the moral influence of the North, and pour it through every open channel upon the South.
For water-vessels, &c., they employ gourds and large coco-nut shells, in preparing which they pour in water and allow the pulp or the kernel to decay, so that it may be removed without breaking the rind or shell.
The classical observations of Reaumur Memoires pour servir a l'histoire des insectes, vols.
The year before the Revolution broke out he, with some assistance from a man of similar but lesser talent, Champcenetz, 2 compiled a lampoon, entitled Petit Almanach de nos grands hommes pour 1788, in which some writers of actual or future talent and a great many nobodies were ridiculed in the most pitiless manner.
Then came several years' respite from Indian war, and settlers began at once to pour into the region.
Pour in a small ladle full of batter, enough to make a 1/2cm thick pancake of approx 10cm in diameter.
Pour into the ingredients in the mixing bowl and add the marmalade.
Slice the meat then pour the sauce over the mutton.
Pour the drink into a chilled glass, top with whipped cream and garnish with a cinnamon stick.
Now it is time to pour the paint you want to use.
Shake well and pour into a specialty glass.
Pour the proper amount into the cup and swallow.
Specially devoted to English literature were the Bibliotheque anglaise (1716-1728), the Memoires litteraires de la Grande Bretagne (1720-1724), the Bibliotheque britannique (1733-1734), and the Journal britannique (1750-1757) of Maty,' who took for his principle, " pour penser avec liberte it faut penser seul."
During floods they pour over their banks upon the surrounding valleys, by a thousand channels which interlace and establish communication between the main streams. After numerous bifurcations they find their way into the sea by three principal mouths.
This alpine region sends out numerous rivers in a southerly direction, which, forcing their passage through narrow defiles, and precipitated in cataracts over the precipices, eventually pour themselves into the Brahmaputra.
The natural song of the canary is loud and clear; and in their native groves the males, especially during the pairing season, pour forth their song with such ardour as sometimes to burst the delicate vessels of the throat.
The abortive emeute of the 10th of March warned the Girondists of their danger, but the Commission of Twelve appointed on the 18th of May, the arrest of Marat and Hebert, and other precautionary measures, were defeated by the popular risings of the 27th and 31st of May, and, finally, on the 2nd of June, Hanriot with the National 1 Daunou, "Memoires pour servir a l'hist.
It was on his motion that, on the 25th of February, the government undertook "to guarantee the existence of the workmen by work"; and though his demand for the establishment of a ministry of labour was refused - as beyond the competence of a provisional government - he was appointed to preside over the government labour commission (Commission du Gouvernement pour les travailleurs) established at the Luxembourg to inquire into and report on the labour question.
Nor was it enough that the person baptized should himself enter the water; the baptizer must pour it over his head, so that it run down his person.
The popular etymology of the name Tabriz from tab=fever, riz = pourer away (verb, rikhtan = pour away, flow; German rieseln?), hence "fever-destroying," is erroneous and was invented in modern times.
In 1828 he was awarded the prize offered by the Societe d'Encouragement pour l'Industrie Nationale for a process of making artificial ultramarine with all the properties of the substance prepared from lapis lazuli; and six years later he resigned his official position in order to devote himself to the commercial production of that material, a factory for which he established at Fleurieux sur Saone.
The twelve constellations of the zodiac form an ingenious machine, a great wheel with buckets, which pour into the sun and moon, those shining ships that sail continually through space, the portions of light set free from the world.
Travel across the bad lands is very fatiguing because of the many small ascents and descents; and it is from this that their name, mauvaises terres pour traverser, was given by the early French voyageurs.
These springs, strongly sulphurous, rise a short distance inland at several points, and at last pour steaming over the rocks, which they have yellowed with their deposit, into the Euboic Sea.
These congresses have been supplemented by national congresses in ' See Annuaire du mouvement pacifaste pour l'anne'e 1910, published by the Bureau International de la Paix, at Bern.
In a street of Benares similar devotions meet the eye, as dainty maidens pour out phials of holy water over erect stones of the same obscene pattern that was common also in Greece and Italy.
Oihenart published in 1625 a Declaration historique de l'injuste usurpation et retention de la Navarre par les Espagnols and a fragment of a Latin work on the same subject is included in Galland's Memoires pour l'histoire de Navarre (1648).
When kindled by his subject it seemed to take possession of him and pour itself out with overwhelming speed of utterance, with heat and power.
The king appears to have been avenging his private wrongs, or destroying the three nobles pour encourager les autres.