The meaning of Gulf

noun

A deep or seemingly bottomless chasm.

Usage examples:

A rope led down into the dark abyss

noun

A very deep hole that seems to have no bottom

Usage examples:

The country is sinking/plunging into an abyss of violence and lawlessness., she found herself on th…

noun

A band or bracelet worn around the upper part of a person's arm.

noun

A broad inlet of the sea where the land curves inwards.

Usage examples:

A boat trip round the bay

noun

An evergreen mediterranean shrub with deep green leaves and purple berries. its aromatic leaves are used in cooking and were formerly used to make triumphal crowns for victors.

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The experiment (conducted may - june 2000) tested whole and torn leaves from 10 bay trees, 10 oak t…

noun

A space created by a window line projecting outwards from a wall.

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Each window projects as a bay, with a base low enough to sit on and wide enough to serve as a gener…

noun

A curve or recess in a coastline, river, or other geographical feature.

Usage examples:

Days after the accident, abp issued a notice to pilots telling them they should avoid passing in bi…

noun

A curved part of a coast or river that is set back from the rest

Usage examples:

The ship backed into a little bight in the shoreline.

noun

An act of breaking or failing to observe a law, agreement, or code of conduct.

Usage examples:

A breach of confidence

verb

Make a gap in and break through (a wall, barrier, or defence).

Usage examples:

The river breached its bank

noun

A deep gorge, typically one with a river flowing through it, as found in north america.

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The grand canyon

noun

A deep valley with steep sides and usually a river flowing along the bottom

noun

An empty space within a solid object.

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The abdominal cavity

noun

A hole in a surface or a hollow inside something

Usage examples:

The abdominal/chest cavity

noun

A deep fissure in the earth's surface.

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A chasm a mile long

noun

A deep opening in earth or rock

Usage examples:

The little bridge over that deep chasm looked very unsafe.

adjective

Past and past participle of cleave1.

noun

A fissure or split, especially in rock or the ground.

Usage examples:

The third peak is divided from the eastern one by a deep cleft

verb

Split or sever (something), especially along a natural line or grain.

Usage examples:

The large axe his father used to cleave wood for the fire

noun

The state of being strikingly different from something else in juxtaposition or close association.

Usage examples:

The day began cold and blustery, in contrast to almost two weeks of uninterrupted sunshine

verb

Differ strikingly.

Usage examples:

His friend's success contrasted with his own failure

noun

An easily noticed or understood difference between two or more things

Usage examples:

[ u ] she is quite petite, in contrast with her tall sister., [ c ] contrasts between manhattan’s r…

noun

A small sheltered bay.

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Be bold and take some time to explore some of the sheltered coves and quiet bays that can be found …

noun

A man.

Usage examples:

He is a perfectly amiable cove

noun

A narrow, sheltered waterway, especially an inlet in a shoreline or channel in a marsh.

Usage examples:

A sandy beach in a sheltered creek

adjective

Relating to or denoting the creek or their language.

Usage examples:

In 1814, a creek faction, the red sticks, rose against settlers in the south but was crushed by gen…

noun

A small river or stream

noun

A deep open crack, especially one in a glacier.

Usage examples:

On good days they could travel no more than 15 miles, and they had to be ever vigilant of the deep …

noun

A very deep crack in the thick ice of a glacier (= moving mass of ice)

noun

A point or way in which people or things are dissimilar.

Usage examples:

The differences between men and women

verb

Alter (a coat of arms) to distinguish members or branches of a family.

noun

The way in which two things being compared are not the same, or the fact of not being the same

Usage examples:

[ c ] we try to teach the kids the difference between right and wrong., [ c ] we’d like better seat…

noun

The process or state of diverging.

Usage examples:

The divergence between primates and other groups

noun

A situation in which two things become different, or the difference between them increases

Usage examples:

A divergence of opinion, the figures reveal a marked divergence between public sector pay settlemen…

verb

Separate or be separated into parts.

Usage examples:

Consumer magazines can be divided into a number of categories

noun

A difference or disagreement between two groups, typically producing tension.

Usage examples:

There was still a profound cultural divide between the parties

verb

To separate into parts or groups, or to cause something to separate in such a way

Usage examples:

[ t ] divide the cake into six equal parts., [ i ] the votes divided equally for and against the pr…

noun

The action of separating something into parts or the process of being separated.

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The division of the land into small fields

noun

The separation of something into parts or groups, or one of the parts or groups that has been separated

Usage examples:

[ u ] the division of responsibilities among the officers of the company was spelled out in detail.…

noun

One of the main separate parts that a company, or group of companies, is divided into

Usage examples:

The year-on-year profit figure for the division fell by 36%., investment/services/international div…

noun

The legal dissolution of a marriage by a court or other competent body.

Usage examples:

Her divorce from her first husband

verb

Legally dissolve one's marriage with (someone).

Usage examples:

She divorced him in 1965

noun

A divorced person.

noun

The tidal mouth of a large river, where the tide meets the stream.

Usage examples:

The turtles spend most of their lives in mangrove-lined tidal estuaries, where rivers flow into the…

noun

The part of a river or other area of water where it joins the sea, and where fresh water and salt water are mixed

noun

A narrow inlet of the sea; an estuary.

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The moray firth

noun

A long strip of sea reaching into the land

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The firth of forth

noun

A long, narrow opening or line of breakage made by cracking or splitting, especially in rock or earth.

Usage examples:

The bacteria survive around vents or fissures in the deep ocean floor

verb

Split or crack (something) to form a long, narrow opening.

Usage examples:

The dry years had cracked and fissured the cliffs

noun

A deep crack, esp. one in rock or ice or in the ground

noun

A long, narrow, deep inlet of the sea between high cliffs, as in norway, typically formed by submergence of a glaciated valley.

Usage examples:

The area is made up of 14 long, narrow and incredibly deep fjords formed by massive glaciers thousa…

noun

A long strip of sea between steep hills, found especially in norway

noun

A group of ships sailing together, engaged in the same activity, or under the same ownership.

Usage examples:

The small port supports a fishing fleet

adjective

Fast and nimble in movement.

Usage examples:

A man of advancing years, but fleet of foot

noun

A marshland creek, channel, or ditch.

Usage examples:

Sam explained that the 3,000 acres of the nature reserve is the largest in the english lowlands, th…

noun

Archaic spelling of firth.

noun

A break or hole in an object or between two objects.

Usage examples:

He peeped through the gap in the curtains

noun

An empty space or opening in the middle of something or between two things

Usage examples:

Picking up speed, she closed the gap between them., she has a gap between her front teeth., after a…

noun

A difference between two numbers, amounts, or levels

Usage examples:

Forecasters are predicting a budget gap of nearly $17 bn next year., there is a $40 million shortfa…

noun

A narrow valley between hills or mountains, typically with steep rocky walls and a stream running through it.

Usage examples:

Their great pale grey slopes are breached all along the coast by a number of steep, rocky gorges wi…

verb

Eat a large amount greedily; fill oneself with food.

Usage examples:

They gorged themselves on cornish cream teas

noun

A deep, narrow valley with steep sides, usually formed by a river or stream cutting through rock

Usage examples:

The only way to cross the gorge was over a flimsy wooden bridge., [ t ] she sat in front of the tel…

noun

A ravine formed by the action of water.

Usage examples:

The tidal bore comes in faster than a galloping horse, but first wilful surging water fills gullies…

verb

(of water) make gullies or deep channels in (land).

Usage examples:

The track was gulleyed by rain

noun

A channel cut by running water, which is usually dry except after heavy rain

noun

A hollow place in a solid body or surface.

Usage examples:

The dog had dug a hole in the ground

verb

Make a hole or holes in.

Usage examples:

A fuel tank was holed by the attack and a fire started

noun

A small arm of the sea, a lake, or a river.

Usage examples:

It is a land of undulating hills and hollows, dips and drumlins, rivers, inlets, estuaries and lake…

noun

A narrow channel of water that goes from a sea or lake into the land or between islands

noun

A space or gap that allows passage or access.

Usage examples:

An opening in the roof would get rid of the smoke

adjective

Coming at the beginning of something; initial.

Usage examples:

She stole the show with her opening remark

verb

Move (a door or window) so as to leave a space allowing access and vision.

Usage examples:

She opened the door and went in

noun

A large hole in the ground.

Usage examples:

I do not see any risk of these pits becoming breeding grounds for mosquitoes.

verb

Set someone or something in conflict or competition with.

Usage examples:

You'll get the chance to pit your wits against the world champions

verb

Remove the pit from (fruit).

Usage examples:

Leave some cherries whole so people can see later on how hard you worked pitting real cherries.

noun

The property of having poles or being polar.

Usage examples:

It exhibits polarity when presented to a magnetic needle

noun

The quality in an object that produces opposite magnetic or electric charges

noun

A deep, narrow gorge with steep sides.

Usage examples:

I can hide from the patrols, using ravines and deep gorges.

noun

A deep, narrow valley with steep sides

noun

A long, narrow inlet formed by the partial submergence of a river valley.

Usage examples:

Due to their nature, the rias or estuaries contain very peculiar ecosystems which often contain imp…

abbreviation

Radioimmunoassay.

noun

A crack, split, or break in something.

Usage examples:

The wind had torn open a rift in the clouds

verb

Break apart or become separated through faulting caused by plate tectonics.

Usage examples:

The indian landmass rifted from madagascar about 90 million years ago

noun

Something that divides partners or friends

Usage examples:

The border dispute caused a rift between canada and the us.

verb

(especially of a pipe or container, or bodily part such as an organ or membrane) break or burst suddenly.

Usage examples:

If the main artery ruptures he could die

noun

An instance of breaking or bursting suddenly and completely.

Usage examples:

A small hairline crack could develop into a rupture

verb

To burst or break, or to cause something to burst or break

Usage examples:

[ i ] high winds caused the oil tank to rupture., there is a rupture in confidence in government.

noun

A split or division between strongly opposed sections or parties, caused by differences in opinion or belief.

Usage examples:

The widening schism between church leaders and politicians

noun

A division of a group into two opposing groups, esp. in a church

noun

The action or state of cutting or being cut.

Usage examples:

Budding and scission of a deflated vesicle into two smaller spherical daughters were sometimes obse…

noun

The action or state of moving or being moved apart.

Usage examples:

The damage that might arise from the separation of parents and children

noun

The action of ending a connection or relationship.

Usage examples:

The severance and disestablishment of the irish church

noun

Vibrations that travel through the air or another medium and can be heard when they reach a person's or animal's ear.

Usage examples:

Light travels faster than sound

verb

Emit or cause to emit sound.

Usage examples:

A loud buzzer sounded

adjective

In good condition; not damaged, injured, or diseased.

Usage examples:

They returned safe and sound

verb

Break or cause to break forcibly into parts, especially into halves or along the grain.

Usage examples:

The ice cracked and split

noun

A tear, crack, or fissure in something, especially down the middle or along the grain.

Usage examples:

Splits appeared in the decaying planks

proper noun

A seaport on the coast of southern croatia; population 177,500 (est. 2009). founded as a roman colony in 78 bc, it contains the ruins of the palace of the emperor diocletian, built in about ad 300.

noun

A small bay or creek in orkney or shetland.

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Sullom voe

adjective

Not valid or legally binding.

Usage examples:

The contract was void

noun

A completely empty space.

Usage examples:

The black void of space

verb

Declare that (something) is not valid or legally binding.

Usage examples:

The supreme court voided the statute