glut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: glŭt
ipa: /ɡlʌt/
ipa: [ɡlʊt]
ipa: /ɡlɐt/
ipa: /ɡləʈ/
rhymes: -ʌt
Forms: form: gluts
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English glotien /glotten, probably derived from Old French gloter /glotir /glotoiier (“to eat greedily”) [compare French engloutir (“to devour”), French glouton (“glutton”)], derived from Latin gluttiō, gluttīre (“to swallow”). Compare Russian глота́ть (glotátʹ, “to swallow”).
Senses: examples: text: a glut of the market
text: A glut of those talents which raise men to eminence.
ref: 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XI, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
text: Indeed, it was clear from the outset that anyone hoping for a repeat of last weekend's Premier League goal glut would have to look beyond St Andrew's.
ref: 2011 February 12, Les Roopanarine, “Birmingham 1 – 0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport:
text: “The glut is getting bigger every day, and now you’re starting to have to compete more on price,” says Jim Mikesell, Dog Star’s CEO. The company is looking into other uses for its crop.
ref: 2020 April 23, Aarian Marshall, “Why Farmers Are Dumping Milk, Even as People Go Hungry”, in Wired:
text: As the glut of new orders placed in the optimistic pre-pandemic years (worth billions of pounds) reaches its conclusion, production lines in Newton Aycliffe, Derby and Newport face a potentially barren future - as well as job losses that will be devastating for their communities and supply chains.
ref: 2024 March 20, Ben Jones, “Suppliers' uncertain wait for new trains”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 36:
synonyms: excess
overabundance
plethora
slew
surfeit
surplus
antonyms: lack
shortage
glosses: An excess, too much.
examples: text: And all their entrails tore, disgorging foul / Their devilish glut, […]
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 588–589:
glosses: That which is swallowed.
synonyms: clog
glosses: Something that fills up an opening.
examples: text: The white oak is laid on the ground, then rived down the middle using first an axe to create the split in the end grain, then a maul to hammer "gluts" — iron or wooden wedges — down the log's length to split it apart.
ref: 2013, Nicholas R. Bell, A Measure of the Earth, page 39:
glosses: A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.
qualifier: bricklaying
glosses: A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.
topics: architecture
glosses: An arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln.
glosses: A block used for a fulcrum.
glosses: The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla anguilla, syn. Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.
examples: text: Four goals scored by a single player in a match can be described as a 'haul', while five goals is unofficially a 'glut'.
ref: 2020 October 23, “What is a brace in soccer?”, in Goal:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Five goals scored by one player in a game.
Derived terms: infoglut
mana glut
Related terms: glutton
gluttony