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Poured vs Loured - What's the difference?

poured | loured |

As verbs the difference between poured and loured

is that poured is (pour) while loured is (lour).

poured

English

Verb

(head)
  • (pour)

    • pour

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) pouren, . Displaced native Middle English schenchen, ).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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.
    • Ihave poured out my soul before the Lord.
  • * The Bible, vii. 8
    • Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
    • London doth pour out her citizens!
  • * (John Milton)
    • Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand?
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Can China clean up fast enough? , passage=At the same time, it is pouring money into cleaning up the country.}}
  • To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly.
  • * A. Pope
    • Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat?
  • To flow, pass or issue in or as a stream; to fall continuously and abundantly; as, the rain pours.
  • * Gay
    • In the rude throng pour on with furious pace.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=January 8, author=Chris Bevan, work=BBC
    • , title= 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, skink

    Derived terms

    * pourable * pourer * pouringly * inpour * outpour * pour one's heart out

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of pouring.
  • 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.
  • (colloquial) A stream, or something like a stream; especially a flood of precipitation.
    • A pour of rain. --Miss Ferrier.

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (head)

    • Anagrams

    * 1000 English basic words ----

    loured

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (lour)

    • Anagrams

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    lour

    English

    Alternative forms

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; to be covered with dark and threatening clouds, as the sky; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.
  • * 1623 [1593] , (First Folio), act I, scene i
    • And all the clouds that lowr'd vpon our hou?e
  • * 1922 , , IX, lines 21-22
    • If here to-day the cloud of thunder lours
    To-morrow it will hie on far behests;
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  • * 1922 , , IX, lines 21-22
    • If here to-day the cloud of thunder lours
    To-morrow it will hie on far behests;
  • * {{quote-web, date=2007-03-29 , quotee=Judith , title=Gordon Brown Meets the Ten Year Olds , site=Dale's Diary
    • citation , passage= … the appalling burden of public service inflation-proof pensions that will lour over our children and grandchildren.}}
  • To frown; to look sullen.
  • * (rfdate) John Dryden:
    • But sullen discontent sat lowering on her face.

    Related terms

    * glower * loweringly