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n. - An unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding); A deep wide chasm; An arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land.

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  • Imagine your own four mile private sandy beach with a sparkling sea warmed by the gulf stream.
  • He felt a gulf between himself and his former friends
  • This little area of red that you see here on the map, this is what we call the gulf loop current.
  • It looks fearfully near of kin to us, and yet the gulf is measureless.
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  • I like to play "golf" (a game using clubs to hit a ball) near the "gulf" (a waterway).
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