GULF

[gʌlf]

морской залив

водоворот, воронка; ненасытный аппетит

бездна, пропасть

большая залежь руды

поглощать, засасывать, всасывать в водоворот

gulf: translation

▪ big, deep, enormous, great, huge, unbridgeable, vast, wide, yawning

▪ growing, widening

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a growing gulf between the prosperous south and the declining towns of the north

▪ cultural, ideological

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the ideological gulf that separated the two branches of the movement

▪ create

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This atrocity has created a huge gulf between the two groups.

▪ widen

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Other factors widened the gulf that separated rich from poor.

▪ emphasize, illustrate

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The documentary illustrated the gulf between industrialized and developing countries.

▪ bridge

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The new degree course aims to bridge the gulf between education and industry.

▪ exist

▪ divide sb/sth, separate sb/sth

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the yawning gulf that separates the two cultures

▪ open, open up

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A gulf had opened up between the former friends.

▪ gulf between

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an unbridgeable gulf between home and school life

▪ gulf in

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the huge gulf in level between professional and amateur teams

▪ gulf of

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A gulf of mistrust still exists between them.

1. морской залив; бухта

2. 1) поэт. пучина, бездна

2) пропасть, бездна

3) пропасть, бездна, пучина; непримиримое различие

4) водоворот

3.унив. разг.

1) диплом без отличия

2) степень бакалавра без отличия

4. редк. ненасытный, волчий аппетит

5. горн. большая залежь руды

1. поглощать

2. унив. разг. присуждать диплом без отличия

gulf: translation

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

gulf: translation

gulf gulf [gʌlf] noun [countable]

1. a great difference or lack of understanding between two groups of people:

gulf between

2. a big difference between two amounts, levels etc:

gulf between