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1. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
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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2. U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000) |
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
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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 |
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Common Misspellings > |
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