Pour

Quick meaning: Pour is a verb meaning (transitive) To cause (liquid, or liquid-like substance) to flow in a stream, either out of a container or into it.

Meaning

(transitive) To cause (liquid, or liquid-like substance) to flow in a stream, either out of a container or into it.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, figurative) To send out as in a stream or a flood; to cause (an emotion) to come out; to cause to escape.
2. (transitive) To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly.
3. (intransitive) To flow, pass, or issue in a stream; to fall continuously and abundantly.
4. (impersonal) To rain hard.
5. (intransitive) Of a beverage, to be on tap or otherwise available for serving to customers.
6. (intransitive) To move in a throng, as a crowd.
7. (transitive) To move (a drunk or unsteady person) into or out of a place or vehicle.

Example Sentences

pour water from a jug

to pour oil onto chips

pour wine into a decanter

to pour out sand or dust.

Word Forms

• pours
• pouring
• poured

Synonyms for pour

Depending on context, synonyms include shink, skink, spate, sweep, crowd, throng.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include decant, stream, pelt, swarm, shed, flow.

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