Glut

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Glut \Glut\ (gl[u^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Glutted}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Glutting}.] [OE. glotten, fr. OF. glotir, gloutir, L.
     glutire, gluttire; cf. Gr. ? to eat, Skr. gar. Cf.
     {Gluttion}, {Englut}.]
     1. To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge.
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              Though every drop of water swear against it,
              And gape at widest to glut him.       --Shak.
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     2. To fill to satiety; to satisfy fully the desire or craving
        of; to satiate; to sate; to cloy.
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              His faithful heart, a bloody sacrifice,
              Torn from his breast, to glut the tyrant's eyes.
                                                    --Dryden.
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              The realms of nature and of art were ransacked to
              glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded
              populace.                             --C. Kingsley.
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     {To glut the market}, to furnish an oversupply of any article
        of trade, so that there is no sale for it.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Glut \Glut\, v. i.
     To eat gluttonously or to satiety.
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           Like three horses that have broken fence,
           And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn.
                                                    --Tennyson.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Glut \Glut\, n.
     1. That which is swallowed. --Milton
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     2. 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.
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              A glut of those talents which raise men to eminence.
                                                    --Macaulay.
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     3. Something that fills up an opening; a clog.
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     4.
        (a) A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks. [Prov. Eng.]
        (b) (Mining) A piece of wood used to fill up behind
            cribbing or tubbing. --Raymond.
        (c) (Bricklaying) A bat, or small piece of brick, used to
            fill out a course. --Knight.
        (d) (Arch.) An arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln.
        (e) A block used for a fulcrum.
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     5. (Zool.) The broad-nosed eel ({Anguilla latirostris}),
        found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  glut
       n : the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall [syn:
           {oversupply}, {surfeit}]
       v 1: overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She
            stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on
            icecream" [syn: {gorge}, {ingurgitate}, {overindulge}, {englut},
             {stuff}, {engorge}, {overgorge}, {overeat}, {gormandize},
             {gormandise}, {gourmandize}, {binge}, {pig out}, {satiate},
             {scarf out}]
       2: supply with an excess of; "flood the market with tennis
          shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the
          Orient" [syn: {flood}, {oversupply}]
       [also: {glutting}, {glutted}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  103 Moby Thesaurus words for "glut":
     allay, batten, be infinitely repetitive, be tedious, bellyful,
     bolt, bolt down, choke, clog, cloy, congest, congestion, cram,
     crowd, deluge, devour, drag on, drench, engorge, engorgement,
     excess, fatigue, feast, fill, fill up, flood, fullness, glutting,
     gluttonize, go on forever, gobble, gorge, gormandize, gulp,
     gulp down, guttle, guzzle, hyperemia, inundate, irk, jade, jam,
     jam-pack, live to eat, more than enough, nimiety, overbrimming,
     overburden, overcharge, overdose, overfeed, overfill, overflow,
     overfreight, overfullness, overgorge, overlade, overload,
     oversaturate, overspill, overstock, overstuff, oversupply,
     overweight, pack, pall, plethora, raven, repletion, sate, satiate,
     satiation, satiety, satisfaction, satisfy, saturate, saturatedness,
     saturation, saturation point, sicken, skinful, slake, snootful,
     soak, stall, stodge, stuff, superabundance, supercharge,
     superfluity, supersaturate, supersaturation, surcharge, surfeit,
     surplus, swamp, tire, tire to death, wear, wear on, weary, wolf,
     wolf down
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  GLUT
       openGL Utility library Toolkit (OpenGL, GLU)