Glut vs Jade - What's the difference?
glut | jade | Synonyms |
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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(senseid)(uncountable) A semiprecious stone either nephrite or jadeite, generally green or white in color, often used for carving figurines.
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A bright shade of slightly bluish or greyish green, typical of polished jade stones.
Of a grayish shade of green, typical of jade stones.
To tire, weary or fatigue
* John Locke
(obsolete) To treat like a jade; to spurn.
(obsolete) To make ridiculous and contemptible.
* Shakespeare
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Glut is a synonym of jade.
As nouns the difference between glut and jade
is that glut is heat, glow while jade is ice cream.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.
References
jade
English
(wikipedia jade)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), error for earlierNoun
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Derived terms
{{der3, jade gate , jade green , jade plant , jade stalk , jadeite , pseudojade}}See also
(other terms of interest) * californite * greenstone * nephrite * yulan *Adjective
(-)Etymology 2
From (etyl), either a variant of (m)Eric Partridge, Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English (ISBN 1134942168, 2006) or merely influenced by it. .Per Thorson, ''Anglo-Norse studies: an inquiry into the Scandinavian elements in the modern English dialects'', volume 1 (1936), page 52: "Yad sb. Sc Nhb Lakel Yks Lan, also in forms ''yaad'', ''yaud'', ''yawd'', ''yoad'', ''yod(e)''.... [jad, o] 'a work-horse, a mare' etc. ON ''jalda'' 'made', Sw. dial. ''jäldä'', from Finnish ''elde'' (FT p. 319, Torp p. 156 fol.). Eng. ''jade'' is not related."''Saga Book of the Viking Society for Northern Research'', page 18: "There is thus no etymological connection between ME. ''j?de'' MnE. ''jade'' and ME. ''jald'' MnE. dial. ''yaud etc. But the two words have influenced each other mutually, both formally and semantically." See (m) for more.Synonyms
* (old horse) yaudVerb
(jad)- The mind, once jaded by an attempt above its power, checks at any vigorous undertaking ever after.
- (Shakespeare)
- I do now fool myself, to let imagination jade me.