Pour
Poor.
To pore.
To cause to flow in a stream, as a liquid or anything flowing like a liquid, either out of a vessel or into it; as, to pour water from a pail; to pour wine into a decanter; to pour oil upon the waters; to pour out sand or dust.
To send forth as in a stream or a flood; to emit; to let escape freely or wholly.
To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly.
To flow, pass, or issue in a stream, or as a stream; to fall continuously and abundantly; as, the rain pours; the people poured out of the theater.
A stream, or something like a stream; a flood.
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Pour Quotations
If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it."
T. S. Eliot
If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.
Aeschylus
Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
Lord Byron
Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.
Robert Collier
A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Skating was the vessel into which I could pour my heart and soul.
Peggy Fleming
Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.
Mahalia Jackson
It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.
Friedrich Schiller
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
William Ellery Channing
Pour Translations
pour in Afrikaans is giet
pour in Dutch is sauzen, gieten, stortregenen
pour in Finnish is kaataa
pour in Italian is mescere, versare
pour in Latin is fluo
pour in Portuguese is derrame
pour in Spanish is lluvia intensa, envasar
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