Flap vs Cusp - What's the difference?
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Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
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A hinged leaf, as of a table or shutter.
An upset, stir, scandal or controversy
The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it.
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(aviation) A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane.
(surgery) A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.
(slang) The female genitals.
To move (something broad and loose) back and forth.
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To move loosely back and forth.
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A sharp point or pointed end.
(figuratively) An important moment when a decision is made that will determine future events.
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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.
As nouns the difference between flap and cusp
is that flap is anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved while cusp is a sharp point or pointed end.As a verb flap
is to move (something broad and loose) back and forth.flap
English
Noun
(en noun)- a cartilaginous flap upon the opening of the larynx
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.}}
Synonyms
* (upset)See also
* ("flap" on Wikipedia) * * lappetVerb
(flapp)- The crow slowly flapped its wings.
- The flag flapped in the breeze.
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Derived terms
* cat flap * flapper * unflappable ----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.}}
