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–noun 

1. a point or pointed end. 

2. Anatomy, Zoology, Botany. a point, projection, or elevation, as on the crown of a tooth. 

3. Also called spinode. (靜止點) Geometry. a point where two branches of a curve meet, end, and are tangent. 

4. Architecture. a decorative device, used esp. in Gothic architecture to vary the outlines of intradoses (內弧面) or to form architectural foils (箔,金屬薄片), consisting of a pair of curves tangent to the real or imaginary line defining the area decorated and meeting at a point within the area. 

5. Astronomy. a point of a crescent (弦月), esp. of the moon. 

6. Astrology. 

a. the zodiacal degree that marks the beginning of a house or a sign. 

b. Informal. a person born on the first day of a sign.   



7. a point that marks the beginning of a change: on the cusp of a [new] era.  



—Related forms

cuspal, adjective 





　

Michael Pitt is an actor on the cusp of [great] things. 



From the sugar coated world of Dawson’s Creek to the dark underbelly of hard-knock school life in Bully, Pitt may be pretty but he’s certainly not let that [restrict] him to rom-coms and blockbusters. 



His next [project] sees him as 



one half of the murderous duo in the English language version of Funny Games, Michael Haneke’s shot-for-shot remake of his 1997 Austrian thriller. It is scary stuff kids, but thankfully Michael Pitt isn’t and we popped by for a little chat with him... 





catalyst

[His imprisonment] by the government served as

the catalyst that helped transform [social unrest] into [revolution]. 

alchemy elixir 

tonic

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cusp foil

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