different between pour vs rush

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pô, IPA^(key): /p??/
• (General American) enPR: pôr, IPA^(key): /p??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: p?r, IPA^(key): /po(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /po?/
• (obsolete) enPR: pour, pou?r, IPA^(key): /pa??/, /pa???/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophone: pore; poor (in accents with the pour–poor merger); paw (non-rhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English pouren (“to pour”), of uncertain origin. Likely to be of Celtic origin, from Celtic base *purr- (“to jerk, throw (water)”), akin to Welsh bwrw (“to cast, strike, rain”), Scottish Gaelic purr (“to push, thrust, urge, drive”), Irish purraim (“I push, I jerk”). Compare also the rare Dutch pouren (“to pour”).

Displaced Middle English schenchen, Middle English schenken (“to pour”) (from Old English s?en?an (“to pour out”), whence dialectal English shink, and Old Norse skenkja, whence dialectal English skink, and akin to Dutch schenken (“to pour; to gift”)), Middle English ?eoten, Middle English yetten (“to pour”) (from Old English ??otan (“to pour”) and akin to German gießen (“to pour”)), Middle English birlen (“to pour, serve drink to”) (from Old English byrelian (“to pour, serve drink to”)), Middle English hellen (“to pour, pour out”) (from Old Norse hella (“to pour out, incline”)). Largely displaced English teem, from Middle English temen (“to pour out, empty”) (from Old Norse tœma (“to pour out, empty”))

Verb

pour (third-person singular simple present pours, present participle pouring, simple past and past participle poured)

1. (transitive) To cause (liquid, or liquid-like substance) to flow in a stream, either out of a container or into it.

2. (transitive, figuratively) To send out as in a stream or a flood; to cause (an emotion) to come out; to cause to escape.
   • […] I haue drunke neither wine nor strong drinke, but haue powred out my soule before the Lord.

   • Now will I shortly powre out my furie vpon thee, and accomplish mine anger vpon thee […]
3. (transitive) To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly.
   • 1733-1734, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man

     Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat?

4. (intransitive) To flow, pass or issue in a stream; to fall continuously and abundantly.

5. (impersonal) To rain hard.

6. (intransitive) Of a beverage, to be on tap or otherwise available for serving to customers.
7. (intransitive) To move in a throng, as a crowd.
   • 1716, John Gay, Trivia: Or, The Art of Walking the Streets of London

     In the rude throng pour on with furious pace.

Synonyms

• (pour a drink): shink, skink

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

pour (plural pours)

1. The act of pouring.

2. Something, or an amount, poured.
   • 2003, John Brian Newman, B. S. Choo, Advanced concrete technology: Volume 2

     Over this time period, the first concrete pour has not only lost workability but has started to set so that it is no longer affected by the action of a vibrator.

3. (colloquial) A downpour, or flood of precipitation.

Translations

Etymology 2

Verb

pour

1. Misspelling of pore.

References

Anagrams

• puro, roup

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• pur, pür
• Puur

Etymology

From Middle High German b?re, gib?re, from Old High German gib?ro, from b?r (“peasant”). Cognate with German Bauer, Dutch buur, English bower.

Noun

pour m

1. (Issime) farmer

References

• “pour” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

French

Etymology

From Middle French pour, from Old French por, pur, from Vulgar Latin *por, from Latin pr?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pu?/
• Rhymes: -u?

Preposition

pour

1. for (when followed by a noun or pronoun)

2. to (when followed by a verb in the infinitive)

Derived terms

• peser le pour et le contre
• pour ainsi dire
• pourboire m
• pour ce qui est de
• pour-cent m
• pour-compte m
• pour que

Further reading

• “pour” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• prou

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French por, pur.

Preposition

pour

1. for (indicates an intended aim or recipient)

Descendants

• French: pour

Norman

Alternative forms

• pouor (Jersey)

Etymology

From Old French por, from Vulgar Latin *por, from Latin pr?.

Preposition

pour

1. (Guernsey) for
2. (Guernsey) in order to

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (peasant, farmer): pur (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter), paur (Vallader)
• (pawn): pur (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter, Vallader)

Etymology

Of Germanic origin, cognate with German Bauer, Dutch boer.

Noun

pour m (plural pours)

1. (Surmiran) peasant, farmer
2. (Surmiran, chess) pawn

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/
• Homophone: Rush
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Middle English risshe, rusch, risch, from Old English rysc, risc, from Proto-West Germanic *ruskij?, borrowed from Latin r?scum (“butcher's broom”) + *-j? (animal and plant suffix). Cognates include West Frisian risk, Dutch rus (“bulrush”), Norwegian Bokmål rusk, dialectal Norwegian ryskje (“hair-grass”).

Noun

rush (plural rushes)

1. Any of several stiff plants of the genus Juncus, or the family Juncaceae, having hollow or pithy stems and small flowers, and often growing in marshes or near water.
2. The stem of such plants used in making baskets, mats, the seats of chairs, etc.
3. The merest trifle; a straw.
   • 1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull

     John Bull's friendship is not worth a rush.

4. A wick.

Synonyms

• (plant of the genus Juncus): juncus

Translations

Etymology 2

Perhaps from Middle English ruschen, russchen (“to rush, startle, make a loud rushing noise”), from Old English hrys?an (“to jolt, startle”), from Proto-Germanic *hurskijan? (“to startle, drive”), from *hurskaz (“fast, rapid, quick”), from Proto-Indo-European *?ers- (“to run, hurry”).

Cognate with Old High German hurscan (“to speed, accelerate”), Old English horsc (“quick, quick-witted, clever”).

Noun

rush (plural rushes)

1. A sudden forward motion.
   • 1642, Henry Wotton, A Short View of the Life and Death of George Villiers

     A gentleman of his train spurred up his horse, and, with a violent rush, severed him from the duke.
2. A surge.

3. General haste.

4. A rapid, noisy flow.

5. (military) A sudden attack; an onslaught.
6. (video games) The strategy of attacking an opponent with a large swarm of weak units, rather than spending time developing their abilities.

   Synonym: zerg

7. (contact sports) The act of running at another player to block or disrupt play.

8. (American football, dated) A rusher; a lineman.

9. A sudden, brief exhilaration, for instance the pleasurable sensation produced by a stimulant.

10. (US, figuratively) A regulated period of recruitment in fraternities and sororities.

11. (US, dated, college slang) A perfect recitation.
12. (croquet) A roquet in which the object ball is sent to a particular location on the lawn.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

rush (third-person singular simple present rushes, present participle rushing, simple past and past participle rushed)

1. (transitive or intransitive) To hurry; to perform a task with great haste.
   • c. 1683, Robert West, The further Exmaination of Robert West of the Middle-Temple, Barrister at Law

     A party of men […] shoud be ready to rush out; and upon the noise of the first shot immediately run down to the Gate and break in.
2. (intransitive) To flow or move forward rapidly or noisily.
3. (intransitive, soccer) To dribble rapidly.
4. (transitive or intransitive, contact sports) To run directly at another player in order to block or disrupt play.
5. (transitive) To cause to move or act with unusual haste.

6. (intransitive, military) To make a swift or sudden attack.
7. (military) To swiftly attack without warning.
8. (video games, slang, transitive) To attack (an opponent) with a large swarm of units.

   Synonym: zerg

9. (transitive or intransitive, US, college) To attempt to join a fraternity or sorority; to undergo hazing or initiation in order to join a fraternity or sorority.
10. (transitive) To transport or carry quickly.

11. (transitive or intransitive, croquet) To roquet an object ball to a particular location on the lawn.
12. (US, slang, dated) To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:rush (hurry)

Derived terms

• downrush
• rushing

Translations

Adjective

rush (not comparable)

1. Performed with, or requiring urgency or great haste, or done under pressure.

Usage notes

Used only before a noun.

See also

• rushes

Further reading

• Juncaceae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Rush_(football) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Hurs, RHUs, Suhr

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English rush

Noun

rush n (definite singular rushet, indefinite plural rush, definite plural rusha or rushene)

1. a rush (Etymology 2)

Derived terms

• gullrush
• rushtid

References

• “rush” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “rush” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English rush

Noun

rush n (definite singular rushet, indefinite plural rush, definite plural rusha)

1. a rush (Etymology 2)

Derived terms

• gullrush
• rushtid

References

• “rush” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.