Gulf

[gʌlf] or [ɡʌlf]

解释:

(noun.) an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding); 'he felt a gulf between himself and his former friends'; 'there is a vast disconnect between public opinion and federal policy'.

(noun.) a deep wide chasm.

(noun.) an arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land; larger than a bay.

丹整理--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin,

(n.) That which swallows; the gullet.

(n.) That which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking eddy.

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

(n.) A large deposit of ore in a lode.

编辑:沃尔夫冈

同义词及近义词：

n. [1]. Large bay.[2]. Abyss.

贝妮塔整理

同义词及反义词：

[See ABYSS]

桃瑞丝整理

解释:

n. a hollow or indentation in the sea-coast: a deep place in the earth: an abyss: a whirlpool: anything insatiable: in Oxford and Cambridge examinations the place of those next to the pass but not bad enough to fail.—v.t. to engulf.—n. Gulf′-weed a large olive-brown sea-weed with stalked air-bladders.—adj. Gulf′y full of gulfs or whirlpools.—Gulf Stream a great current of warm water flowing out of the Gulf of Mexico through the Strait of Florida along the eastern coast of the United States of America then deflected near the banks of Newfoundland diagonally across the Atlantic.

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