Pour
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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
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
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
It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in.
Friedrich Schiller
If you don't want your dog to have bad breath, do what I do: Pour a little Lavoris in the toilet.
Jay Leno
After washing there was no place to pour the water except out of the window onto the heads of the people in the streets, which is the proper place to throw everything that is not wanted.
Ellsworth Huntington
If you pour some music on whatever's wrong, it'll sure help out.
Levon Helm
Skating was the vessel into which I could pour my heart and soul.
Peggy Fleming
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
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
Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
Walter Benjamin
I believe that when you're in love you have to pour your heart and soul out to your partner... or why bother? So in that sense I'm an incurable romantic when it comes to men.
Cameron Diaz
There is a garbage culture out there, where we pour garbage on people. Then the pollsters run around and take a poll and say, do you smell anything?
Bob Woodward
A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.
Jean Rostand
The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place.
David R. Brower
The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come out.
Chuck Jones
I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.
Nigella Lawson
Well, when I was a kid and I watched 'Speed Racer,' I used to always watch it in the morning with my cereal. And when I ate the cereal, I would pour soda into the cereal because we never really had milk for some reason, I don't know.
Emile Hirsch
I have this beautiful antique silver wine decanter that I bought at an auction. I always pour wine from that.
Paul Lynde
A sponge has that much absorbent capability and after a while you can pour water over it and nothing stays.
Itzhak Perlman
Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself.
James Van Der Zee
If you invent the Mini Cooper, pour all your energy and passion into it and it gets made, you should be on a roll. In the film industry you have to start again the next day.
Estelle Morris
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
Christ died to save this lost world; he did not come to destroy, maim or pour out wrath.
David Wilkerson
A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.
Helen Dunmore
Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.
J. Irwin Miller
Into this pour the purified juice: and put it into a pan of water come almost to a boil and continue nearly in the state of boiling until the juice is found to be the consistency of a thick syrup when cold. It is then when cold, to be corked up in a bottle for use.
James Lind
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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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