Excel vs. Numbers — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Excel and Numbers
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Excel
Be exceptionally good at or proficient in an activity or subject
She excelled at landscape painting
Numbers
A member of the set of positive integers; one of a series of symbols of unique meaning in a fixed order that can be derived by counting.
Excel
To do or be better than; surpass.
Numbers
A member of any of the following sets of mathematical objects
Integers, rational numbers, real numbers, and complex numbers. These sets can be derived from the positive integers through various algebraic and analytic constructions.
Excel
To show superiority; surpass others
Excels at tennis.
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Numbers
Numbers Arithmetic.
Excel
(transitive) To surpass someone or something; to be better or do better than someone or something.
I excelled everyone else with my exam results.
Numbers
A symbol or word used to represent a number.
Excel
(intransitive) To be much better than others.
Numbers
A numeral or a series of numerals used for reference or identification
His telephone number.
The apartment number.
Excel
To exceed, to go beyond
Numbers
A position in an ordered sequence that corresponds to one of the positive integers
The house that is number three from the corner.
Ranked number six in her class.
Excel
To go beyond or surpass in good qualities or laudable deeds; to outdo or outgo, in a good sense.
Excelling others, these were great;Thou, greater still, must these excel.
I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.
Numbers
One item in a group or series considered to be in numerical order
An old number of a magazine.
Excel
To exceed or go beyond; to surpass.
She opened; but to shutExcelled her power; the gates wide open stood.
Numbers
A total; a sum
The number of feet in a mile.
Excel
To surpass others in good qualities, laudable actions, or acquirements; to be distinguished by superiority; as, to excel in mathematics, or classics.
Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel.
Then peers grew proud in horsemanship t' excel.
Numbers
An indefinite quantity of units or individuals
The crowd was small in number. A number of people complained.
Excel
Distinguish oneself;
She excelled in math
Numbers
A large quantity; a multitude
Numbers of people visited the fair.
Numbers
Numerical superiority
The South had leaders, the North numbers.
Numbers
(Grammar) The indication, as by inflection, of the singularity, duality, or plurality of a linguistic form.
Numbers
Metrical feet or lines; verses
"These numbers will I tear, and write in prose" (Shakespeare).
Numbers
(Obsolete) Poetic meter.
Numbers
Numbers(Archaic) Musical periods or measures.
Numbers
Numbers (used with a sing. or pl. verb) Games A numbers game.
Numbers
Numbers (used with a sing. verb) See Table at Bible.
Numbers
One of the separate offerings in a program of music or other entertainment
The band's second number was a march.
Numbers
(Slang) A frequently repeated, characteristic speech, argument, or performance
Suspects doing their usual number—protesting innocence.
Numbers
(Slang) A person or thing singled out for a particular characteristic
A crafty number.
Numbers
To assign a number to or mark with a number
Did you number the pages of the report?.
Numbers
To determine the number or amount of; count
Tickets sold for the show were numbered at 500.
Numbers
To total in number or amount; add up to
The ships in the harbor number around 100.
Numbers
To include in a group or category
He was numbered among the lost.
Numbers
To limit or restrict in number
Our days are numbered.
Numbers
To call off numbers; count
Numbering to ten.
Numbers
To have as a total; amount to a number
The applicants numbered in the thousands.
Numbers
Plural of number
Numbers
Many individuals as a group.
Numbers of people have visited the fair.
Numbers
The fourth book of the Old Testament; contains a record of the number of Israelites who followed Moses out of Egypt
Numbers
An illegal daily lottery
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