Glut

Definition: Glut

Glut

Noun

1. The quality of being so overabundant that prices fall.

Verb

1. Overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself.

2. Supply with an excess of; "flood the market with tennis shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "glut" was first used: sometime in the early 14th century. (references)

GLUT

Synonyms: Glut

Instrument

Mechanical powers; lever, leverage; mechanical advantage; crow, crowbar; handspike, gavelock, jemmy, jimmy, arm, limb, wing; oar, paddle; pulley; wheel and axle; wheelwork, clockwork; wheels within wheels; pinion, crank, winch; cam; pedal; capstan; (lift); wheel; (rotation); inclined plane; wedge; screw; spring, mainspring; can hook, glut, heald, heddle, jenny, parbuckle, sprag, water wheel.

Redundancy

Verb: superabound, overabound; know no bounds, swarm; meet one at every turn; creep with, crawl with, bristle with; overflow; run over, flow over, well over, brim over; run riot; overrun, overstock, overlay, overcharge, overdose, overfeed, overburden, overload, overdo, overwhelm, overshoot the mark; (go beyond); surcharge, supersaturate, gorge, glut, load, drench, whelm, inundate, deluge, flood; drug, drug the market; hepatize.

Accumulation; (store); heap; drug, drug in the market; glut; crowd; burden.

Satiety

Verb: sate, satiate, satisfy, saturate; cloy, quench, slake, pall, glut., gorge, surfeit; bore; (weary); tire; (fatigue); spoil.

Noun: satiety, satisfaction, saturation, repletion, glut, surfeit; cloyment, satiation; weariness. spoiled child; enfant gete, enfant terrible; too much of a good thing, toujours perdrix;Noun: satiety, satisfaction, saturation, repletion, glut, surfeit; cloyment, satiation; weariness. spoiled child; enfant gete, enfant terrible; too much of a good thing, toujours perdrix; crambe repetita.

Crosswords: Glut

German (Ardor, ardour, blaze, burning ash, embers, fervency, fervor, fervour, flush, glow, heat, incandescence, passion, redness), Manx (barrier, barrier of timber), Scottish (voracity).

Glut your soul on my accursed ugliness (The Phantom of the Opera; writing credit: Gaston Leroux)

Oh, I'm a market they can't glut, (Smut; performing artist: Tom Lehrer)

Glut (1967)

Wiener Glut (1990)

Glut (1984)

Books

• Africa's Bandwidth Glut [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• Cut the Glut of E-Mail (reference)

• Data Smog: Surviving the Information Glut (reference)

• Energy - Shortage, Glut or Enough? (reference)

• Energy: Shortage, Glut, or Enough? (Information Plus Reference Series) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Glut Am Horizont [IMPORT] (reference)

• Stille Glut [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Plate 209. The Glut or Summer Herring. (Male.) Clupea aestivalis, Mitchill. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

Plate 210. The Glut Herring. (Female.) Clupea aestivalis, Mitchill. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

Business

In 1996, the housing construction industry experienced a slowdown, resulting in a glut of unsold housing units. (references)

Economic History

Bangladesh

Farmers are growing increasingly disinterested in the crop due to the continued supply glut and corresponding low prices in recent years. (references)

Saudi Arabia

The result, beginning in the mid-1980s, was a worldwide oil glut, which introduced an element of planning uncertainty for the first time in a decade. (references)

Expressions using "glut": a glut on the market ♦ become a glut on the market ♦ glut in the market ♦ glut on the market ♦ glut one's eyes with smth. ♦ glut oneself ♦ glut oneself with smth. ♦ market glut ♦ To glut the market. Additional references.

Ending with "glut": goal-glut, try-glut.

Albanian

tepri (excess, exuberance, exuberancy, overplus, redundance, redundancy, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit), ngopje (impregnation, repletion, satiation, satiety, saturation, surfeit), ngop (cloy, impregnate, palm off, sate, satiate, saturate), ngij (imbue, sate, satiate), mbytje (choke, garrotte, stifling, strangulation, submergence, submersion, suffocation, thuggee, thuggery, wreck, wrecking). (various references)

Arabic 

‏وفرة (abundance, affluence, amplitude, exuberance, generosity, liberality, opulence, opulent, plenty, profusion, pullulation, redundance, redundancy, richness, superfluity, wealth), ‏تخمة (repletion, satiation, satiety, surfeit), ‏إتخم (cloy, cram, gorge, overfeed, sate, satiate, saturate, stoke, stuff, surfeit), ‏إتخام (demarcation, fullness, fulness, saturation), ‏أكل بشره, ‏أغرق الأسواق بالسلع. (various references)

Bulgarian 

тъпча (cram, jam, ply, ram, shovel, squeeze, stodge, stuff, tread), насищам (imbue, impregnate, penetrate, permeate, satiate, saturate, slake), наводняване (flooding, inundation), пресищане (repletion, satiation), преситеност (plethora, satiety), пренасищам (supersaturate). (various references)

Chinese 

供应 (Provision, provisions, Supplied, supplies, supply, supplying). (various references)

Czech

zaplavit (flood, inundate, overflow, overwhelm, snow under, submerge, suffuse), zahltit, přesytit (cloy), přesycený trh, přesycení (satiation, satiety, surfeit), přebytek (excess, overflow, overplus, residue, surplus), nadbytek (abundance, affluence, opulence, overplus, plenty, profusion, redundance, redundancy, store, superabundance, superfluity, surplus). (various references)

Danish

oversvømmelse af markedet (glutting). (various references)

Dutch

overaanbod (glutting). (various references)

Farsi 

پاره اجر (Brickbat, Rubble), پری (Elf, Full), پرکردن (Brim, Cram, Frank, Full, Heap, Load, Stow, Stud, Stuff, Suffuse, Thwack), پرخوری (Avidity, Gorge, Gut), پرخوردن (Gorge, Overeat, Surfeit), سیرکردن (Cloy, Englut, Revolve, Roam, Sate, Satiate, Saturate), زیادی خون , عرضه بیش ازتقاضا, اشباع کردن (Imbibe, Imbue, Indoctrinate, Inundate, Steep, Suffuse), اشباع (Saturation), اشباء کردن , باحرص وولع خوردن (Gorge). (various references)

Finnish

öljyn tai kaasun liikatarjonta (glutting), öljyn ja kaasun liikatarjonta (glutting). (various references)

French

gorger, transporteur du glucose (glucose transporter), surplus, surabondance, rassasier, rassasiement, inonder, excédent de l'offre (glutting), excès, encombrer, encombrement (glutting). (various references)

German

GluT (heat, blaze, fervency, fervor, fervour, glow, passion), Glucose-Transporter (glucose transporter), schwemme (watering place), Überschwemmen (glutting), Überfüllen (glutting), Überbeanspruchen (glutting), überschwemmen (inundate, deluge, flood, to flood), übersättigung (supersaturation), übersättigen (supersaturate), überhäufe, überfluss (affluence), überfüllen (overcrowd, overfill). (various references)

Greek 

κόροσ (cloyngness, repletion, saturation, surfeit), παραγεμίζω (chock, clog, cram, engorge, fill to bursting, overstuff, pad, stuff), υπερκορεσμός (glutting, supersaturation), υπερπληρώ (cloy, overcrowd, overflow, overstock), υπερχορταίνω, χορταίνω (sate). (various references)

Hebrew 

להציף (deluge, flood, inundate, overflow, overwhelm, sluice, swamp), שפע (abundance, affluence, affluency, excess, exuberance, luxuriance, opulence, plenty, plethora, profusion, riches, superabundance, surfeit, wealth), עודף הצע, גודש (abundance, affluence, pile, plenitude, profusion, redundance, redundancy, repletion, surfeit). (various references)

Hungarian

jóllakottság (repletion, satiety, cloying). (various references)

Indonesian

persediaan (stock). (various references)

Italian

trasportatore di glucosio (glucose transporter), sazietà (satiety), saziare (satiate), saturazione (saturation), saturare (fill, saturate, stuff), eccesso (excess, immoderation, surfeit, surplus). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

荷嵩み (overstock), 満腹 (cloy). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

まんぷく (all health and happiness, cloy, full), にがさみ (overstock). (various references)

Manx

saieid (repletion, satiety), plooghey (asphyxia, asthma, choke, choking, congest, congestion, cushion, fugginess, inundate, inundation, muffle, restrain, smother, smothering, stifle, suffocate, suffocation, tamp). (various references)

Pig Latin

utglay.(various references)

Portuguese

sobrecarga (encumbrance, overburden, overcharge, overfreight, overweight, supercargo), saturar (charge, cloy, impregnate, pall, sate, satiate, saturate, soak), saturação (satiation, satiety), satisfação (satisfaction, apology), saciedade (repletion, surfeit, tedium), saciar (cloy, indulge, pall, pall on, sate, satiate, scunner, wreak), fornecimento em excesso (glutting), fartura (fleshpots, plenty, store, wealth), fartar (pamper, sate, satiate), excesso (excess, surplus), empanzinar, alimentar excessivamente, abundância (abundance, plenty), abarrotar (oversupply), abarrotamento (cram). (various references)

Romanian

ghiftui (cram, gorge, gormandize, pamper, swill), supraabundenţã (excess, plethora, superabundance, surfeit), saturare (impregnation, saturation), satura (imbue, impregnate, replete, saturate), saţ (repletion, satiety), plictisi (annoy, bore, bother, discommode, irk, pall upon, pick on, plague, pother, trouble, weary, worry, worry out), inunda (deluge, drown, float, flood, flow, flush, inundate, overflow, overrun, shower, submerge, swamp), incomoda (disturb, trouble), încãrca (bedizen, burden, charge, encumber, heap, inflate, load, load with ball, pack, pile up, prime), împovãra (burden, cumber, encumber, oppress, overload, pack, pile, weigh down, weight). (various references)

Russian 

клин (chock, cotter, gusset, key, quoin, salience, scotch, shim, wedge), пресыщение (bellyful, gorge, repletion, satiation), пресыщать избыток, пресыщать (cloy), избыток (exuberance, exuberancy, superabundance, superfluity). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

gutati (devour, gorge, gulp, guttle, ingest, swallow), prezasititi (oversaturate), prezasićenost (plethora, tiredness), pretrpati (clutter up, congest, crowd, overcrowd, overload, pile, swamp). (various references)

Spanish

transportador de glucosa (glucose transporter), superabundancia (superabundance), saturación (saturation), saciedad (satiation, satiety), saciar (satiate), plétora (plethora), hartar (satiate), exceso de oferta, exceso (excess), abarrotar (bar, overstock, pile), abarrotamiento (glutting). (various references)

Swedish

frossa (ague, gorge, revel), överfylla. (various references)

Thai

ป้อนให้เกินความต้องการ, ปริมาณมากเกินต้องการ. (various references)

Turkish

tokluk (fullness, fulness, repletion, rotundity, satiety), tıkamak (block, block up, bung, bung up, choke, choke up, clog, congest, engorge, foul, foul up, hold, jam, obliterate, obstruct, obturate, occlude, plug, plug up, seal off, Spike, spile, stop, stop up, stopple, stuff, tampon, wad), tıkınma (cramming, ingurgitation, tuck in, tucking-in), tıka basa doldurmak (choke up, clutter, clutter up, cram, encumber, gorge, pack, Stoke, tuck away), fazlalık (bulge, de trop, excess, excrescence, margin, more, overage, overbalance, overplus, oversupply, plus, residuary, super, superfluities, superfluity, supernumerary, surplus, surplusage), fazla doyurmak, doldurmak (charge, choke up, clog, complete, congest, cover in, crowd, fill, infest, infuse, line, load, point up, ram, replenish, store, stuff, throng, top up, write out), bolluk (abundance, plenty), boğmak (choke, drown, strangle). (various references)

Ukrainian

насичювати, насичення (repletion, satiation, satiety, saturation), наповнювати вщерть, надлишок (excess, nimiety, over, overage, overbalance, overflow, overmeasure, overplus, redundance, redundancy, spillover, superfluity, surfeit), достаток (abundance, affluence, competence, competency, exuberance, exuberancy, fertileness, fertility, fullness, fulness, galore, opulence, plenitude, plenty, prodigality, profusion, store, sufficiency, wealth). (various references)

Welsh

gwancio (gorge), glythinebu (gormandize). (various references)

gluttire. (various references)

gloter. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "glut": glutamate, glutamates, glutaminase, glutaminases, glutamine, glutamines, glutaraldehyde, glutaraldehydes, glutathione, glutathiones, gluteal, glutei, glutelin, glutelins, gluten, glutenous, glutens, glutethimide, glutethimides, gluteus, glutinous, glutinously, gluts, glutted, glutting, glutton, gluttonies, gluttonous, gluttonously, gluttonousness, gluttonousnesses, gluttons, gluttony. (additional references)

Words ending with "glut": englut. (additional references)

Words containing "glut": agglutinabilities, agglutinability, agglutinable, agglutinate, agglutinated, agglutinates, agglutinating, agglutination, agglutinations, agglutinative, agglutinin, agglutinins, agglutinogen, agglutinogenic, agglutinogens, conglutinate, conglutinated, conglutinates, conglutinating, conglutination, conglutinations, deglutition, deglutitions, engluts, englutted, englutting, hemagglutinate, hemagglutinated, hemagglutinates, hemagglutinating, hemagglutination, hemagglutinations, hemagglutinin, hemagglutinins, isoagglutinin, isoagglutinins, phytohemagglutinin, phytohemagglutinins. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Glut" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gaut, Ghuta, Gilot, gkutu, glart, glat, glatt, glau, Glaut, glete, glit, glok, glort, glot, glote, glott, glox, glt, glu, glub, gluc, gluf, glug, gluk, glunt, Glushko, glute, glutz, gluv, Gmut, gnut, Gollut, gput, grut, Gulg, guth, gutt, Gyuto, igluk, iglut, lut. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: gul, gut, lug, tug.

-2 letters: ut.

+1 letter: gault, glout, gluts, guilt.

+2 letters: englut, gaults, glouts, glutei, gluten, guglet, guilts, guilty, gullet, guttle, luting, putlog.

+3 letters: butling, claught, eluting, engluts, fluting, fulgent, gallnut, gauntly, glouted, gluepot, gluiest, gluteal, glutens, gluteus, glutted, glutton, goutily, gruntle, guglets, gullets, gurglet, gustily, gutless, gutlike, gutsily, guttled, guttler, guttles, languet, liturgy, louting, lunting, lusting, lutings, nutgall, outglow, putlogs, tegular, teughly, toughly, tugless, ugliest, uplight, vulgate.