What does glut mean?

Definitions for glut
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. glut, oversupply, surfeitverb

    the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall

  2. gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out, satiate, scarf outverb

    overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself

    "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream"

  3. flood, oversupply, glutverb

    supply with an excess of

    "flood the market with tennis shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient"

Wiktionary

  1. glutnoun

    an excess, too much

  2. glutverb

    To fill to capacity, to satisfy all requirement or demand, to sate.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Glutnoun

    Etymology: from the verb.

    Disgorging foul
    Their devilish glut, chain’d thunderbolts, and hail
    Of iron globes. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. vi.

    So death
    Shall be deceiv’d his glut; and with us two
    Be forc’d to satisfy his rav’nous maw. John Milton, Par. Lost.

    Let him but set the one in balance against the other, and he shall find himself miserable, even in the very glut of his delights. Roger L'Estrange, Fable 11.

    A glut of study and retirement in the first part of my life, cast me into this; and this will throw me again into study and retirement. Alexander Pope, to Swift.

    If you pour a glut of water upon a bottle, it receives little of it. Ben Jonson, Discoveries.

    The water some suppose to pass continually from the bottom of the sea to the heads of springs and rivers, through certain subterranean conduits or channels, until they were by some glut, stop, or other means, arrested in their passage. John Woodward, Natural History.

  2. To GLUTverb

    Etymology: engloutir, French; glutio, Lat. to swallow; γλύζω.

    ’Till cram’d and gorg’d, nigh burst
    With suck’d and glutted offal. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. x.

    The ambassador, making his oration, did so magnify the king and queen, as was enough to glut the hearers. Francis Bacon.

    Love breaks friendship, whose delights
    Feed, but not glut our appetites. John Denham.

    What way remove
    His settled hate, and reconcile his love,
    That he may look propitious on our toils,
    And hungry graves no more be glutted with our spoils. Dry.

    No more, my friend;
    Here let our glutted execution end. John Dryden, Æn.

    I found
    The fickle ear soon glutted with the sound,
    Condemn’d eternal changes to pursue,
    Tir’d with the last, and eager of the new. Matthew Prior.

    With death’s carcase glut the grave. John Milton.

    His faithful heart, a bloody sacrifice,
    Torn from his breast, to glut the tyrant’s eyes. Dryden.

    A sylvan scene, which, rising by degrees,
    Leads up the eye below, nor gluts the sight
    With one full prospect; but invites by many,
    To view at last the whole. John Dryden, State of Innocence.

    He attributes the ill success of either party to their glutting the market, and retailing too much of a bad commodity at once. John Arbuthnot, Art of Polite Lying.

    The menstrum, being already glutted, could not act powerfully enough to dissolve it. Boyle.

ChatGPT

  1. glut

    1) Glut refers to an excessively abundant supply of something, often more than what is needed or desired. It suggests oversupply to the point of waste. 2) In biochemistry, 'glut' can also be an abbreviation for a protein called Glutamate, which is important in body functions like protein synthesis and regulation of immune system. 3) Glut is also a verb which means to supply or fill to excess.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Glutverb

    to swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge

  2. Glutverb

    to fill to satiety; to satisfy fully the desire or craving of; to satiate; to sate; to cloy

  3. Glutverb

    to eat gluttonously or to satiety

  4. Glutnoun

    that which is swallowed

  5. Glutnoun

    plenty, to satiety or repletion; a full supply; hence, often, a supply beyond sufficiency or to loathing; over abundance; as, a glut of the market

  6. Glutnoun

    something that fills up an opening; a clog

  7. Glutnoun

    a wooden wedge used in splitting blocks

  8. Glutnoun

    a piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing

  9. Glutnoun

    a bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course

  10. Glutnoun

    an arched opening to the ashpit of a klin

  11. Glutnoun

    a block used for a fulcrum

  12. Glutnoun

    the broad-nosed eel (Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc

  13. Etymology: [OE. glotten, fr. OF. glotir, gloutir, L. glutire, gluttire; cf. Gr. to eat, Skr. gar. Cf. Gluttion, Englut.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Glut

    glut, v.t. to swallow greedily: to feast to satiety: to supply in excess:—pr.p. glut′ting; pa.p. glut′ted.n. an over-supply: anything that obstructs the passage. [L. glutīre, to swallow.]

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. glut

    A piece of wood applied as a fulcrum to a lever power. Also, a bit of canvas sewed into the centre of a sail near the head, with an eyelet-hole in the middle for the bunt-jigger or becket to go through. Glut used to prevent slipping, as sand and nippers glut the messenger; the fall of a tackle drawn across the sheaves, by which it is choked or glutted; junks of rope interposed between the messenger and the whelps of the capstan.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of glut in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of glut in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of glut in a Sentence

  1. Andrew Wilkinson:

    The market is getting sucked into a fear trade, it's really oil - is it a glut or a global slowdown? But I don't think it's symbolizing a slowdown in the global economy.

  2. Adam Pilarski:

    I can see signs of a glut emerging.

  3. Jeff Navin:

    Some of the biggest national security questions facing the country run through Piketon and Kemmerer, a Post-Soviet dealAmerican reliance on foreign enriched uranium echoes its competitive disadvantages on microchips and the critical minerals used to make electric batteries — two essential components of the global energy transition.But in the case of uranium enrichment, United States once had an advantage and chose to give it up.In the 1950s, as the nuclear era began in earnest, Piketon became the site of one of two enormous enrichment facilities in the Ohio River Valley region, where a process called gaseous diffusion was used.Meanwhile, the Soviet Union developed centrifuges in a secret program, relying on a team of German physicists and engineers captured toward the end of World War II. Its centrifuges proved to be 20 times as energy efficient as gaseous diffusion. By the end of the Cold War, United States and Russia had roughly equal enrichment capacities, but huge differences in the cost of production.In 1993, Washington and Moscow signed an agreement, dubbed Megatons to Megawatts, in which United States purchased and imported much of Russia’s enormous glut of weapons-grade uranium, which United States then downgraded to use in power plants. This provided the U.S. with cheap fuel and Moscow with cash, and was seen as a de-escalatory gesture.But it also destroyed the profitability of America’s inefficient enrichment facilities, which were eventually shuttered. Then, instead of investing in upgraded centrifuges in United States, successive administrations kept buying from Russia.ImageA mural celebrates Piketon’s gaseous diffusion plant, long ago shuttered, and United States role in the local economy.Credit... Brian Kaiser for The New York TimesImageIn the lobby at Piketon plant, a miniature display of new centrifuges.Credit... Brian Kaiser for The New York TimesThe centrifuge plant in Piketon, operated by Centrus Energy, occupies a corner of the site of the old gaseous diffusion facility. Building United States to United States full potential would create thousands of jobs, according to Centrus Energy. And it could produce the kinds of enriched uranium needed in both current and new-age nuclear plants.Lacking Piketon’s output, plants like TerraPower’s would have to look to foreign producers, like France, that might be a more politically acceptable and reliable supplier than Russia, but would also be more expensive.TerraPower sees itself as integral to phasing out climate-warming fossil fuels in electricity. Its reactor would include a sodium-based battery that would allow the plant to ramp up electricity production on demand, offsetting fluctuations in wind or solar production elsewhere.It is part of the energy transition that coal-country senators like Mr. Manchin and John Barrasso, a Wyoming Republican, are keen to fix as they eye nuclear replacements for lost coal jobs and revenue. While Mr. Manchin in particular has complicated the Biden administration’s efforts to quicken the transition away from fossil fuels, he also pushed back against colleagues, mostly Democrats, who are skeptical of nuclear power’s role in that transition, partly because of the radioactive waste it creates.

  4. John Kilduff:

    You can talk all you want about oil demand being better next year and beyond, but right now we have a heck of a glut on our hands that I think has to be priced in some more.

  5. Matt Smith of U.S.-based ClipperData:

    The latest (U.S. regulatory) CFTC data show that speculators increased their shorts (aka bearish bets) by the biggest volume on record in last week's data for WTI crude. This is the biggest increase since data began back in 2006, dragging the net long position in WTI to its lowest since February, another bearish development from the CFTC data has been gasoline positioning. Speculative positions in gasoline have moved to a record net short position as hedge funds bet on an ongoing gasoline supply glut.

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