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Gulf

noun

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

An unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding). Synonyms: disconnect, disconnection. "There is a vast disconnect between public opinion and federal policy"

A deep wide chasm.

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"Gulf" Quotes from Famous Books

... Author of a work entitled "Thermometrical Navigation," published at Philadelphia.) were the first to invite the attention of naturalists to the phenomena of the temperature of the Atlantic over shoals, and in that zone of tepid and flowing waters which runs from the gulf of Mexico to the banks of Newfoundland and the northern coasts of Europe. The observation, that the proximity of a sand-bank is indicated by a rapid descent of the temperature of the sea at its surface, is not ...

— Equinoctial Regions of America • Alexander von Humboldt

... woke a momentary rustling in the trees behind them, but otherwise this rattling of the key was the only sound audible; and at last it turned in the lock and the heavy door swung open and revealed a yawning gulf of darkness beyond. ...

— The Empty House And Other Ghost Stories • Algernon Blackwood

... gulf indeed," commented Roger de Conde, drily. "Not even gratitude could lead a king's niece to receive Norman of Torn on a footing ...

— The Outlaw of Torn • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... of rival sects And the war of clashing creeds, Is the gulf,—heaven-wide! which we descried Between their words and deeds; For He whose sacred name they bear Was known as the Prince of Peace, And what He taught, in practice wrought, Would cause all ...

— Poems • John L. Stoddard

... the safety of the sheep gone, the girl began to crawl down the dark trail. She could not see a yard in front of her, and at each step the path seemed to end in a gulf of darkness. She could not be sure she was on the trail at all, and her nerve was shaken by the experience through which she had just passed. Presently she stopped and waited, for the first time in her life definitely and physically afraid. She stood there trembling, a long, ...

— Brand Blotters • William MacLeod Raine

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