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gulf
zelfstandig naamwoord
1 gulf
An arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land; larger than a bay.
Roget 198:
interval,
interspace†;
separation
etc.
44;
break,
gap,
opening;
hole
etc.
260;
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
etc.
259;
abra†;
barranca†,
barranco†;
clove [U.S.],
gulch [U.S.],
notch [U.S.];
yawning gulf;
hiatus maxime [Lat.],
hiatus valde deflendus [Lat.];
parenthesis
etc.
(interjacence)
228†;
void
etc.
(absence)
187;
incompleteness
etc.
53.
[interval of time]
period
etc.
108;
interim
(time)
106.
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Roget 208:
depth;
deepness
etc.
adj.;
profundity,
depression
etc.
(concavity)
252.
hollow,
pit,
shaft,
well,
crater;
gulf
etc.
198;
bowels of the earth,
botttomless pit†,
hell.
soundings,
depth of water,
water,
draught,
submersion;
plummet,
sound,
probe;
sounding rod,
sounding line;
lead.
bathymetry.
[instrument to measure depth]
sonar,
side-looking sonar;
bathometer†.
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Roget 343:
land covered with water,
gulf,
gulph†,
bay,
inlet,
bight,
estuary,
arm of the sea,
bayou [U.S.],
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
etc.
(store)
636;
alberca†,
barachois†,
hog wallow [U.S.].
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Nederlands: golf, baai
Pools: gulf
2 gulf
An unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding):
— He felt a gulf between himself and his former friends.
synoniemen: disconnect, disconnection.
Nederlands: uitzetten, afzetten, afsluiten, uitschakelen, disjunctie, kloof
3 gulf
A deep wide chasm.
Nederlands: golf
Pools: czeluść
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