'Gulf' definitions:
Definition of 'gulf'
From: WordNet
noun
An arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land; larger than a bay
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" [syn: gulf, disconnect, disconnection]
noun
A deep wide chasm
Definition of 'Gulf'
From: GCIDE
- Gulf \Gulf\ (g[u^]lf), n. [F. golfe, It. golfo, fr. Gr. ko`lpos bosom, bay, gulf, LGr. ko`lfos.]
- 1. A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin, [1913 Webster]
- He then surveyed Hell and the gulf between. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Between us and you there is a great gulf fixed. --Luke xvi. 26. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which swallows; the gullet. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. That which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking eddy. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- A gulf of ruin, swallowing gold. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Geog.) A portion of an ocean or sea extending into the land; a partially land-locked sea; as, the Gulf of Mexico. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Mining) A large deposit of ore in a lode. [1913 Webster]
- Gulf Stream (Geog.), the warm ocean current of the North Atlantic.
- Note: 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'gulf'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abysm,
- abyss,
- aperture,
- arm,
- armlet,
- arroyo,
- back stream,
- backflow,
- backwash,
- backwater,
- bay,
- bayou,
- belt,
- bight,
- boca,
- box canyon,
- breach,
- break,
- broaching,
- canyon,
- cave,
- cavity,
- chap,
- Charybdis,
- chasm,
- check,
- chimney,
- chink,
- clearing,
- cleft,
- cleuch,
- clough,
- col,
- coulee,
- couloir,
- countercurrent,
- counterflow,
- counterflux,
- cove,
- crack,
- cranny,
- crater,
- creek,
- crevasse,
- crevice,
- cut,
- cwm,
- deep,
- defile,
- dell,
- depth,
- dig,
- diggings,
- dike,
- disclosure,
- ditch,
- donga,
- draw,
- eddy,
- estuary,
- euripus,
- excavation,
- fault,
- fenestra,
- fiord,
- firth,
- fissure,
- fistula,
- fjord,
- flaw,
- flume,
- fontanel,
- foramen,
- fracture,
- frith,
- furrow,
- gap,
- gape,
- gash,
- gat,
- gorge,
- groove,
- gulch,
- gully,
- gurge,
- gut,
- harbor,
- hiatus,
- hole,
- hollow,
- incision,
- inlet,
- interval,
- joint,
- kloof,
- kyle,
- lacuna,
- laying open,
- leak,
- loch,
- lough,
- Maelstrom,
- maelstrom,
- mine,
- moat,
- mouth,
- narrow,
- narrow seas,
- narrows,
- natural harbor,
- notch,
- nullah,
- opening,
- opening up,
- orifice,
- outlet,
- pass,
- passage,
- passageway,
- pit,
- pore,
- quarry,
- ravine,
- reach,
- refluence,
- reflux,
- regurgitation,
- rent,
- rift,
- rime,
- road,
- roads,
- roadstead,
- rupture,
- scissure,
- seam,
- separation,
- shaft,
- slit,
- slot,
- slough,
- sound,
- space,
- split,
- stoma,
- strait,
- straits,
- swirl,
- throwing open,
- trench,
- twirl,
- uncorking,
- unstopping,
- valley,
- void,
- vortex,
- wadi,
- well,
- whirl,
- whirlpool,
- workings,
- yawn,
- yawning abyss
Gulf -- U.S. County in Florida
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Gulf -- U.S. County in Florida
Population (2000) :
13332
Housing Units (2000) :
7587
Land area (2000) :
554.597338 sq. miles (1436.400451 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
189.996686 sq. miles (492.089137 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
744.594024 sq. miles (1928.489588 sq. km)
Located within :
Florida (FL), FIPS 12
Location :
29.940016 N, 85.267756 W
Words containing 'Gulf'
- Gulf Breeze,
- Gulf County,
- Gulf Hills,
- Gulf Port,
- Gulf Shores,
- Gulf Stream,
- Gulf weed,
- Gulf, FL,
- arabian gulf,
- gulf coast,
- gulf of aden,
- gulf of aegina,
- gulf of akaba,
- gulf of alaska,
- gulf of antalya,
- gulf of aqaba,
- gulf of bothnia,
- gulf of california,
- gulf of campeche,
- gulf of carpentaria,
- gulf of corinth,
- gulf of finland,
- gulf of guinea,
- gulf of lepanto,
- gulf of martaban,
- gulf of mexico,
- gulf of ob,
- gulf of oman,
- gulf of riga,
- gulf of siam,
- gulf of sidra,
- gulf of suez,
- gulf of tehuantepec,
- gulf of thailand,
- gulf of venice,
- gulf states,
- gulf war,
- persian gulf,
- saronic gulf,
- Gulf Breeze, FL,
- Gulf County, FL,
- Gulf Gate Estates,
- Gulf Hills, MS,
- Gulf Park Estates,
- Gulf Port, IL,
- Gulf Shores, AL,
- Gulf Stream, FL,
- gulf of saint lawrence,
- gulf of st. lawrence,
- gulf war syndrome,
- persian gulf illness,
- persian gulf war,
- Gulf Gate Estates, FL,
- Gulf Park Estates, MS