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Glut - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Glut : (noun)
1: the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall [syn:
oversupply, surfeit]
(verb)
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]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Glut : \Glut\, 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.
Though every drop of water swear against it, And
gape at widest to glut him. --Shak.
2. To fill to satiety; to satisfy fully the desire or craving
of; to satiate; to sate; to cloy.
His faithful heart, a bloody sacrifice, Torn from
his breast, to glut the tyrant's eyes. --Dryden.
The realms of nature and of art were ransacked to
glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded
populace. --C. Kingsley.
To glut the market, to furnish an oversupply of any article
of trade, so that there is no sale for it.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Glut : \Glut\, v. i.
To eat gluttonously or to satiety.
Like three horses that have broken fence, And glutted
all night long breast-deep in corn. --Tennyson.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Glut : \Glut\, n.
1. That which is swallowed. --Milton
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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Glut : openGL Utility library Toolkit (OpenGL, GLU)
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Example Usage of Glut |
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Zmander: The CA Chihuahua Glut was caused by celebs, the same grp that falls over each other 2 shill 4 PeTA & HSUS http://tinyurl.com/y92k325 |
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curiousdad: @JuanitaNg Was just looking at some of the fan-to-fan prices and it looks like there's a Glut for a lot of the hockey events. |
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analyticalfball: Effect of Boxing Day Glut of Matches: http://bit.ly/7wghO3 |
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