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# pour

«pour» in Mova's school dictionary: **to make a liquid flow out of a container, like pouring…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (pour, pours, poured, pouring)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To pour is to make a liquid flow out of a container, like pouring water into a glass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pour/#m1)

2) Rain pours when it rains very hard: «It's pouring». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pour/#m2)

3) To pour (in, out) can mean lots of people or things move fast: crowds poured out of the stadium. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pour/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: liquid moved from one container to another: one gets less, the other more; pouring equal amounts into cups means divide; measuring capacity in ml and litres. In science: pouring liquids carefully, pouring sand vs water. In the kitchen: pouring milk, pouring batter. In stories: «rain poured down», «letters poured in».

### examples

- She pours 200 ml of milk into a glass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pour/#x1)
- He poured 2 liters out of the jug. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pour/#x2)
- Pour equal amounts into 4 cups. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pour/#x3)
- How much water is left after she pours 3 cups? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pour/#x4)
- It's pouring outside, so take your raincoat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pour/#x5)
- Pour the batter into the cake tin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pour/#x6)
- Fans poured into the stadium. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pour/#x7)
- Ask an adult to pour hot water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pour/#x8)
- Into another similar bottle she poured some good wine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pour/#x9)

### note

Pouring out = subtract from the first container; pouring in = add to the second. Equal amounts into cups = divide. Trap: the total amount of liquid does not change. Homophones: pore (a tiny hole in skin) and poor (having little money). Safety: let an adult pour boiling water.

### In the corpora

- [«The Dormouse is asleep again,» says the Hatter, and he pours a little hot tea upon its nose.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/13-alice-a-mad-tea-party-1/22/)
- [Pour oil into a glass of water and it sits on top in its own layer, however long you wait.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/7-oil-and-water/0/)
- [Pour vinegar onto a heap of baking soda and it froths up like a witch's cauldron.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/18-the-fizz-vinegar-lemon-and-soda/0/)
- [Carbon dioxide pushes oxygen away from a flame, so poured over a candle it puts it out; some fire extinguishers use it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/18-the-fizz-vinegar-lemon-and-soda/14/)
- [Some cleaners must never meet: bleach poured together with an acid toilet cleaner gives off chlorine, a poisonous gas.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/25-cleaning-chemicals-safety/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pour» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pour/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.