Definitions for GULF
gʌlfgulf

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:2.7 / 3 votes

1. gulfnoun

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

2. gulf, disconnect, disconnectionnoun

   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"

3. gulfnoun

   a deep wide chasm

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. gulfnoun

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

2. gulfnoun

   That which swallows; the gullet.

3. gulfnoun

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

4. gulfnoun

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

5. gulfnoun

   A large deposit of ore in a lode.

6. Etymology: From golfe, from golfo, from colfos, from κόλπος.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. GULFnoun

   Etymology: golfo, Italian.

   1. A bay; an opening into land.

   Pisaurius, the Venetian admiral, knowing himself unable to encounter with the Turks great fleet at sea, withdrew himself farther off from the island Corfu, into the gulf of the Adriatick. Richard Knolles, History of the Turks.

   2. An abyss; an unmeasurable depth.

   Thence turning back, in silence soft they stole,
   And brought the heavy corse with easy pace
   To yawning gulf of deep Avernus’ hole;
   By that same hole, an entrance dark and base,
   With smoak and sulphur hiding all the place,
   Descends to hell. Fairy Queen, b. i. cant. 5.

   I know thou’d’st rather
   Follow thine enemy in a fiery gulf,
   Than flatter him in a bower. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

   This is the gulf through which Virgil ’s Alecto shoots herself into hell: the fall of waters, the woods that encompass it, are all in the description. Joseph Addison, on Italy.

   The sea could not be much narrower than it is, without a great loss to the world; and must we now have an ocean of mere flats and shallows, to the utter ruin of navigation, for fear our heads should turn giddy at the imagination of gaping abysses and unfathomable gulfs? Richard Bentley.

   3. A whirlpool; a sucking eddy.

   England his approaches makes as fierce
   As waters to the sucking of a gulf. William Shakespeare, Henry V.

   4. Any thing insatiable.

   Scull of dragon, tooth of wolf,
   Witches mummy; maw and gulf
   Of the ravening salt sea shark;
   Root of hemlock, digg’d i’ th’ dark. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

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1. Gulf

   A gulf is a large inlet from the ocean into the landmass, typically with a narrower opening than a bay, but that is not observable in all geographic areas so named. The term gulf was traditionally used for large highly-indented navigable bodies of salt water that are enclosed by the coastline. Many gulfs are major shipping areas, such as the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Finland, and Gulf of Aden.

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1. gulf

   A gulf is a large area of a sea or ocean that is partially enclosed by land. It is typically larger than a bay and often forms a crucial part of a country's geography due to its potential for ports and harbours for trade, shipping, and transportation.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Gulfnoun

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

2. Gulfnoun

   that which swallows; the gullet

3. Gulfnoun

   that which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking eddy

4. Gulfnoun

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

5. Gulfnoun

   a large deposit of ore in a lode

6. Etymology: [F. golfe, It. golfo, fr. Gr. ko`lpos bosom, bay, gulf, LGr. ko`lfos.]

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1. Gulf

   Gulf is a novella by Robert A. Heinlein, originally published as a serial in the November and December 1949 issues of Astounding Science Fiction. It concerns a secret society of geniuses who act to protect humanity. The novel Friday, written in 1982, was loosely a sequel.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Gulf

   gulf, 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. [O. Fr. golfe—Late Gr. kolphos—Gr. kolpos, the bosom.]

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. gulf

   A capacious bay, and sometimes taking the name of a sea when it is very extensive; such are the Euxine or Black Sea, otherwise called the Gulf of Constantinople; the Adriatic Sea, called also the Gulf of Venice; the Mediterranean is itself a prodigious specimen. A gulf is, strictly speaking, distinguished from a sea in being smaller, and from a bay in being larger and deeper than it is broad. It is observed that the sea is always most dangerous near gulfs, from the currents being penned up by the shores.

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1. GULF

   What does GULF stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the GULF acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Matched Categories

1. • Body Of Water
   • Chasm
   • Disparity
   • Sea

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'GULF' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3931

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'GULF' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4035

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of GULF in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of GULF in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of GULF in a Sentence

1. Daveed Gartenstein-Ross:

   Most charities [supporting radical Islam] in the Gulf are aligned with Al Qaeda, not ISIS.

2. Hossein Kanani Moghadam:

   We have a lot of capabilities, oil transit lines are very vulnerable in the Persian Gulf area... so we wouldn't need to use advanced weapons.

3. Michael Tran:

   The fall in U.S. shale production, particularly in Texas and North Dakota, will continue to overshadow the growth in the Gulf as shale production continues to fall at a steeper and steeper pace in the months to come.

4. Emad Mostaque:

   It seems to me that the spending will continue in the Gulf...There are plenty of stocks in the Gulf and neighbouring regions offering huge dividend returns that will likely be the stars of next year in (hopefully) a less volatile manner.

5. Nasser Bourita:

   I think it is clear that the interference of Iran in the internal affairs of the Arab and Muslim countries won’t stop in (the) Middle-East and in the Gulf Countries.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=GULF
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gulf
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=GULF
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/GULF
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=GULF
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=GULF
9. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=GULF