Gulf

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive)

CIDE DICTIONARY

Gulf, n. [F. golfe, It. golfo, fr. Gr. ko`lpos bosom, bay, gulf, LGr. ko`lfos.].

•  A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin,  [1913 Webster]

  "He then surveyed
  Hell and the gulf between."  [1913 Webster]

  "Between us and you there is a great gulf fixed."  [1913 Webster]
•  That which swallows; the gullet.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
•  That which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking eddy.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

  "A gulf of ruin, swallowing gold."  [1913 Webster]
•  A portion of an ocean or sea extending into the land; a partially land-locked sea; as, the Gulf of Mexico.  [1913 Webster]
•  A large deposit of ore in a lode.  [1913 Webster]

  "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."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Gulf, n. & v.
--n.
1 a stretch of sea consisting of a deep inlet with a narrow mouth.
2 (the Gulf) the Persian Gulf.
3 a deep hollow; a chasm or abyss.
4 a wide difference of feelings, opinion, etc.
--v.tr. engulf; swallow up.

Idiom

Gulf Stream an oceanic warm current flowing from the Gulf of Mexico to Newfoundland where it is deflected into the Atlantic Ocean.

Etymology

ME f. OF golfe f. It. golfo ult. f. Gk kolpos bosom, gulf

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

Gulf

Interval

N interval, interspace, separation, break, gap, opening, hole, chasm, hiatus, caesura, interruption, interregnum, interstice, lacuna, cleft, mesh, crevice, chink, rime, creek, cranny, crack, chap, slit, fissure, scissure, rift, flaw, breach, rent, gash, cut, leak, dike, ha-ha, gorge, defile, ravine, canon, crevasse, abyss, abysm, gulf, inlet, frith, strait, gully, pass, furrow, abra, barranca, barranco, clove, gulch, notch, yawning gulf, hiatus maxime, hiatus valde deflendus, parenthesis, void, incompleteness, period, interim (time), with an interval, far between, breachy, rimose, rimulose, at intervals, longo intervallo.

Depth

N depth, deepness, profundity, depression, hollow, pit, shaft, well, crater, gulf, bowels of the earth, botttomless pit, hell, soundings, depth of water, water, draught, submersion, plummet, sound, probe, sounding rod, sounding line, lead, bathymetry, sonar, side-looking sonar, bathometer, deep, deep seated, profound, sunk, buried, submerged, subaqueous, submarine, subterranean, subterraneous, subterrene, underground, bottomless, soundless, fathomless, unfathomed, unfathomable, abysmal, deep as a well, bathycolpian, benthal, benthopelagic, downreaching, yawning, knee deep, ankle deep, beyond one's depth, out of one's depth, over head and ears, mark twine, mark twain.

Lake

N gulf, lake, land covered with water, gulf, gulph, bay, inlet, bight, estuary, arm of the sea, bayou, fiord, armlet, frith, firth, ostiary, mouth, lagune, lagoon, indraught, cove, creek, natural harbor, roads, strait, narrows, Euripus, sound, belt, gut, kyles, continental slope, continental shelf, lake, loch, lough, mere, tarn, plash, broad, pond, pool, lin, puddle, slab, well, artesian well, standing water, dead water, sheet of water, fish pond, mill pond, ditch, dike, dyke, dam, reservoir, alberca, barachois, hog wallow, lacustrine, gulf, lake, land covered with water, gulf, gulph, bay, inlet, bight, estuary, arm of the sea, bayou, fiord, armlet, frith, firth, ostiary, mouth, lagune, lagoon, indraught, cove, creek, natural harbor, roads, strait, narrows, Euripus, sound, belt, gut, kyles, continental slope, continental shelf, lake, loch, lough, mere, tarn, plash, broad, pond, pool, lin, puddle, slab, well, artesian well, standing water, dead water, sheet of water, fish pond, mill pond, ditch, dike, dyke, dam, reservoir, alberca, barachois, hog wallow, lacustrine.