Definitions for glut
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. glutnoun

   an excess, too much

2. glutverb

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

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Glutnoun

   Etymology: from the verb.

   1. That which is gorged or swallowed.

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

   2. Plenty even to loathing and satiety.

   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.

   3. More than enough; overmuch.

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

   4. Any thing that fills up a passage.

   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.

   1. To swallow; to devour.

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

   2. To cloy; to fill beyond sufficiency; to sate; to disgust.

   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.

   3. To feast or delight even to satiety.

   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.

   4. To overfill; to load.

   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.

   5. To saturate.

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

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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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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 TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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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1. GLUT

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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. Chris Jarvis:

   It is difficult to find anyone who is bullish right now on oil, saudi Arabia has basically told the world that Saudi Arabia's full steam ahead in production. Add the global oil glut and the strong dollar weighing on commodities, and it's a one-way ticket down with nothing on the horizon to derail it.

2. Adam Pilarski:

   I can see signs of a glut emerging.

3. 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.

4. Craig Pirrong:

   The glut increases liquidity. Liquidity enhances optionality. Optionality creates value. Don't stymie this salutary development. Go with it. It will pay off in both the short term and the long term.

5. Carl Larry:

   The combination of the Chinese stock market rout and creeping crude glut is weighing on oil, that said, Brent's still seeing support above $50 and U.S. crude is staying above $45. There's a lot of hedging going on at those levels.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=glut
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Glut
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=glut
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/glut
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=glut
7. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=glut