pouring

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pour

(pôr)

v. poured, pour·ing, pours

v.tr.

a. To cause (a liquid or granular solid) to stream or flow, as from a container: poured tea from the pot into the cup.

b. To pour a liquid or particles into (a container): poured a glass of milk.

c. To empty (a container) of a liquid or granular solid: poured a bucket of sand on the ground.

2. To send forth, produce, express, or utter copiously, as if in a stream or flood: poured money into the project; poured out my inner thoughts.

v.intr.

1. To stream or flow continuously or profusely: Water poured over the dam.

2. To rain hard or heavily: It has been pouring for an hour.

3. To pass or proceed in large numbers or quantity: Students poured into the auditorium.

4. To serve a beverage, such as tea or coffee, to a gathering: We need someone to pour.

A pouring or flowing forth, especially a downpour of rain.

Idiom:

pour it on Informal

1. To move or perform an activity at maximum speed or intensity.

2. To speak or express oneself continuously or elaborately.

[Middle English pouren, perhaps from Old North French purer, to sift, pour out, from Latin pūrāre, to purify, from pūrus, pure; see peuə- in Indo-European roots.]

pour′er n.

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pouring

(ˈpɔːrɪŋ)

adj

1. (Physical Geography) (of rain) heavy: in the pouring rain.

2. (Physical Geography) characterized by heavy rainfall: a pouring wet day.

3. (Cookery) capable of being poured

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Adj.

pouring - flowing profusely; "a gushing hydrant"; "pouring flood waters"

gushing

running - (of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream; "as mountain stream with freely running water"; "hovels without running water"

Translations

pouring

[ˈpɔːrɪŋ] ADJ

1. [custard, cream etc] → líquido

2. [rain] → torrencial
we queued in the pouring rain for hours → hicimos cola durante horas bajo la lluvia torrencial

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

pouring

[ˈpɔːrɪŋ] adj

[rain] → torrentiel(le)
in the pouring rain → sous une pluie torrentielle

pouring consistency → consistance liquide

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

pouring

adj pouring rain → strömender Regen; a pouring wet day → ein völlig verregneter Tag; pouring cream → Sahne f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

pouring

[ˈpɔːrɪŋ] adj

a. (rain) → torrenziale
a pouring wet day → una giornata molto piovosa

b. (custard) → liquido/a

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