Definition of Gulf

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Definition of Gulf

Gulf

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

That which swallows; the gullet.

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

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

A large deposit of ore in a lode.

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Gulf Quotations

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.
Johnny Cash

Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.
George H. W. Bush

This land is your land, this land is my land, From California to the New York Island. From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me.
Woody Guthrie

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
Walter Scott

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.
Condoleezza Rice

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.
Rebecca West

They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf.
James Stockdale

A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed.
Lester B. Pearson

Only the change on the international scene, the crisis in the gulf, and the strong, firm position of the United States against aggression between two Arab countries created realities that led to the Madrid Peace Conference.
Yitzhak Rabin

We were impressed with the size and scope of the Persian Gulf as we traveled to Islamabad, Pakistan.
Jon Porter

Gulf Translations

gulf in Afrikaans is golf, gholf
gulf in Danish is bugt
gulf in Dutch is golfspel, golf, inham, bocht, boezem
gulf in Finnish is lahti
gulf in French is golfe
gulf in German is Golf
gulf in Italian is golfo
gulf in Norwegian is avgrunn, havbukt
gulf in Portuguese is golfo
gulf in Spanish is golfo
gulf in Swedish is bukt

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