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Definition of Pour
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

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

If you don't want your dog to have bad breath, do what I do: Pour a little Lavoris in the toilet.
Jay Leno

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

If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.
Aeschylus

There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes - seize it, don't miss it.
Max Lucado

I have this beautiful antique silver wine decanter that I bought at an auction. I always pour wine from that.
Paul Lynde

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

Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time.
Mother Jones

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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