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Gulf

noun

An arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land; larger than a bay.

An unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding). Synonyms: disconnect, disconnection. "There is a vast disconnect between public opinion and federal policy"

A deep wide chasm.

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... (a Hohenzollern by descent) conceded direct communication through his territories between Berlin and Constantinople: in 1899 a German company obtained a concession for the Bagdad railway from Konieh to the head of the Persian Gulf. In a word, Germany began to stand in the way of the Russian traditions of ousting the Turk and ruling in Constantinople: she began to buttress the Turk, to train his army, to exploit his country, and to seek to oust Russia ...

— Why We Are At War (2nd Edition, revised) • Members of the Oxford Faculty of Modern History

... sailor and nothing else. Had his character been cut out of cardboard the line of division between the sailor and the rest of the world could not have been more sharply marked. That was perhaps why the two men, though divided by a vast social gulf, were friends, almost chums. ...

— The Beach of Dreams • H. De Vere Stacpoole

... be suspected of any desire to prophesy too smooth things. It is no object of ours to bridge over the gulf between belief in the vulgar theology and disbelief. Nor for a single moment do we pretend that, when all the points of contact between virtuous belief and virtuous disbelief are made the most of that good faith will allow, there will not still and after all remain a terrible ...

— On Compromise • John Morley

... The hollow, threatening sound grew ever louder and clearer, until it suddenly shattered the stillness of the night with a thunderous roar, which seemed to bring everything crashing down. It was as though a great gulf had opened ...

— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo

... of the money that, on account of his recommendation, he advanced to the runaway converts. And the parson, to be revenged on Gulvert, on next meeting day called on the congregation for their prayers, to save said Gulvert from the relapsing gulf into which he had fallen. The parson, enraged at being held accountable for the money lost by Gulvert, through his own "want of godliness," as he termed it, and incensed on account of Gulvert's declaration of deserting his church, held him up continually as a stray sheep, ...

— The Cross and the Shamrock • Hugh Quigley

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