Terminology record for gulf
RECORD
| Record No.: | 113/en/207 |
| Author: | ELAD D. F. |
| Creation date: | |
| Last updated: | 2022-12-17 00:00:00 |
| 🇫🇷 FRENCH | ||||||||||
| DOMAINE |
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| VEDETTE | * Golfe statut : recommandé
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| PARTIE DU DISCOURS | nom masculin | |||||||||
| ÉTYMOLOGIE | Golfe | |||||||||
| SOURCE DE L'ETYMOLOGIE |
Grand Robert de la langue française, en 6 volumes version 2.0 (2005). Antidote bilingual 10 v2.1 (2019). | |||||||||
| DÉFINITION |
Vaste bassin* en cul-de-sac plus ou moins largement ouvert, formé par la mer dans son avancée à l’intérieur des terres. | |||||||||
| PLURIEL | Golfes ; | |||||||||
| SOURCE DE DÉFINITION | Fishterm | |||||||||
| USAGE | Ordonnance n° 62-0F-30 du 31 mars 1962 portant Code de la Pêche Maritime Marchande au Cameroun, article 5, alinéa 2 : « Pour les golfes, baies et rades, des décrets fixent la ligne à partir de laquelle cette limite est comptée. » | |||||||||
| 🇬🇧 ENGLISH | ||||||||||
| SUBJECT FIELD |
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| TERM | * Gulf status: recommended
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| PART OF SPEECH | noun | |||||||||
| PLURAL | Gulfs ; | |||||||||
| ETYMOLOGY | Late Middle English: from Old French golfe, from Italian golfo, based on Greek kolpos ‘bosom, gulf’. | |||||||||
| ETYMOLOGY SOURCE |
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (8th ed.) (2010). Antidote bilingual 10 v2.1 (2019). | |||||||||
| DEFINITION |
a large area of sea or ocean that is partly surrounded by land - Part of an ocean or see extending into land. A gulf is said to be a large body of water that is surrounded by land and having only a narrow entrance along a strait. | |||||||||
| DEFINITION SOURCE |
Mirriam Webster's Dictionary Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (8th ed.) (2010). Antidote bilingual 10 v2.1 (2019). | |||||||||
| Notes |
Not to be confused with peninsular
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