gulf

[gulf]

Deep, wide and often filled with water, a gulf is any vast and seemingly unbridgeable area.

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A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin,

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"

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a deep wide chasm

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an arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land; larger than a bay

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A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin,

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That which swallows; the gullet.

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That which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking eddy.

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A portion of an ocean or sea extending into the land; a partially land-locked sea; as, the Gulf of Mexico.

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A large deposit of ore in a lode.

Gulf

Gulf , n. [F. golfe, It. golfo, fr. Gr. bosom, bay, gulf, LGr. .] 1. A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin,

He then surveyed Hell and the gulf between.

Between us and you there is a great gulf fixed.

2. That which swallows; the gullet. [Obs.] Shak. 3. That which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking eddy. Shak.

A gulf of ruin, swallowing gold.

4. (Geog.) A portion of an ocean or sea extending into the land; a partially land-locked sea; as, the Gulf of Mexico. 5. (Mining) A large deposit of ore in a lode. Gulf Stream (Geog.), the warm ocean current of the North Atlantic. It originates in the westward equatorial current, due to the trade winds, is deflected northward by Cape St. Roque through the Gulf of Mexico, and flows parallel to the coast of North America, turning eastward off the island of Nantucket. Its average rate of flow is said to be about two miles an hour. The similar Japan current, or Kuro-Siwo, is sometimes called the Gulf Stream of the Pacific. -- Gulf weed (Bot.), a branching seaweed (Sargassum bacciferum, or sea grape), having numerous berrylike air vessels, -- found in the Gulf Stream, in the Sargasso Sea, and elsewhere.

A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin,

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Usage Examples

It is impossible to exaggerate the wide, and widening, gulf between the American attitude on the Iraq war and the view from our friends across the Atlantic.

As I have said for many years throughout this land, we're borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the future of human civilization. Every bit of that has to change.

There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.

But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.

I have no doubt that the government of this great nation will work with its people to lead New Orleans and the Gulf Coast back to an enlightened, proud, safe part of the world.

Everybody in America is going to have to sacrifice to help us rebuild the Gulf Coast. Every government program, every individual, we are all going to have to sacrifice.

Law is stable the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed.

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Other Usage Examples

Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area. In fact, as of the writing of this column, millions of people along the Gulf Coast have been displaced from their homes in a period of only five days.

There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed the sad reality of poverty in America. We saw, in all its horrific detail, the vulnerabilities of living in inadequate housing and the heartbreak of losing one's home.

I can remember when I was National Security Adviser, the intelligence community told us... they put out an intelligence report saying that Iran would never back off from attacks on shipping in the Gulf if we use force.

It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam Hussein. Every obligation that he signed onto after the Gulf War, so that he would not be a threat to peace and security, he has ignored and flaunted.

I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false.

I would not plan to base my campaign primarily on opposition to the war in the Persian Gulf.

In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.