Pour vs Ooze - What's the difference?
pour | ooze | Synonyms |
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)
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, 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
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, 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.
Potion of vegetable matter used for leather tanning.
Secretion, humour.
A thick often unpleasant liquid; muck.
To be secreted or slowly leak.
* 1988 , David Drake, The Sea Hag , Baen Publishing Enterprises (2003), ISBN 0671654241,
* 1994 , Madeleine May Kunin, Living a Political Life , Vintage Books (1995), ISBN 9780679740087,
* 2011 , Karen Mahoney, The Iron Witch , Flux (2011), ISBN 9780738725826,
(figuratively) To give off a sense of (something).
* 1989 , Robert R. McCammon, The Wolf's Hour , Open Road Integrated Media (2011), ISBN 9781453231548,
* 1999 , Tamsin Blanchard, Antonio Berardi: Sex and Sensibility , Watson-Guptill Publications (1999), ISBN 9780823012077,
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Soft mud, slime, or shells on the bottom of a body of water.
* Shakespeare
A piece of soft, wet, pliable turf.
The liquor of a tanning vat.
English terms with multiple etymologies
Pour is a synonym of ooze.
As nouns the difference between pour and ooze
is that pour is fear while ooze is potion of vegetable matter used for leather tanning or ooze can be soft mud, slime, or shells on the bottom of a body of water.As a verb ooze is
to be secreted or slowly leak.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.
Etymology 2
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* 1000 English basic words ----ooze
English
Etymology 1
* ()'' (etyl) . * ()'' (etyl) ''wosen'', from ''wose 'sap'; see above.Noun
(en noun)Verb
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- Pale slime oozed through all the surfaces; some of it dripped from the ceiling and burned Dennis as badly as the blazing sparks had done a moment before.
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- He was hard to understand because he spoke softly, and his Vermont accent was as thick as maple syrup oozing down a pile of pancakes.
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- Her heart constricted when she saw thick blood oozing from a wide gash in his forehead.
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- "Good servants are so hard to find," Chesna said, oozing arrogance.
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- There are no two ways about it: a Berardi dress oozes sex appeal from its very seams.
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Etymology 2
(etyl) wose'', from (etyl) '''' 'mud, mire', from (etyl) . More at virus.Noun
(en noun)- My son i' the ooze is bedded.