Gully vs. Hollow — What's the Difference?

A gully is a landform created by running water, eroding sharply into soil or other relatively erodable material, typically on a hillside. Gullies resemble large ditches or small valleys, but are metres to tens of metres in depth and width.

Having a cavity, gap, or space within

A ravine formed by the action of water.

Deeply indented or concave; sunken

A fielding position on the off side between point and the slips

Without substance or character

An alley.

Devoid of truth or validity; specious

(of water) make gullies or deep channels in (land)

Having a reverberating, sepulchral sound

A deep ditch or channel cut in the earth by running water after a prolonged downpour.

A cavity, gap, or space

A channel in the side of a mountain, especially one forming a path for avalanches or rockfall.

An indented or concave surface or area.

A large knife.

A void; an emptiness

To wear a deep ditch or channel in.

A small valley between hills or mountains.

To form a deep ditch or channel.

To make hollow

A trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside.

To scoop or form by making concave

A small valley.

To become hollow or empty.

(UK) A drop kerb.

A small valley between mountains.

A road drain.

A sunken area or unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.

(cricket) A fielding position on the off side about 30 degrees behind square, between the slips and point; a fielder in such a position

(figuratively) A feeling of emptiness.

(UK) A grooved iron rail or tram plate.

(US) A sunken area.

A large knife.

(transitive) to make a hole in something; to excavate

(India) an alleyway or side street.

To call or urge by shouting; to hollo.

(obsolete) To flow noisily..

(of something solid) Having an empty space or cavity inside.

(transitive) To wear away into a gully or gullies.

(of a sound) Distant, eerie; echoing, reverberating, as if in a hollow space; dull, muffled; often low-pitched.

A large knife.

(figuratively) Without substance; having no real or significant worth; meaningless.

A channel or hollow worn in the earth by a current of water; a short deep portion of a torrent's bed when dry.

(figuratively) Insincere, devoid of validity; specious.

A grooved iron rail or tram plate.

Concave; gaunt; sunken.

To wear into a gully or into gullies.

(gymnastics) Pertaining to hollow body position

To flow noisily.

(colloquial) Completely, as part of the phrase beat hollow or beat all hollow.

Deep ditch cut by running water (especially after a prolonged downpour)

Alternative form of hollo

Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow sphere.

Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken.

Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound; deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar.

Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as, a hollow heart; a hollow friend.

A cavity, natural or artificial; an unfilled space within anything; a hole, a cavern; an excavation; as the hollow of the hand or of a tree.

A low spot surrounded by elevations; a depressed part of a surface; a concavity; a channel.

To make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to excavate.

To shout; to hollo.

To urge or call by shouting.

Hollo.

A cavity or space in something;

A small valley between mountains;

A depression hollowed out of solid matter

Remove the inner part or the core of;

Remove the interior of;

Not solid; having a space or gap or cavity;

Deliberately deceptive;

As if echoing in a hollow space;

Devoid of significance or point;