huge gulf
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4.9
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- There is a huge gulf in experience and expectation between us as a minority of developers, and the greater Mac user base.
Examples
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There's a huge gulf between, say, your average Christian, Muslim, or vague deist, and an anti-vax wacko or a global warming denialist.
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We need to address the huge gulf between the rich and the poor in our society.
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We are now one split nation, with a huge gulf dividing the employed from the unemployed.
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There's always been a huge gulf between academics and the profession.
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Eating, or more to the point "not eating" with my Mozambican colleagues, signifies the huge gulf between us in which economics and politics, gender and race, language and culture all figure prominently.
Academic text (1998) -
That's a huge gulf, large enough that the difference in reliability between ORCA and Narwhal could boil down to the number of bodies or brains thrown at the problem.
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While I take issue with the snarky "dumbed down" comment, it is true that there is a huge gulf between mediocre, generic Chinese food and authentic regional cuisine.
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There is a huge gulf between heavy censorship that keeps certain concepts from the populace or the repression of religion, and preventing bigots from using speech to harm others.
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He also refers to the ties of loyalty that linked sections of the French military to the Montagnards and the religious sect leaders of Cochinchina in order to illustrate the huge gulf that lay between French and American perceptions of Indo-China.
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The huge gulf in their opinions made it hard to find common ground.
Synonyms
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1.7
A difference between two groups or amounts
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6.7
A large unfair difference in people's chances or treatment
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2.5
A space between two things that keeps them apart
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4.7
A wide gap between people, groups, or ideas
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2.7
A change that makes something much better or much worse
Antonyms
How Wide
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a large or significant difference' is directly and compositionally derived from 'huge' (very large) modifying 'gulf' (a gap or division). This adjective+noun combination follows a common and predictable metaphorical pattern (gulf = gap) found in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Huge gulf gives a simple image: a gulf is a wide area of sea that separates two lands, and huge shows it is very large. So, it now means a very big 'difference' or 'separation' between people, groups, or ideas.