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Tusk vs Cusp - What's the difference?

tusk | cusp |

As nouns the difference between tusk and cusp

is that tusk is one of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar while cusp is a sharp point or pointed end.

As a verb tusk

is to dig up using a tusk, as boars do.

tusk

English

(wikipedia tusk)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) tusk (also tux, tusch), from (etyl) . More at (l).

Noun

(en noun)
  • One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar.
  • Until the CITES sales ban, elephant tusks were the 'backbone' of the legal ivory trade.
  • A small projection on a (tusk) tenon.
  • A tusk shell.
  • (carpentry) A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets, called teeth .
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To dig up using a tusk, as boars do.
  • (obsolete) To bare or gnash the teeth.
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    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fish, the torsk.
  • (Webster 1913) ----

    cusp

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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 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.}}
  • (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.
  • Derived terms

    * cuspate * cusp form * cusp neighborhood, cusp neighbourhood * cusped

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