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glut en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ɡlʌt/ (Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation, Scotland)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ɡlɐt/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
  • /ɡləʈ/ (India)
  • (US) audio
  • glŭt
  • [ɡlʊt] (Northern-England)

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”).

Meanings

  1. An excess, too much.
    • “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. 2020 April 23, Aarian Marshall, “Why Farmers Are Dumping Milk, Even as People Go Hungry”, in Wired:
    • a glut of the market
    • 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. 2024 March 20, Ben Jones, “Suppliers' uncertain wait for new trains”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 36:
    • A glut of those talents which raise men to eminence. 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:
    • 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. 2011 February 12, Les Roopanarine, “Birmingham 1 – 0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport:
  2. That which is swallowed.
    • And all their entrails tore, disgorging foul / Their devilish glut, […] 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:
  3. Something that fills up an opening.
  4. A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
    • 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. 2013, Nicholas R. Bell, A Measure of the Earth, page 39:
  5. A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.
  6. (qualifier:bricklaying) A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.
  7. An arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln.
  8. A block used for a fulcrum.
  9. The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla anguilla, syn. Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.
  10. (UK) Five goals scored by one player in a game.
    • Four goals scored by a single player in a match can be described as a 'haul', while five goals is unofficially a 'glut'. 2020 October 23, “What is a brace in soccer?”, in Goal:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
gluts Number=Plur lexicographic

Antonyms

lack · shortage

Deriveds

infoglut · mana glut

Relateds

gluttony · glutton

Synonyms

overabundance · plethora · surfeit · excess · slew · clog · surplus

Translations (27)

it sazietà (excess) · cs nadbytek (excess) · it pletora (excess) · ru засор (something that fills up an opening; a clog) · de Überschuss (excess) · fi tuke (something that fills up an opening; a clog) · pt excesso (excess) · nl wig (wooden wedge used in splitting blocks) · ru изли́шество (excess) · cs přebytek (excess) · de Überfluss (excess) · cs přesycení (trhu) (excess) · it scorpacciata (excess) · de Schwemme (excess) · it eccesso (excess) · fi liika (excess) · nl overmaat (excess) · nl oververzadiging (excess) · fi tukos (something that fills up an opening; a clog) · nl slok (that which is swallowed) · fi halkaisukiila (wooden wedge used in splitting blocks) · bg насищане (excess) · fi ankerias (broad-nosed eel) · nl blok (mining: piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing) · fi ylijäämä (excess) · pdt Äwafluss (excess) · fi ylimääräinen (excess)

glut en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ɡlʌt/ (Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation, Scotland)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ɡlɐt/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
  • /ɡləʈ/ (India)
  • (US) audio
  • glŭt
  • [ɡlʊt] (Northern-England)

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”).

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To fill to capacity; to satisfy all demand or requirement; to sate.
    • Come Kings and Baſſoes, let vs glut our ſwords That thirſt to drinke the feeble Perſeans blood. c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:
    • to glut one's appetite
    • [T]he realms of nature and of art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace. 1852 January – 1853 April, Charles Kingsley, Jun., “Preface”, in Hypatia: Or, New Foes with an Old Face. […], volume I, London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son, […], published 1853, →OCLC, page ix:
  2. (transitive) To provide (a market) with so much of a product that the supply greatly exceeds the demand.
  3. (intransitive) To eat gluttonously or to satiety.
    • 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, [...] 1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Part II”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 42:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
glutted Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
glutted Tense=Past lexicographic
glutting Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
gluts Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Deriveds

glutter · gluttingly · inglut · englut

Translations (22)

de befriedigen (to fill to capacity — see also sate) · kea farta (to fill to capacity — see also sate) · ga anluchtaigh (to eat gluttonously) · ga calc (to provide with so much of a product that the supply greatly exceeds the demand) · fr gargantuer (to eat gluttonously) · pt saciar (to fill to capacity — see also sate) · ja 飽食する (to fill to capacity — see also sate) · cs přesytit (to provide with so much of a product that the supply greatly exceeds the demand) · de sättigen (to fill to capacity — see also sate) · cs zahltit (to provide with so much of a product that the supply greatly exceeds the demand) · fr inonder (to provide with so much of a product that the supply greatly exceeds the demand) · bg пресищам (to fill to capacity — see also sate) · mi apu (to eat gluttonously) · es saciar (to fill to capacity — see also sate) · gd sàsaich (to fill to capacity — see also sate) · bg насищам (to fill to capacity — see also sate) · de stillen (to fill to capacity — see also sate) · pt empanturrar-se (to eat gluttonously) · es glotonear (to eat gluttonously) · de überschwemmen (to provide with so much of a product that the supply greatly exceeds the demand) · ga anluchtaigh (to fill to capacity — see also sate) · de auffüllen (to fill to capacity — see also sate)