transcription, транскрипция: [ pɔ:(r) ]
( pours, pouring, poured)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you pour a liquid or other substance, you make it flow steadily out of a container by holding the container at an angle.
Pour a pool of sauce on two plates and arrange the meat neatly...
Heat the oil in a non-stick frying-pan, then pour in the egg mixture.
VERB : V n prep , V n with adv
2.
If you pour someone a drink, you put some of the drink in a cup or glass so that they can drink it.
He got up and poured himself another drink...
Quietly Mark poured and served drinks for all of them.
VERB : V n n , V n for n
3.
When a liquid or other substance pours somewhere, for example through a hole, it flows quickly and in large quantities.
Blood was pouring from his broken nose...
Tears poured down both our faces...
The tide poured in from the south.
VERB : V prep / adv , V prep / adv , V prep / adv
4.
When it rains very heavily, you can say that it is pouring .
It has been pouring with rain all week...
The rain was pouring down...
We drove all the way through pouring rain.
VERB : usu cont , it V , V down , V-ing
5.
If people pour into or out of a place, they go there quickly and in large numbers.
Any day now, the Northern forces may pour across the new border...
Holidaymakers continued to pour down to the coast in search of surf and sun...
= stream
VERB : V prep / adv , V prep / adv
6.
If something such as information pours into a place, a lot of it is obtained or given.
Martin, 78, died yesterday. Tributes poured in from around the globe...
= flood
VERB : V adv / prep
7.
If someone pours cold water on a plan or idea, they criticize it so much that people lose their enthusiasm for it.
The education secretary poured cold water on the recommendations of a working party.
= dismiss
PHRASE : V inflects
8.
to pour scorn on something : see scorn
to pour cold water on something : see water