Gulf vs Golf - What's the difference?
gulf | golf |
A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin.
* Milton
* Bible, Luke xvi. 26
(obsolete) That which swallows; the gullet.
* 1606 , , IV. i. 23:
That which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking eddy.
* Tennyson
(geography) A portion of an ocean or sea extending into the land; a partially landlocked sea; as, the Gulf of Mexico or Persian Gulf.
(mining) A large deposit of ore in a lode.
A difference, especially a large difference, between groups
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=September 7
, author=Phil McNulty
, title=Moldova 0-5 England
, work=BBC Sport
(sports) A ball game played by individuals competing against one another in which the object is to hit a ball into each of a series of (usually 18 or nine) holes in the minimum number of strokes.
The letter G in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
As nouns the difference between gulf and golf
is that gulf is a hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin while golf is a ball game played by individuals competing against one another in which the object is to hit a ball into each of a series of (usually 18 or nine) holes in the minimum number of strokes.As a verb golf is
to play golf.gulf
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(wikipedia gulf)Alternative forms
* gulph (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- He then surveyed / Hell and the gulf between.
- Between us and you there is a great gulf fixed.
- Witch's mummy, maw and gulf / Of the ravined salt sea shark,
- a gulf of ruin, swallowing gold
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