| 单词 | glut |
| 释义 | glut (once / 3090 pages) vn A glut is too much of something. A glut of gas in the marketplace can lower its price. A glut of heavy metal T-shirts in your dresser, however, has nothing to do with the economy but might be a signal that it's time to clean your room. Glut comes from the Old French gloter, meaning "to swallow too much." The glottis is the part of your body where your vocal folds reside and where you swallow. If you go to the movies alone and get the family tub of popcorn, you are glutting yourself on the salty snack, but do try not to get any popcorn stuck in your glottis. Glut is used more commonly in reference to the economics of the marketplace, where an oversupply of one thing lowers prices. WORD FAMILYglut: englut, gluts, glutted, glutting+/englut: engluts, englutted, englutting USAGE EXAMPLESAt the start of the year, some predicted a glut of office space in Bellevue. Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) A glut of new construction in Brooklyn pushed landlords to offer all manner of incentives, including months of free rent, to fill buildings. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) Those margins collapsed this year in a global fuel supply glut, providing an incentive for refiners to undertake the shutdowns necessary for maintenance. Reuters(Dec 29, 2016) 1v supply with an excess of Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient Syn|Hyper flood, oversupply furnish, provide, render, supply give something useful or necessary to 2v overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself Syn|Hyper binge, englut, engorge, gorge, gormandise, gormandize, gourmandize, ingurgitate, overeat, overgorge, overindulge, pig out, satiate, scarf out, stuff eat eat a meal; take a meal 3n the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall Syn|Hyper oversupply, surfeit overabundance, overmuch, overmuchness, superabundance a quantity that is more than what is appropriate |
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