What's the difference between chasm and gulf?

Chasm


Definition:

  • (n.) A deep opening made by disruption, as a breach in the earth or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure.
  • (n.) A void space; a gap or break, as in ranks of men.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Raising the minimum wage is the right way to begin closing the economic chasm between America's wealthy and regular working people.
  • (2) But recent high-level talks exposed the chasm that exists between Moscow and Tokyo.
  • (3) The following myths are discussed and refuted: (1) There is an insurmountable community-research chasm.
  • (4) It is the old right who are saying that they are ready to serve because they cannot bear the idea of letting go of the party machinery.” The resentment growing within the parliamentary party between those who will serve and those who will not has led to John Woodcock MP, chair of the Blairite group, Progress, to warn of the emergence of a new split to replace the Blair-Brown chasm that marked the last two decades of Labour politics.
  • (5) It was a superb team goal, showed Arsenal at their counterattacking best, and emphasised the chasm in class.
  • (6) In fact, the gender pay gap remains a yawning chasm.
  • (7) We chat about the maps I've seen so far; the abandoned sports stadium in StrikeZone, the wrecked cityscape in Chasm … How do these designs start?
  • (8) David Orr, chief executive of the National Housing Federation said the figures were “yet another symptom of a very sick housing market that is carving ever-greater chasms between those who own a home and those who don’t”.
  • (9) The recent report on inequality in the UK by John Hills, professor of social policy at the London School of Economics, charting how the rich-poor chasm has widened over the last 35 years, exposed the fact that every family in the top 10% now possesses at least 100 times more than any family in the bottom tenth.
  • (10) One Whitehall source said the tests set out by Carney had opened up a chasm between what was required for a currency union and the previously vague undertakings by the Scottish government to agreeing on borrowing limits and financial regulations.
  • (11) It was clearly more than just a half a century that separated the two events and two men; there was also a massive political chasm.
  • (12) Between fielding calls in another hectic day at the Connaught, Johnson says a change in mentality is needed to bridge the chasm between grand plans hatched in Washington, New York and London and the urgent needs on the ground.
  • (13) The moment when you jump across the ice chasm and slip, and someone catches you – there's a little bit of emotion in his face that says 'I've got your back'."
  • (14) "The chasm in price between a home inside the M25 and one in the country is at last no longer growing but canny buyers are seeing this and far more inquiries I receive are now from people wanting to cash in on the seemingly ludicrous value of their shoebox of a home and snap up a slice of country living."
  • (15) And quotas won't work if they reflect and reinforce the growing chasm between top and bottom earners in the UK today.
  • (16) Wednesday gave the lie to the idea that our young people are thoroughly post-ideological creatures, with no fight in them; if even the most fusty newspapers are worried about the chasm that separates the government from the so-called squeezed middle, you can bet that the politics of class may yet make an unexpected comeback.
  • (17) When it comes to unions, there is a chasm between the elite and popular attitudes.
  • (18) Youth services have worked hard over recent years to establish a rulebook for young offenders, designed to keep them away from the dangerous chasm of the adult justice system.
  • (19) Still, a familiar chasm emerged following a meeting to discuss the new health care amendment on Wednesday afternoon.
  • (20) The gap between players and officials – who expected the kind of deference paid to magistrates while not always paying close attention to the lines – became a chasm that proved the opposite of yawning.

Gulf


Definition:

  • (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.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These mutants have been used to test for the presence of their required metabolites in natural seawater samples from the Gulf of Mexico and adjacent bays.
  • (2) The Saudi-led war in Yemen launched in March – against Houthi rebels who the Saudis insist are backed by Iran – has diverted resources and underlined the priority being given to the Gulf’s unstable and impoverished backyard.
  • (3) Over the last month, the company has released PR materials that highlight the Gulf’s resilience, as well as a report compiling scientific studies that suggest the area is making a rapid recovery.
  • (4) He also loathed war, and later opposed the Falklands, Gulf and Kosovo campaigns.
  • (5) From fundraising to plant management to strategic planning, the confrontations in the Gulf are having an impact on the hospital's bottom line.
  • (6) During the Persian Gulf war, the entire Israeli population was under the threat of chemical missiles.
  • (7) The Arab spring demonstrations led by Bahrain’s Shia majority were crushed by the Sunni-ruled government with help from its Gulf Arab neighbours in February 2011.
  • (8) We are in a hotel in Mobile, Alabama, a small town on the Gulf Coast where he and Danny Glover are filming an action movie called Tokarev , in which Cage plays a reformed mobster reluctantly returning to his violent roots when his daughter is kidnapped.
  • (9) The Saudis and other Gulf states still support rebel fighting formations – as much because of inertia and hostility to Iran as anything else – but western backing is on a downward trajectory as concerns mount about the risks of blowback from al-Qaida-linked groups.
  • (10) The survey ship has been used in the Gulf of Aden monitoring the Somali coastline, as well as scientific missions such as mapping the seabed of the Persian Gulf.
  • (11) Spills in the US are responded to in minutes; in the Niger delta, which suffers more pollution each year than the Gulf of Mexico, it can take companies weeks or more.
  • (12) It’s a massive inconvenience to have to check a laptop, and you can imagine that such a demand is met with resistance by air carriers, who are powerful lobbies.” US airlines have been lobbying the Trump administration to intervene in the Persian Gulf, where they have contended for years that the investments in three rapidly expanding airlines in the area – Etihad Airways, Qatar, and Emirates – constitute unfair government subsidies with which Delta, American and United cannot compete.
  • (13) The announcement came two days after US-led naval exercises started in the Gulf.
  • (14) May was preparing to visit the Gulf Co-operation Council early this week, and Johnson himself is scheduled to make the keynote address at a high-profile security conference in Bahrain this weekend.
  • (15) "Instead of actually fighting a conventional war, western powers and their allies appear to be relying on covert war tactics to try to delay and degrade Iran's nuclear advancement," Theodore Karasik, a security expert at the Dubai-based Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis told Associated Press.
  • (16) Salafist communities operating outside the official mosques have sprung up in three districts, Gornja Maoča, Osve and Dubnica, and “pop-up” radical mosques, often funded from the Gulf, have appeared in Sarajevo, Zenica and Tuzla.
  • (17) The 'Desert Storm Operation' (Persian Gulf, January-February 1991) as it affected the elderly and disabled in Israel is described.
  • (18) A solution in the form of shelters for children was found, and nurses were able to function during the Gulf War with the knowledge that their children were safe and near.
  • (19) The Uefa president told L’Equipe that he does not regret his own vote for Qatar and still thinks the Gulf nation “was the right choice for Fifa and for world football”.
  • (20) Friess said that while producers will benefit most from the pipeline, refineries along the Gulf—which he described as the "most sophisticated refineries in the world"—will profit, too, because they'll be able to outbid other refining markets for Canadian crude.