glut
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
ball-games
business
economics
games
hobbies
lifestyle
mining
sciences
soccer
sports
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: gluts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gluts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: glutting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: glutted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: glutted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An excess, too much.
pos: noun
examples: a glut of the market
A glut of those talents which raise men to eminence.
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.
“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.
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.
gloss: That which is swallowed.
pos: noun
examples: And all their entrails tore, disgorging foul / Their devilish glut, […]
gloss: Something that fills up an opening.
pos: noun
gloss: A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.
pos: noun
gloss: A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.
pos: noun
gloss: An arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln.
pos: noun
gloss: A block used for a fulcrum.
pos: noun
gloss: The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla anguilla, syn. Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: Five goals scored by one player in a game.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: Four goals scored by a single player in a match can be described as a 'haul', while five goals is unofficially a 'glut'.
gloss: To fill to capacity; to satisfy all demand or requirement; to sate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to glut one's appetite
Come Kings and Baſſoes, let vs glut our ſwords
That thirſt to drinke the feeble Perſeans blood.
[T]he realms of nature and of art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace.
gloss: To provide (a market) with so much of a product that the supply greatly exceeds the demand.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To eat gluttonously or to satiety.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: And then we stroll'd / From room to room: in each we sat, we heard / The grave Professor. [...] / Till like three horses that have broken fence, / And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn, / We issued gorged with knowledge, [...]
Related words: glutton
gluttony
Derived words: infoglut
mana glut
englut
glutter
gluttingly
inglut
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