Gulf

gulf
    n 1: an arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land; larger
         than a bay
    2: 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}]
    3: a deep wide chasm
    

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,
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            He then surveyed
            Hell and the gulf between.            --Milton.
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            Between us and you there is a great gulf fixed.
                                                  --Luke xvi.
                                                  26.
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   2. That which swallows; the gullet. [Obs.] --Shak.
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   3. That which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking
      eddy. --Shak.
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            A gulf of ruin, swallowing gold.      --Tennyson.
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   4. (Geog.) 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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   5. (Mining) A large deposit of ore in a lode.
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   {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.
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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
   Headwords:
    Gulf
    Gulf, FL
    Gulf County
    Gulf County, FL
    

163 Moby Thesaurus words for "gulf":
      Charybdis, Maelstrom, 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, 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, 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