What's the difference between glum and glut?

Glum


Definition:

  • (n.) Sullenness.
  • (a.) Moody; silent; sullen.
  • (v. i.) To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "We don't have any reason to, to be honest," he says, with a touch of glumness.
  • (2) The old, optimistic growth forecasts were torn up, replaced by the glum admission that this year the economy will have shrunk by 0.1%.
  • (3) But it feels like a painful loss to a small community that once looked to Labour as its natural home – and which is fast reaching the glum conclusion that Labour has become a cold house for Jews.
  • (4) The AU delegation - made up of South Africa , Uganda, Mauritania, Congo-Brazzaville and Mali - left the talks looking glum, without making a public comment and to the derisive shouts of the protesters outside the hotel.
  • (5) We can see why they’re glum, but it’s not going to be a challenge for Private Eye to get a cover page joke out of it.
  • (6) They have glumly predicted precisely that outcome for some time.
  • (7) Sandwiched on a panel between the mayors of Los Angeles, Copenhagen, New York, and Johannesburg, the most rapidly converted man in the city struck out at the glums.
  • (8) (As glum centrists often observe: “He beat us twice.”) The Labour leader might not have taken his party to victory, but he has earned the right to fight again.
  • (9) Addressing a glum group of SPD supporters in Berlin, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the outgoing foreign minister and SPD candidate for chancellor, said it was a "bitter day for German social democracy".
  • (10) At times, Sarkozy had seemed tired and glum on the campaign trail.
  • (11) The mood in No 10 grew extremely glum as a steady drip of areas were declaring two points below their own predictions.
  • (12) I had expected the American guests to be in a state of hysteria, but apart from a few glumly watching CNN in the bar, hotel life went on as usual.
  • (13) Conventional understanding of politics assumes that that kind of rational argument is devastating: if you amass the historical data and the foreign examples, point to defeat after defeat for Corbynist programmes or Sanders-like candidates, surely their supporters will glumly lower their placards and come to their senses.
  • (14) I felt the same way I would if I went to a play and sat through an hour of about 50 actors filing onto the stage one by one and staring at me glumly in turn before any actual business resulted.
  • (15) He used to mock me for it, and see it as part of my characteristic glumness, which was such a contrast to his relentless enthusiasm.
  • (16) I can’t make decisions for myself”, she declares glumly.
  • (17) Prisoners' breath catches in clouds while they glumly circuit the courtyard.
  • (18) It’s melancholy because it rests on the glum admission that these two peoples, both asserting their right to self-determination, are unable to determine their own futures.
  • (19) Some contrasted his eloquence with Zuma, who looked glum each time his face was shown and roundly booed.
  • (20) The study's findings may be skewed by Dutch psychologists spending summers doing glum research rather than catching rays.

Glut


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To swallow, or to swallow greedlly; to gorge.
  • (v. t.) To fill to satiety; to satisfy fully the desire or craving of; to satiate; to sate; to cloy.
  • (v. i.) To eat gluttonously or to satiety.
  • (n.) That which is swallowed.
  • (n.) Plenty, to satiety or repletion; a full supply; hence, often, a supply beyond sufficiency or to loathing; over abundance; as, a glut of the market.
  • (n.) Something that fills up an opening; a clog.
  • (n.) A wooden wedge used in splitting blocks.
  • (n.) A piece of wood used to fill up behind cribbing or tubbing.
  • (n.) A bat, or small piece of brick, used to fill out a course.
  • (n.) An arched opening to the ashpit of a klin.
  • (n.) A block used for a fulcrum.
  • (n.) The broad-nosed eel (Anguilla latirostris), found in Europe, Asia, the West Indies, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In attempts to correlate GLUT-1 and GLUT-2 expression to beta-cell function glucose uptake and glucose-stimulated insulin release in fresh and cultured islets were measured.
  • (2) Supermarkets are slashing the price of cauliflower because a relatively warm start to the year has produced a glut of florets.
  • (3) Thus, pretranslational suppression of GLUT 4 transporter gene expression may be an important mechanism that produces and maintains cellular insulin resistance in NIDDM.
  • (4) Following micropressure application of glutamate (500 microM) in stratum lacunosum-moleculare (L-M), inhibitory postsynaptic potentials (glut-IPSPs) were recorded in CA1 pyramidal cells.
  • (5) The GLUT 7 sequence is six amino acids longer than rat liver GLUT 2, and the extra six amino acids at the C-terminal end contain a consensus motif for retention of membrane-spanning proteins in the endoplasmic reticulum.
  • (6) The results indicate that the embryonic heart is rich in GLUT-1 mRNA; whereas the adult heart contains predominantly GLUT-4 mRNA.
  • (7) In the ZDF rat, a model of NIDDM that closely resembles the human syndrome, we have previously reported profound underexpression of GLUT-2, the high-Km facilitative glucose transporter expressed by beta cells of normal animals.
  • (8) GLUT 2 occurred in all hepatocytes as a basolateral membrane protein with a gradient of high expression in the periportal area and a lower one in the perivenous part.
  • (9) In heart, GLUT-4 mRNA decreased to a greater extent than GLUT-4 protein in response to diabetes and fasting.
  • (10) Both GLUT-1 and GLUT-4 isoform content were greater in red than white muscle.
  • (11) No change in the level of GLUT-4 mRNA was detected in the plantaris muscle although increases were observed in the soleus muscle from the obese rats.
  • (12) AspT mRNA is widely distributed in the brain, but is present at high levels in GABAergic neuronal populations, some that may be glutamatergic, and in a subset of neurons which do not contain significant levels of either GAD or GluT mRNA.
  • (13) At higher doses (0.1-0.4 M), Glut induced hypotension with bradycardia in 23 out of 40 injections in both pons and MMRF.
  • (14) Western blot assay of GLUT-4 (a major isoform of glucose transporter in adipocytes) indicated that FITC (a) partially blocked insulin-dependent translocation of GLUT-4 from the intracellular site to the plasma membrane while it (b) induced a mild "insulin-like" effect.
  • (15) The increase of the GLUT-4 mRNA and the decrease in the GLUT-4 protein correlated with the rate of glucose uptake [correlation coefficient (r) = -0.55, P less than 0.01, and r = -0.44, P less than 0.05, respectively].
  • (16) In addition, both D-galactose and D-mannose are transported by GLUTs 1-3 at significant rates; furthermore, GLUT 2 is capable of transporting D-fructose.
  • (17) The amount or activity and the mRNA concentrations of Glut 4, fatty acid synthase (FAS) and acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC) were measured before and after weaning in white adipose tissue of obese and lean Zucker rats.
  • (18) In contrast, chronic insulin infusion into nondiabetic rats does not affect the number of hepatocytes expressing GLUT-1.
  • (19) Local application of glutamate (GLUT) reliably excited cells of the supraoptic nucleus.
  • (20) ASP and GLUT depolarized reversibly the cell membrane and increased its conductance.