(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.
Overstock
Definition:
(n.) Stock in excess.
(v. t.) To fill too full; to supply in excess; as, to overstock a market with goods, or a farm with cattle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Its runways are now closed to the handful of private jets that brought wealthy hunting parties, some including British royals, to kill deer in the region's overstocked private estates.
(2) The slow growth rates, low mature weights and reduction in adult size is considered to be due to chronic overstocking on already denuded feed resources and to a decline in rainfall over the period.
(3) The firm is partnering with bitcoin payment platform Coinbase, one of the largest bitcoin companies, which already handles payments for clients including Overstock and Reddit .
(4) The underlying causes of overstocking of pastures and of desertification are in fact multiple and intertwined: population pressure, drought, changes in land ownership systems, social changes.
(5) The property market is depressed and overstocked, and confidence is fragile.
(6) Overstock was previously a member of Alec but let its membership lapse.
(7) Correlations between these methods were not consistent but indicated that, given the small number of data sets, all methods were sensitive enough to estimate larval availability on pasture with the exception of the tracer calf method in the overstocked 3.4-ha paddock.
(8) However, most retailers are now buying tighter, not wanting to repeat the overstock problems that left them having to slash prices last year.
(9) Nick Surgey, director of research at the nonprofit Center for Media and Democracy, said Overstock, unlike Google and many other Silicon Valley companies, had never espoused progressive values on climate change or other issues.
(10) The higher snout scores were associated with a group of recurrent husbandry factors, especially overstocking and unsatisfactory conditions in the weaner accommodation.
(11) Findings show low levels of production and reproduction and high mortality rates in a situation of deteriorating natural resources due to mismanagement and overstocking.
(12) Richards said it had been tricky dealing with the overstocks but he was “financially pleased” with his growing season.
(13) Due to a history of overstocking, the health authority had chosen, as a cost saving measure, to reduce the stock of condoms in each clinic.
(14) Price cuts from supermarkets and early Christmas discounting by overstocked high street retailers helped.
(15) Overstock confirmed it had rejoined Alec to lobby on internet sales taxation issues.
(16) These promotional copies were immediately sold secondhand to record stores and it was not uncommon for such stores to be overstocked with a new release prior to its official release as a result.
(17) Though construction has since tapered off, developers left a mall overstock in their wake.
(18) Patrick Byrne, Overstock’s chief operating officer, is chairman of the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, a free market lobby group set up by the late Nobel economist Milton Friedman that champions vouchers for education, a cause also supported by Alec.