| VERB | motion | pour | cause to run |
|---|---|---|---|
| motion | pour, swarm, stream, teem, pullulate | move in large numbers | |
| motion | pour, decant, pour out | pour out | |
| motion | pour | flow in a spurt | |
| possession | pour | supply in large amounts or quantities | |
| weather | pour, pelt, stream, rain cats and dogs, rain buckets | rain heavily |
| Sounds | pao'r | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | abhor ... Zocor: 121 rhymes with aor... | |
| Meaning | Cause to run. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something PP | |
| Model | The women pour water into the bowl | |
| Example | "pour water over the floor" | |
| Cause to | run, flow, feed, course | Move along, of liquids / liquids |
| Entailed by | pump | Draw or pour with a pump |
| Narrower | decant, pour, pour out | pour out |
| dribble, drip, drop | Let or cause to fall in drops | |
| effuse, pour out | pour out | |
| spill, shed, pour forth | pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities | |
| transfuse | pour out of one vessel into another | |
| Broader | move, displace | Cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense |
| See also | pour down | drink down entirely |
| Spanish | derramar, echar, verter | |
| Catalan | abocar, emetre, fluir, llançar, tirar, vessar | |
| Meaning | Move in large numbers. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s PP | |
| Example | "people were pouring out of the theater" | |
| Synonyms | swarm, stream, teem, pullulate | |
| Narrower | spill over, spill out, pour out | Be disgorged |
| Broader | crowd, crowd together | To gather together in large numbers |
| Spanish | hormiguear | |
| Catalan | anar a patolls | |
| Meaning | pour out. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something PP | |
| Synonyms | decant, pour out | |
| Broader | pour | Cause to run |
| Spanish | decantar, escanciar, servir, verter | |
| Catalan | abocar, decantar, servir | |
| Meaning | Flow in a spurt. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Something is ----ing PP | |
| Model | Water and oil pour into the bowl | |
| Example | "Water poured all over the floor" | |
| Narrower | regurgitate | pour or rush back |
| spurt, spirt, gush, spout | gush forth in a sudden stream or jet | |
| Broader | run, flow, feed, course | Move along, of liquids / liquids |
| Spanish | correr, fluir | |
| Catalan | córrer, fluir | |
| Meaning | Supply in large amounts or quantities. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something PP | |
| Example | "We poured money into the education of our children" | |
| Broader | supply, provide, render, furnish | Give something useful or necessary to |
| Spanish | invertir | |
| Meaning | rain heavily. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | It is ----ing | |
| Model | It was pouring all day long | |
| Example | "Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!" | |
| Synonyms | pelt, stream, rain cats and dogs, rain buckets | |
| Narrower | sheet | come down as if in sheets |
| sluice, sluice down | pour as if from a sluice | |
| Broader | rain, rain down | precipitate as rain |
| Spanish | diluviar, llover a cántaros | |
| Catalan | diluviar, ploure a bots i barrals | |
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