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Poured vs Pouted - What's the difference?

poured | pouted |

As verbs the difference between poured and pouted

is that poured is (pour) while pouted is (pout).

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

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    pouted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (pout)

  • pout

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) pouten, probably from Scandinavian (compare (etyl) ).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One's facial expression when pouting.
  • * 2008 , (Vladimir Nabokov), Natasha] , written 1924, translated by [[w:Dmitri Nabokov, Dmitri Nabokov]
  • With a pout , Natasha counted the drops, and her eyelashes kept time.
  • A fit of sulking or sullenness.
  • Derived terms
    * pouting (n)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To push out one's lips.
  • To be or pretend to be ill-tempered; to sulk.
  • To say while pouting.
  • Synonyms
    * moue

    See also

    * pucker

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) , from Indo-European root beu having a meaning associated with the notion "to swell".

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare) Shortened name of various fishes such as the hornpout () and the eelpouts (Zoarcidae).
  • Derived terms
    * eelpout, eel-pout * hornpout

    See also

    * (wikipedia "pout")

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (Scotland) To shoot poults.
  • Anagrams

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