pour
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 →
2) Rain pours when it rains very hard: «It's pouring». tree →
3) To pour (in, out) can mean lots of people or things move fast: crowds poured out of the stadium. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Pouring the anointing oil on Aaron's head made him high priest. Pouring out blood showed respect for life, which belongs to God. The eye "poured out" in Lamentations is a picture of endless weeping. In the primary 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
- Thou shalt break it in pieces, and pour oil thereon; it is a meal-offering. (Torah LEV.2.6, JPS 1917) tree →
- Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it out upon the earth as water. (Torah DEU.12.24, JPS 1917) tree →
- Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head, and anoint him. (Torah EXO.29.7, JPS 1917) tree →
- So they poured out for the men to eat. (Prophets 2KI.4.40, JPS 1917) tree →
- Or who can pour out the bottles of heaven, (Writings JOB.38.37, JPS 1917) tree →
- Mine eye is poured out, and ceaseth not, without any intermission, (Writings LAM.3.49, JPS 1917) tree →
- She pours 200 ml of milk into a glass. tree →
- He poured 2 liters out of the jug. tree →
- Pour equal amounts into 4 cups. tree →
- How much water is left after she pours 3 cups? tree →
- It's pouring outside, so take your raincoat. tree →
- Pour the batter into the cake tin. tree →
- Fans poured into the stadium. tree →
- Ask an adult to pour hot water. tree →
- Into another similar bottle she poured some good wine. tree →
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
- Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head, and anoint him.
- Thou shalt break it in pieces, and pour oil thereon; it is a meal-offering.
- And he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron's head, and anointed him, to sanctify him.
- And the priest shall take of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand.
- And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own left hand.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «pour» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.