Pour vs Cour - What's the difference?
pour | cour |
To cause to flow in a stream, as a liquid or anything flowing like a liquid, either out of a vessel or into it.
To send forth as in a stream or a flood; to emit; to let escape freely or wholly.
* The Bible, 1 i. 15.
* The Bible, vii. 8
* (William Shakespeare)
* (John Milton)
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly.
* A. Pope
To flow, pass or issue in or as a stream; to fall continuously and abundantly; as, the rain pours.
* Gay
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=January 8, author=Chris Bevan, work=BBC
, title= The act of pouring.
Something, or an amount, poured.
* 2003 , John Brian Newman, B. S. Choo, Advanced concrete technology: Volume 2
(colloquial) A stream, or something like a stream; especially a flood of precipitation.
As nouns the difference between pour and cour
is that pour is fear while cour is a three-month unit of television broadcasting.pour
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) pouren, . Displaced native Middle English schenchen, ).Verb
(en verb)- Ihave poured out my soul before the Lord.
- Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee.
- London doth pour out her citizens!
- Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand?
Can China clean up fast enough?, passage=At the same time, it is pouring money into cleaning up the country.}}
- Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat?
- In the rude throng pour on with furious pace.
Arsenal 1-1 Leeds, passage=In a breathless finish Arsenal poured forward looking for a winner but Leeds held out for a deserved replay after Bendtner wastefully fired wide and Schmeichel acrobatically kept out Denilson's rasping effort}}
Synonyms
* (pour a drink) shink, skinkDerived terms
* pourable * pourer * pouringly * inpour * outpour * pour one's heart outNoun
(en noun)- 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.
- A pour of rain. --Miss Ferrier.