What's the difference between gulf and gulp?

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.

Gulp


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down at one swallow.
  • (n.) The act of taking a large mouthful; a swallow, or as much as is awallowed at once.
  • (n.) A disgorging.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Chew on this during the change: TBS notes that the Pirates are 69-17 when they score four or more runs....gulp.
  • (2) Two minutes later he made only the occasional gulp for air.
  • (3) In between, some witnesses said they saw him gulp and gasp more than 600 times.
  • (4) The proper name of this panel is "How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love Plastic Water Bottles, Fracking, Genetically Modified Food, & Big Gulp Sodas."
  • (5) Another witness, reporter Troy Hayden, told the same paper that it had been "very disturbing to watch ... like a fish on shore gulping for air."
  • (6) When Adele starred in a rainy London “home for the holidays” edition, she downed a cuppa in one gulp, discussed #squadgoals, rapped Nicki Minaj’s Monster and paid homage to the Spice Girls by busting out Wannabe.
  • (7) You could almost hear a gulp go around a packed Aviva Stadium before kick-off as home fans considered the lineups.
  • (8) Hague recalls the anecdote between little gulps of laughter.
  • (9) I opened one book, and realised with a horrible gulp that I was looking at advice for cooking crow.
  • (10) Signs of the condition in newborns include gulping and clicking while breastfeeding because they cannot latch on properly.
  • (11) On Manhattan's tonier Upper West Side, where only one in eight residents is obese, just 14% of residents were gulping sodas daily.
  • (12) His team has seen humpbacks “lunge feeding”, where the whales rise up under giant shoals and take hundreds of thousands of pounds of fish into their mouths in one gulp, filtering out the seawater through their baleen grills and swallowing the fish.
  • (13) As the town parties, Iriondo and Aranzábal are dressed in Basque peasant outfits, celebrating the patron saint of San Roque with midday gulps of rioja, slabs of battered cod and thin slices of ham.
  • (14) But she has bitten off more than she can chew and I don't mean by gulping down a testicle.
  • (15) Outraged listeners reached for their blogs and Twitter accounts while the interviewer John Kampfner (whose Radio 4 programme, What Syria Means for Britain, on 9 September at 8pm, includes the interview) audibly gulped.
  • (16) One spotty lad sold fanzines in the foyer and his spotty girlfriend sold button-badges outside the toilets, but apart from that there was nothing to do apart from watch the bands and drink the watered-down beer, or nip out into the side-streets for a gulp of fresh air and a glimpse of daylight.
  • (17) she hoots at her gulping husband, woggle quivering with horror.
  • (18) I gulped and debated whether to disturb the perfect moment but really, I was just looking for an excuse not to confront the reality of the situation.
  • (19) It was a simple gulp of water, but one that Japan's government hopes will carry symbolic importance as it seeks to ease concern over decontamination efforts at the scene of the country's nuclear crisis.
  • (20) "Yer all orphans and bastards," snarls dastardly foreman Charlie Crout (Craig Parkinson) as oppressed urchins gulp and clench their bumcheeks.