Cusp vs Segue - What's the difference?
cusp | segue |
A sharp point or pointed end.
(figuratively) An important moment when a decision is made that will determine future events.
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=April 21
, author=Jonathan Jurejko
, title=Newcastle 3-0 Stoke
, work=BBC Sport
But a sixth successive Premier League win puts them on the cusp of European football next season as they surged 15 points clear of seventh-placed Everton, who have five games left to play.}} (geometry) A point of a curve where the curve is continuous but has no derivative, but such that it has a derivative at every nearby point.
(architecture) A point made by the intersection of two curved lines or curved structures. A common motif in Gothic architecture.Russell Sturgis, ed. (1902). A Dictionary of Architecture and Building: Biographical, Historical, and Descriptive . 3. Macmillan.
(astrology) A boundary between zodiacal signs and houses.
(dentistry) Any of the pointed parts of a canine tooth or molar.
To move smoothly from one state or subject to another.
(music) To make a smooth transition from one theme to another.
(of a disk jockey) To play a sequence of records with no talk between them.
As a noun cusp
is a sharp point or pointed end.As a verb segue is
.cusp
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=Newcastle were 11 points adrift of Spurs following their 5-0 mauling at the hands of the north London club in February.
But a sixth successive Premier League win puts them on the cusp of European football next season as they surged 15 points clear of seventh-placed Everton, who have five games left to play.}}
Derived terms
* cuspate * cusp form * cusp neighborhood, cusp neighbourhood * cuspedAnagrams
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segue
English
Verb
- I can tell she’s going to segue from our conversation about school to the topic of marriage.
- Beethoven’s symphonies effortlessly segue from one theme to the next.
