MS vs Gulf States

MS and Gulf States both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
MS	Yes	No	No	No
Gulf States	Yes	No	No	No

MS (noun)	Gulf States (noun)
a master's degree in science	a region of the United States comprising states bordering the Gulf of Mexico; Alabama and Florida and Louisiana and Mississippi and Texas
a state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate States during the American Civil War	the countries in southwestern Asia that border the Persian Gulf
a chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers