(v. t.) To cause to flow in a stream, as a liquid or anything flowing like a liquid, either out of a vessel or into it; as, to pour water from a pail; to pour wine into a decanter; to pour oil upon the waters; to pour out sand or dust.
(v. t.) To send forth as in a stream or a flood; to emit; to let escape freely or wholly.
(v. t.) To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly.
(v. i.) To flow, pass, or issue in a stream, or as a stream; to fall continuously and abundantly; as, the rain pours; the people poured out of the theater.
(n.) A stream, or something like a stream; a flood.
Example Sentences:
(1) If bitter, pour it out and measure 1.4 litres of water.
(2) It was like watching somebody pouring a blue liquid into a glass, it just began filling up.
(3) Can somebody who is not a billionaire, who stands for working families, actually win an election into which billionaires are pouring millions of dollars?” Naming prominent and controversial rightwing donors, he said: “It is not just Hillary, it is the Koch brothers, it is Sheldon Adelson.” Stephanopoulos seized the moment, asking: “Are you lumping her in with them?” Choosing to refer to the 2010 supreme court decision that removed limits on corporate political donations, rather than address the question directly, Sanders replied: “What I am saying is that I get very frightened about the future of American democracy when this becomes a battle between billionaires.
(4) (Observer, June 2013) Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet , 40 Current job: MP Nicknames: The harpist, "Madame Condescendante" (Bertrand Delanoë), "L'emmerdeuse" (Pain in the neck – Jacques Chirac) Campaign slogan: Une nouvelle énergie pour les Parisiens (A new energy for Parisians) Born: Paris Family: Daughter of a local mayor, granddaughter of a former French ambassador and great-granddaughter of one of the founder members of the French Communist party.
(5) At later stages numerous degenerating parasites were seen and macrophage lysosomes were observed adhering to and pouring their contents into the parasite.
(6) Milk poured from higher (5-10cm above the cup) will sink beneath the surface.
(7) Forty impressions were poured with the disinfectant dental stone and a similar number were poured with a comparable, nondisinfectant stone.
(8) That’s precisely the point made by Jubilee Debt Campaign: the reckless lenders that poured speculative cash into the country in the runup to the crisis escaped largely unscathed (though they were forced to accept some reduction in the face value of their bonds – known as a haircut – in the 2012 restructuring that accompanied Greece’s second emergency bailout).
(9) Stationary-phase cells of Escherichia coli were enumerated by the pour plate method on Trypticase soy agar containing 0.3% yeast extract (TSYA), violet red-bile agar, and desoxycholate-lactose agar, and by the most-probable-number method in Brilliant Green-bile broth and lauryl sulfate broth.
(10) Just this week, we heard the outrage pouring from many Americans over the crowning of an Indian Miss USA .
(11) For years Rupert Murdoch has poured his anti-BBC poison into the ears of his readers, viewers, and the politicians who pay him such assiduous court.
(12) When Trump had slept over at the family’s residence in upstate New York, Goldberg’s mother prepared breakfast for him in the morning and mistakenly poured salt instead of sugar all over their guest’s cornflakes.
(13) Pour into a pan and reheat, diluting slightly if you prefer a thinner soup.
(14) I remember the blood pouring across the floor and the screaming of the nanny looking after our boys."
(15) Others wrecked the villa interior, poured fuel on the floor and set it alight.
(16) Gerrard genuinely has postponed the issue while he pours his life into this tournament.
(17) Schemes employing solid media, such as the roll tube and pour plate methods, underestimated faecal contamination in shellfish tissue compared with a liquid MPN multiple test-tube method using minerals-modified-glutamate broth (MMGB) as primary enrichment medium.
(18) Labour will then be challenged – remorselessly, day after day – to back these measures or face that most familiar of charges: that it is planning a tax bombshell (with the added piquancy that this time the increase is needed simply to pour money into what will be billed as a broken welfare system).
(19) Urine collected from young adult male rats was poured into the female's cage at 12:00h and the animals were sacrificed before and 1, 2, or 3 hours after the male urine was given.
(20) The prospect of that tap being turned off has already seen capital pouring out of emerging markets and currencies, potentially exposing underlying weaknesses in economies that have been flourishing on a ready supply of cheap credit.
Shed
Definition:
(n.) A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut; as, a wagon shed; a wood shed.
(imp. & p. p.) of Shed
(v. t.) To separate; to divide.
(v. t.) To part with; to throw off or give forth from one's self; to emit; to diffuse; to cause to emanate or flow; to pour forth or out; to spill; as, the sun sheds light; she shed tears; the clouds shed rain.
(v. t.) To let fall; to throw off, as a natural covering of hair, feathers, shell; to cast; as, fowls shed their feathers; serpents shed their skins; trees shed leaves.
(v. t.) To cause to flow off without penetrating; as, a tight roof, or covering of oiled cloth, sheeds water.
(v. t.) To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.
(v. t.) To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.
(v. i.) To fall in drops; to pour.
(v. i.) To let fall the parts, as seeds or fruit; to throw off a covering or envelope.
(n.) A parting; a separation; a division.
(n.) The act of shedding or spilling; -- used only in composition, as in bloodshed.
(n.) That which parts, divides, or sheds; -- used in composition, as in watershed.
(n.) The passageway between the threads of the warp through which the shuttle is thrown, having a sloping top and bottom made by raising and lowering the alternate threads.
Example Sentences:
(1) In documents due to be published by the bank, it will signal a need to shed costs from a business that employs 10,000 people as it scrambles to return to profit.
(2) The role of surgery in triggering the reactivation of latent HSV-1, and the differences in rates of viral shedding between American and Japanese are discussed.
(3) The viruses shed by the volunteers were indistinguishable from those with which they were inoculated.
(4) The cercariae shed from the snails were again exposed to several species of fresh water snails in order to observe metacercarial formation in the snails and their infectivity to final hosts.
(5) The mean loss of hemoglobin and total protein per 100 ml of shed blood was similar in IMA-, and SVG-patients with or without aprotinin, although aprotinin diminished the total amounts in both groups with 50% (p < 0.01).
(6) Perhaps it’s the lot of people like my colleagues here in the centre and me to wrestle with our consciences, shed tears, lose sleep and try to make the best of a very bad, heart-breaking job and leave the rest of the world to party, get pissed and celebrate Christmas.
(7) The results are discussed in light of recent findings that elevated levels of gangliosides are found in in the sera of tumor-bearing animals, and it is suggested that gangliosides shed by tumor cells could be involved in the generalized immunosuppression observed in such animals.
(8) The result that shed walls can be solubilized by boiling in SDS-dithiothreitol indicates that disulfide linkages are critical for wall integrity.
(9) The minutes – which will be redacted – are expected to shed light on the thinking at the highest level of the Bank during the crisis, when Mervyn (now Lord) King was governor.
(10) The results of a retrospective study shed new light on the risks of specific cardiac defects in diabetic pregnancies.
(11) Our studies show that loss of Tf receptor from rat reticulocytes during maturation in vitro involves shedding of cellular Tf receptor in vesicles and release of soluble receptor from these vesicles.
(12) Instead of shedding jobs, many employers seem to be favouring pay restraint and reduced working hours as a means of controlling costs."
(13) The results suggest, that transformed epithelial cells can modulate the appearance of syndecan on the cell-surface by at least two ways: (a) by altering its glycosylation or (b) by increasing its shedding from the cell surface.
(14) In the light of the considerable number of prisoners and ex-prisoners in the original Kinsey sample, it is possible that the Institute for Sex Research might have in its files material that would shed light on this problem.
(15) Earlier results from PCR detection of adenoviruses in stool from children suffering from diarrhea gave indications that adenovirus particles are commonly shed in stools without being identified as the cause of illness [Allard et al.
(16) Current research may shed more light on this latter component and also provide the data for future psychoanalytic theorizing about character and personality.
(17) In naive cows, strain 433.31 induced less exudation of plasma into the milk, shedding of bacteria, macroscopic alteration, and a lower somatic cell count (SCC) than did the reference strain.
(18) We also observed the number of survived rats and plasma ir-ANP levels stimulated by volume loading of the shed blood or fluid.
(19) The loss of outer segment material through shedding was assessed by monitoring the phagosome content of the pigment epithelium.
(20) Tearfilm virus shedding secondary to electrical induction in high-dose and low-dose cyclophosphamide animals was higher than that of control, non-immunosuppressed animals.