• (RP) enPR: pô, IPA: /pɔː/
• (America) enPR: pôr, IPA: /pɔɹ/
• (rhotic, horse-hoarse) enPR: pōr, IPA: /po(ː)ɹ/
• (nonrhotic, horse-hoarse) IPA: /poə/
• (obsolete) enPR pour, IPA: /paʊɹ/, /paʊəɹ/

pour (pours, present participle pouring; past and past participle poured)

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

   pour water from a jug

   pour wine into a decanter

   to pour oil onto chips

   to pour out sand or dust.

2. (transitive, figurative) To send out as in a stream or a flood; to cause (an emotion) to come out; to cause to escape.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act 5, prologue]:

     How London doth pour out her citizens.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, 1 Samuel 1:15 ↗:

     […] I haue drunke neither wine nor strong drinke, but haue powred out my soule before the Lord.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Ezekiel 7:8 ↗:

     Now will I shortly powre out my furie vpon thee, and accomplish mine anger vpon thee […]

3. (transitive) To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly.
   • 1733-1734, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man

     Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat?

4. (intransitive) To flow, pass or issue in a stream; to fall continuously and abundantly.

   the rain poured down.

5. (impersonal) To rain hard.

   It's pouring outside.

6. (intransitive) Of a beverage, to be on tap or otherwise available for serving to customers.
7. (intransitive) To move in a throng, as a crowd.
   • 1716, John Gay, Trivia: Or, The Art of Walking the Streets of London

     In the rude throng pour on with furious pace.

   The people poured out of the theater.

• (pour a drink) shink, skink

• French: verser
• German: gießen, schütten, eingießen, einschütten, einschenken
• Italian: versare
• Portuguese: despejar, entornar
• Russian: лить
• Spanish: verter

• German: schütten
• Portuguese: despejar
• Russian: излива́ть

• Portuguese: despejar

• French: se déverser
• German: gießen
• Italian: diluviare
• Portuguese: afluir, escorrer
• Russian: ли́ться
• Spanish: diluviar

pour (plural pours)

1. The act of pouring.

   The bartender's inexpert pour left me with a pint of beer that was half foam.

2. Something, or an amount, poured.
   • 2003, John Brian Newman, B. S. Choo, Advanced concrete technology: Volume 2

     Over this time period, the first concrete pour has not only lost workability but has started to set so that it is no longer affected by the action of a vibrator.

3. (colloquial) A stream, or something like a stream; especially a flood of precipitation.

• Portuguese: despejamento

1. Misspelling of pore