Direct Cross-Language Association: “Excel” in German
This word also exists in German! Meaning: “(software) Excel (Microsoft program)”
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Direct German Translations & Equivalents:
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Verb Conjugation Tables & Inflections
Definitions & Usage
(transitive) To surpass someone or something; to be better or do better than someone or something.
(intransitive) To be much better than others.
(transitive, archaic, rare) To exceed, to go beyond.
Notable Literary & Historical Quotes
“Compositions which follow the style of Nissi Belzer's creations in structure but which excel them in length.”
— 1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 434:
“La Rochefoucauld, the French philosopher, said: "If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you." Why is that true? Because when our friends excel us, that gives them a feeling of importance; but when we excel them, that gives them a feeling of inferiority and arouses envy and jealousy.”
— 1936, Dale Carnegie, “Part 3, Chapter 6: THE SAFETY VALVE IN HANDLING COMPLAINTS”, in How to Win Friends and Influence People:
“But it is as a destroyer of grasshoppers that the dickcissel excels.”
— 1901, Sylvester D. Judd, The Relation of Sparrows to Agriculture, page 91: