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 →

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 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 →
• 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

• «The Dormouse is asleep again,» says the Hatter, and he pours a little hot tea upon its nose.
• Pour oil into a glass of water and it sits on top in its own layer, however long you wait.
• Pour vinegar onto a heap of baking soda and it froths up like a witch's cauldron.
• Carbon dioxide pushes oxygen away from a flame, so poured over a candle it puts it out; some fire extinguishers use it.
• Some cleaners must never meet: bleach poured together with an acid toilet cleaner gives off chlorine, a poisonous gas.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «pour» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.