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Enough vs Glut - What's the difference?

enough | glut |

As a determiner enough

is sufficient; all that is required, needed, or appropriate.

As an adverb enough

is sufficiently.

As a pronoun enough

is a sufficient or adequate number, amount, etc.

As an interjection enough

is stop! don't do that anymore, etc.

As a noun glut is

heat, glow.

enough

English

Alternative forms

* (l) * (l) (obsolete) * (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)

Determiner

(en determiner)
  • Sufficient; all that is required, needed, or appropriate.
  • * Bible, (Gospel of Luke) xv. 17
    • How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare!
  • * , chapter=16
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The preposterous altruism too!
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=15 citation , passage=‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough ! […] What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’}}

    Adverb

    (head)
  • Sufficiently.
  • :
  • *, chapter=5
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.}}
  • Fully; quite; used to express slight augmentation of the positive degree, and sometimes equivalent to very .
  • :
  • *(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
  • *:I know you well enough ; you are Signior Antonio.
  • *
  • *:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”

    • Usage notes

    * As an adverb, enough always follows the verb it qualifies.

    Pronoun

    (English Pronouns)
  • A sufficient or adequate number, amount, etc.
    • I have enough to keep me going .

    Interjection

  • stop! Don't do that anymore, etc.
    • Enough !

    Statistics

    * English words prefixed with y- 1000 English basic words

    glut

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • an excess, too much
    • a glut of the market
  • * Macaulay
    • A glut of those talents which raise men to eminence.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=February 12 , author=Les Roopanarine , title=Birmingham 1 - 0 Stoke , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Indeed, it was clear from the outset that anyone hoping for a repeat of last weekend's Premier League goal glut would have to look beyond St Andrew's. }}
  • That which is swallowed.
    • (Milton)
  • 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.
    • (Raymond)
  • (bricklaying) A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.
    • (Knight)
  • (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)

    Synonyms

    * excess, overabundance, plethora, slew, surfeit, surplus

    Antonyms

    * lack * shortage

    Related terms

    * glutton * gluttony

    Verb

  • To fill to capacity, to satisfy all requirement or demand, to sate.
    • to glut one's appetite
  • * Charles Kingsley
    • The realms of nature and of art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace.
  • To eat gluttonously or to satiety.
  • * Tennyson
    • Like three horses that have broken fence, / And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn.

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