Crux vs Crup - What's the difference?
crux | crup |
The basic, central, or essential point or feature.
The critical or transitional moment or issue, a turning point.
* 1993 , Laurence M. Porter, "Real Dreams, Literary Dreams, and the Fantastic in Literature", pages 32-47 in'' Carol Schreier Rupprecht (ed.) ''The Dream and the Text: Essays on Literature and Language .
A puzzle or difficulty.
The hardest point of a climb.
* 1973 , Pat Armstrong, "Klondike Fever: Seventy Years Too Late", in Backpacker , Autumn 1973, page 84:
* 2004 , Craig Luebben, Rock Climbing: Mastering Basic Skills , The Mountaineers Books, ISBN 9780898867435,
* 2009 , R. J. Secor, The High Sierra: Peaks, Passes, and Trails , Third Edition, The Mountaineers Books, ISBN 9780898869712,
(heraldiccharge) A cross on a coat of arms.
As a proper noun crux
is (constellation) a distinctive winter constellation of the southern sky, shaped like a cross it appears in the flags of several countries in oceania.As a noun crup is
(the rump of a horse).As an adjective crup is
short; brittle.crux
English
Noun
(en-noun)- The crux of her argument was that the roadways needed repair before anything else could be accomplished.
- The mad certitude of the ogre, Abel Tiffauges, that he stands at the crux of history and that he will be able to raise Prussia "to a higher power" (p. 180), contrasts sharply with the anxiety and doubt attendant upon most modern literary dreams.
- The perpetual crux of New Testament chronologists. — Strauss.
- The final half-mile was the crux of the climb.
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- Most pitches have a distinct crux', or tough spot; some have multiple '''cruxes'''. ¶ Climb efficiently on the "cruiser" sections to stay fresh for the ' cruxes .
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- Continue climbing the groove; the crux is passing some vegetation on the second pitch.
