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.
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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}}
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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
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tumble English
Noun
( en noun)
A fall.
- I took a tumble down the stairs and broke my tooth.
An act of sexual intercourse.
* John Betjeman, Group Life: Letchworth
- Wouldn't it be jolly now, / To take our Aertex panters off / And have a jolly tumble in / The jolly, jolly sun?
* 1979 , Martine, Sexual Astrology (page 219)
- When you've just had a tumble between the sheets and are feeling rumpled and lazy, she may want to get up so she can make the bed.
Derived terms
* rough and tumble
* take a tumble
* tumble dryer
* tumbler
* give a tumble
Verb
(tumbl)
(lb) To fall end over end.
*(Robert South) (1634–1716)
*:He who tumbles from a tower surely has a greater blow than he who slides from a molehill.
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*:“Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are'' pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling ''à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.”
To perform gymnastics such as somersaults, rolls, and handsprings.
:(Rowe)
To roll over and over.
*1908 , (Kenneth Grahame), (The Wind in the Willows)
*:The two animals tumbled over each other in their eagerness to get inside, and heard the door shut behind them with great joy and relief.
(lb) To have sexual intercourse.
(lb) To smooth and polish a rough surface on relatively small parts.
To muss, to make disorderly; to tousle or rumple.
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Derived terms
* tumble to
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