dictionary definitions for "glut"


From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [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]

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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