Spew vs Pour - What's the difference?
spew | pour |
to eject forcibly and in a stream
(slang) to vomit
(slang) to ejaculate
(slang) to laugh unexpectedly while drinking, causing drink to exit the nose
To eject seed, as wet land swollen with frost.
(slang) vomit or sick
(slang) ejaculate
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
* {{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 spew and pour
is that spew is (slang) vomit or sick while pour is fear.As a verb spew
is to eject forcibly and in a stream.spew
English
Verb
(en verb)Noun
(-)Derived terms
* Belyando spewAnagrams
* (l)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.