Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To fill beyond capacity, especially with food; satiate.
- intransitive verb To flood (a market) with an excess of goods so that supply exceeds demand.
- intransitive verb To eat or indulge in something excessively.
- noun An oversupply.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To swallow; especially, to swallow greedily.
- To fill to the extent of capacity; feast or delight to satiety; sate; gorge: as, to
glut the appetite. - To saturate.
- To feast to satiety; fill one's self to cloying.
- noun A glutton.
- noun A swallowing; that which has been swallowed.
- noun More of something than is desired; a super-abundance; so much as to cause displeasure or satiety, etc.; specifically, in com., an over-supply of any commodity in the market; a supply above the demand.
- noun The state of being glutted; a choking up by excess; an engorgement.
- noun A thick wooden wedge used for splitting blocks.
- noun Nautical: A piece of wood employed as a fulcrum in order to obtain a better lever-power in raising any body, or a piece of wood inserted beneath the thing to be raised in order to prevent its recoil when freshening the nip of the lever.
- noun A becket or thimble fixed on the after side of a topsail or course, near the head, to which the bunt-jigger is hooked to assist in furling the sail.—
- noun In brickmaking: A brick or block of small size, used to complete a course.
- noun A crude or green pressed brick. C. T. Davis, Bricks and Tiles, p. (69.—
- noun The broad-nosed eel, Anguilla latirostris.
- noun The offal or refuse of fish.
- noun A block, usually of bronze, in one face of which is a recess to receive the upset end of the valve- rod in a knuckle-joint. The glut is tightened by a wedge and screw, or by a key.
- To choke or partially fill up, as an enginecylinder or condenser-tube by a carbonaceous deposit from inferior oils used in lubrication.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun That which is swallowed.
- noun Plenty, to satiety or repletion; a full supply; hence, often, a supply beyond sufficiency or to loathing; over abundance.
- noun Something that fills up an opening; a clog.
- noun Prov. Eng. A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
- noun (Mining) A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.
- noun (Bricklaying) A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.
- noun (Arch.) An arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln.
- noun A block used for a fulcrum.
- noun (Zoöl.) The broad-nosed eel (
Anguilla latirostris ), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc. - intransitive verb To eat gluttonously or to satiety.
- transitive verb To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge.
- transitive verb To fill to satiety; to satisfy fully the desire or craving of; to satiate; to sate; to cloy.
- transitive verb to furnish an oversupply of any article of trade, so that there is no sale for it.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun an
excess , too much - verb To fill to
capacity , tosatisfy all requirement or demand, tosate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb supply with an excess of
- verb overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself
- noun the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But this is precisely what is meant by the term glut, which, in this case, is evidently general not partial ...
SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page Brad DeLong 2010
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As we keep mentioning, the only glut is over-graded dreck.
THE PORTLAND ANA MID WINTER SHOW : Coin Collecting News 2009
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Slow sales of electric cars or other plug-ins could easily lead to a near-term glut of charger sellers, said Mike Omotoso , a powertrain analyst with research firm J.D. Power and Associates.
GE, Siemens Set Challenge to Car Charger Start-Ups Mike Ramsey 2011
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That glut is only going to grow as more banks fail.
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Meanwhile, Fortescue's biggest rivals, BHP Billiton Ltd. and Rio Tinto PLC, are expanding mines in the Pilbara, adding to fears of a near-term glut of iron ore.
Fortescue's Forrest Exits as CEO at Pivotal Time David Winning 2011
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That policy has created at least a short-term glut of equipment on the market.
Caterpillar Profit Jumps 44% on Revenue Surge James R. Hagerty 2011
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We're now in the home stretch toward the 2008 holiday season, which means the traditional gaming glut is about to be unleashed on wallets everywhere.
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* Perhaps one of the reasons for the inventory glut is that New Orleans 'professional class is discouraged by Nagin, Blanco and Bush's handling of the "recovery", and they are fed up and leaving (or just not returning).
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We had a rare if not unheard of combination of apple blossom and calm storm-free weather, this means the fruit has set in glut proportions.
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We had a rare if not unheard of combination of apple blossom and calm storm-free weather, this means the fruit has set in glut proportions.
brtom commented on the word glut
The prudence of the greatest poet answers at last the craving and glut of the soul, puts off nothing ... Whitman, Preface 1855
December 9, 2006
skipvia commented on the word glut
A wooden splitting wedge.
November 20, 2007
mohitanand commented on the word glut
an excessive supply
The Internet offers such a glut of news related stories that many find it difficult to know which story to read first.
October 12, 2016