Gulf
[gʌlf] or [ɡʌlf]
Definition
(noun.) an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding); 'he felt a gulf between himself and his former friends'; 'there is a vast disconnect between public opinion and federal policy'.
(noun.) a deep wide chasm.
(noun.) an arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land; larger than a bay.
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Definition
(n.) A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin,
(n.) That which swallows; the gullet.
(n.) That which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking eddy.
(n.) A portion of an ocean or sea extending into the land; a partially land-locked sea; as, the Gulf of Mexico.
(n.) A large deposit of ore in a lode.
Typist: Wolfgang
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Large bay.[2]. Abyss.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ABYSS]
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Definition
n. a hollow or indentation in the sea-coast: a deep place in the earth: an abyss: a whirlpool: anything insatiable: in Oxford and Cambridge examinations the place of those next to the pass but not bad enough to fail.—v.t. to engulf.—n. Gulf′-weed a large olive-brown sea-weed with stalked air-bladders.—adj. Gulf′y full of gulfs or whirlpools.—Gulf Stream a great current of warm water flowing out of the Gulf of Mexico through the Strait of Florida along the eastern coast of the United States of America then deflected near the banks of Newfoundland diagonally across the Atlantic.
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Examples
- They had no sense of the other possibility, the gulf of the republican extremists, that yawned at their feet. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She falls from the lowermost stair, and is swallowed up in the gulf. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The Gulf Stream illustrates the transference of heat by convection. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- On the 6th Sherman arrived at Grand Gulf and crossed his command that night and the next day. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The fleet followed him by sea, and rejoined him at the entrance to the Persian Gulf. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Accordingly the troops were set in motion for Hard Times, twenty-two miles farther down the river and nearly opposite Grand Gulf. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- She felt as if a great gulf lay between her caste and his, and that to cross it or meet him half-way would be to degrade herself. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The enemy had taken a strong natural position with most of the Grand Gulf garrison, numbering about seven or eight thousand men, under General Bowen. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Grand Gulf was accordingly given up as a base and the authorities at Washington were notified. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- From the Gulf of Finland to the Eastern Ocean, Russia now assumes the form of a powerful and civilized empire. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was evident that the enemy was covering a retreat from Grand Gulf to Vicksburg. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This more than doubled the distance from Grand Gulf to the high land back of Bruinsburg. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- To resume: Canby is ordered to operate to the interior from the Gulf. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- At moments she was a Calvinist, and, sinking into the gulf of religious despair, she saw darkening over her the doom of reprobation. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- They _are_ shaped like sharks, Robert Jordan thought, the wide-finned, sharp-nosed sharks of the Gulf Stream. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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