Meaning of "scour" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SCOUR

Via Middle Low German schūren, from Old French escurer, from Late Latin excūrāre to cleanse, from cūrāre.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF SCOUR

scour  [skaʊə]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SCOUR

Scour is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb scour in English.

WHAT DOES SCOUR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of scour in the English dictionary

The first definition of scour in the dictionary is to clean or polish by washing and rubbing, as with an abrasive cloth. Other definition of scour is to remove dirt from or have the dirt removed from. Scour is also to clear by the force of water; flush.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO SCOUR

PRESENT

Present

I scour

you scour

he/she/it scours

we scour

you scour

they scour

Present continuous

I am scouring

you are scouring

he/she/it is scouring

we are scouring

you are scouring

they are scouring

Present perfect

I have scoured

you have scoured

he/she/it has scoured

we have scoured

you have scoured

they have scoured

Present perfect continuous

I have been scouring

you have been scouring

he/she/it has been scouring

we have been scouring

you have been scouring

they have been scouring

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I scoured

you scoured

he/she/it scoured

we scoured

you scoured

they scoured

Past continuous

I was scouring

you were scouring

he/she/it was scouring

we were scouring

you were scouring

they were scouring

Past perfect

I had scoured

you had scoured

he/she/it had scoured

we had scoured

you had scoured

they had scoured

Past perfect continuous

I had been scouring

you had been scouring

he/she/it had been scouring

we had been scouring

you had been scouring

they had been scouring

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will scour

you will scour

he/she/it will scour

we will scour

you will scour

they will scour

Future continuous

I will be scouring

you will be scouring

he/she/it will be scouring

we will be scouring

you will be scouring

they will be scouring

Future perfect

I will have scoured

you will have scoured

he/she/it will have scoured

we will have scoured

you will have scoured

they will have scoured

Future perfect continuous

I will have been scouring

you will have been scouring

he/she/it will have been scouring

we will have been scouring

you will have been scouring

they will have been scouring

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would scour

you would scour

he/she/it would scour

we would scour

you would scour

they would scour

Conditional continuous

I would be scouring

you would be scouring

he/she/it would be scouring

we would be scouring

you would be scouring

they would be scouring

Conditional perfect

I would have scour

you would have scour

he/she/it would have scour

we would have scour

you would have scour

they would have scour

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been scouring

you would have been scouring

he/she/it would have been scouring

we would have been scouring

you would have been scouring

they would have been scouring

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you scour
we let´s scour
you scour

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to scour

Past participle

scoured

Present Participle

scouring

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «SCOUR»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «scour» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of scour

abrade · buff · burnish · clean · cleanse · comb · flush · forage · furbish · go over with a fine-tooth comb · hunt · polish · purge · ransack · rub · scrub · search · wash · whiten

TRANSLATION OF SCOUR

Find out the translation of scour to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of scour from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «scour» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 四处搜索
• Translator English - Spanish: registrar
• English: scour
• Translator English - Hindi: परिमार्जन
• Translator English - Arabic: نظف
• Translator English - Russian: рыскать
• Translator English - Portuguese: vasculhar
• Translator English - Bengali: পরিমার্জন
• Translator English - French: battre
• Translator English - Malay: Menggaru
• Translator English - German: absuchen
• Translator English - Japanese: 徹底的に調査する
• Translator English - Korean: 샅샅이 뒤지다
• Translator English - Javanese: Scour
• Translator English - Vietnamese: sự lau
• Translator English - Tamil: கிண்ணங்களை
• Translator English - Marathi: घासूनपुसून स्वच्छ करणे
• Translator English - Turkish: koşuşturmak
• Translator English - Italian: perlustrare
• Translator English - Polish: przeszukać
• Translator English - Ukrainian: нишпорити
• Translator English - Romanian: cutreiera
• Translator English - Greek: καθαρίζω
• Translator English - Afrikaans: skure
• Translator English - Swedish: skura
• Translator English - Norwegian: skuring

2 QUOTES WITH «SCOUR»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word scour.

1

Quentin Bryce

We all go back to our roots. My father went to the central west, went to Ilfracombe in 1919. He was the manager of the wool scour there. And, Ilfracombe was right at the heart of Australia's great wool industry, and my mother was a teacher at Winton.

2

Stanley Tucci

Like Joseph Mitchell, I would scour the streets of New York and find little pieces of what other people think of as junk - and collect it.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SCOUR»

Discover the use of scour in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to scour and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Scour Manual

Specifically, this book addresses issues relating to computing and controlling the scour process near hydraulic structures, and pays special attention to the time-dependent character of the scour processes and the predictability of scour ...

G.J.C.M. Hoffmans, H.J. Verheij, 1997

Scour at Marine Structures: A Manual for Practical Applications

Scour at Marine Structures brings together the research results and the practical findings to provide practitioners and researchers with a state-of-the-art review of scour by waves and currents, and it provides methodologies to assess the ...

Richard Whitehouse, 1998

Scour and Erosion: Proceedings of the Fifth International ...

The papers presented in this book examine the scour and erosion of hillside, fluvial, estuarine, and coastal environments at the interface of water, soil, and rock.

Susan E. Burns, 2011

Scour Technology: Mechanics and Engineering Practice

This book covers the entire Scour Technology area and is prepared by one of the leading experts on the subject.

George Annandale, 2005

Effects of Debris on Bridge Pier Scour

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 653: Effects of Debris on Bridge Pier Scour explores guidelines to help estimate the quantity of accumulated, flow event debris, based on the density and type of woody ...

‎2010

Pier and Contraction Scour in Cohesive Soils

6.1 GENERAL The initial scour rate is an integral part of the SRICOS Method because it is one of the two fundamental parameters used to describe the scour depth versus time curve. The other fundamental parameter is the maximum depth of ...

‎2004

Scour at Bridge Foundations on Rock

"This report provides a methodology for estimating the time rate of scour and the design scour depth for a bridge founded on rock, as well as design and construction guidelines for application of the methodology.

Jeffrey Ray Keaton, Subhendu Kumar Mishra, Paul E. Clopper, 2012

Countermeasures to Protect Bridge Abutments from Scour

Examines selection criteria and guidelines for the design and construction of countermeasures to protect bridge abutments and approach embankments from scour damage.

Brian D. Barkdoll, R. Ettema, Bruce W. Melville, 2007

Instrumentation for Measuring Scour at Bridge Piers and ...

CONCLUSIONS Background — The Bridge Scour Evaluation Program On March 10, 1995, at about 9:00 p.m., the southbound and northbound bridges on Interstate 5 over Arroyo Pasajero in California collapsed during a large flood.

‎1997

Stream Stability and Scour at Highway Bridges

Laursen (1958) describes his research to determine local scour depths at abutments. He determined that local scour occurred at the upstream corner of the abutment. His experiments covered abutments set back from the main channel, ...

Everett V. Richardson, Peter F. Lagasse, editors

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SCOUR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term scour is used in the context of the following news items.

Dong works with UK engineer to advance scour-busting foundation

Scour, relatively well understood for traditional monopiles, remains a serious issue for complex structures like steel jackets, particularly in the greater water ... «Recharge, Jun 15»

Wits to scour foreign market

"We are looking particularly into Wits to scour foreign market the foreign market because the SA market has become impossible for us to operate in," Ferreira ... «Sowetan Live, Jun 15»

NY Prison Escape Day Six: As hundreds of police scour the area …

DANNEMORA, N.Y. — Police blocked off the main road outside a northern New York village as authorities on Thursday concentrated their sixth day of searching ... «National Post, Jun 15»

Americans Scour Tehran for Assets as Iran Opens Door

Sporting a monogrammed tie in tie-less Tehran, he could not have been mistaken for a local. As an American who remembers well the U.S. hostage crisis, ... «Bloomberg, Jun 15»

Solar-powered spacecraft to scour Europa for signs of alien life

A thermal instrument will scour Europa's frozen surface in search of recent eruptions of warmer water, while additional instruments will search for evidence of ... «Daily Mail, May 15»

Navy techs scour eBay for parts to keep 1970s vintage supply ships …

Newly released government records show that navy mechanics in Halifax had to scour the Internet and use eBay to find parts for one of its two supply ships. «CBC.ca, May 15»

HPG to scour websites for stolen vehicles for sale

Senior Supt. Arnold Gunnacao, the new HPG director, said he would deploy “techie” teams to scour such websites for transactions involving stolen vehicles. «Inquirer.net, May 15»

Volunteers Scour Satellite Images Of Nepal Earthquake To Help …

WASHINGTON, April 27 (Reuters) - More than 4,500 people have volunteered to examine 14,000 square kilometers of satellite imagery collected over Nepal to ... «Huffington Post, Apr 15»

Colorado Woman Has To Scour The Internet To Find Her Husband's …

When they had no information, those loved ones thousands of miles away from Nepal started scouring the Internet. Eventually Denver resident Vance Watt, his ... «CBS Local, Apr 15»

Fifty Mounties to scour Comox Valley in probe into woman's …

COURTENAY -- Fifty officers will scour two locations in the Comox Valley today after receiving new information about the disappearance of a 27-year-old mother ... «Vancouver Sun, Apr 15»