Amount vs Glut - What's the difference?
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The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard English).
A quantity or volume.
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To total or evaluate.
To be the same as or equivalent to.
(obsolete) To go up; to ascend.
* Spenser
an excess, too much
* Macaulay
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That which is swallowed.
Something that fills up an opening; a clog.
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 latirostris ), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.
(Webster 1913)
To fill to capacity, to satisfy all requirement or demand, to sate.
* Charles Kingsley
To eat gluttonously or to satiety.
* Tennyson
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As nouns the difference between amount and glut
is that amount is the total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard english) while glut is heat, glow.As a verb amount
is to total or evaluate.amount
English
(Quantity)Noun
(en noun)How algorithms rule the world, passage=The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives.
- The final amount of students who have participated to mobility for the period 1995-1999 is held to be around 460 000.
Derived terms
* principal amount * notional amountVerb
(en verb)- It amounts to three dollars and change.
- He was a pretty good student, but never amounted to much professionally.
- His response amounted to gross insubordination
- So up he rose, and thence amounted straight.
Derived terms
* amount toSee also
* extent * magnitude * measurement * number * quantity * sizeExternal links
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English
Noun
(en noun)- a glut of the market
- A glut of those talents which raise men to eminence.
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Synonyms
* excess, overabundance, plethora, slew, surfeit, surplusAntonyms
* lack * shortageVerb
- to glut one's appetite
- The realms of nature and of art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace.
- Like three horses that have broken fence, / And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn.