glut
IPA: gɫˈʌt
noun
- An excess, too much.
- That which is swallowed.
- Something that fills up an opening.
- A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
- (mining) A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.
- (bricklaying) A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.
- (architecture) An arched opening to the ashpit of a kiln.
- A block used for a fulcrum.
- The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla anguilla, syn. Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.
- (Britain, soccer) Five goals scored by one player in a game.
verb
- (transitive) To fill to capacity; to satisfy all demand or requirement; to sate.
- (transitive, economics) To provide (a market) with so much of a product that the supply greatly exceeds the demand.
- (intransitive) To eat gluttonously or to satiety.
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Examples of "glut" in Sentences
- This was all a result of the oil glut.
- A glut existed in the world oil market.
- It also reduces glut in the information box.
- A glut in production led to a collapse in the price in 1921.
- The article has an excessive glut of unnecessary information.
- He wrote that the main cause of the glut was declining consumption.
- The only obstruction to understanding is a glut of ridiculous jargon.
- Was it just a bandwagon thing that led to the glut in overproduction
- As in the past, the works project a tactile indulgence in fanciful glut.
- The settings is excessive detail and a huge indiscriminate glut of information.
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