Glut vs Hoarding - What's the difference?
glut | hoarding |
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
(UK) A temporary fence-like structure built around building work to add security and prevent accidents to the public.
A roofed wooden shield placed over the battlements of a castle and projecting from them.
(chiefly, British) A billboard.
As nouns the difference between glut and hoarding
is that glut is heat, glow while hoarding is (uk) a temporary fence-like structure built around building work to add security and prevent accidents to the public.As a verb hoarding is
.glut
English
Noun
(en noun)- a glut of the market
- A glut of those talents which raise men to eminence.
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- (Milton)
- (Raymond)
- (Knight)
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.