Excel vs. Tableau — What's the Difference?

Be exceptionally good at or proficient in an activity or subject

A vivid or graphic description

To do or be better than; surpass.

A striking incidental scene, as of a picturesque group of people

To show superiority; surpass others

An interlude during a scene when all the performers on stage freeze in position and then resume action as before.

(transitive) To surpass someone or something; to be better or do better than someone or something.

A tableau vivant.

(intransitive) To be much better than others.

A striking and vivid representation; a picture.

To exceed, to go beyond

A vivid graphic scene of a group of people arranged as in a painting or bas relief sculpture.

To go beyond or surpass in good qualities or laudable deeds; to outdo or outgo, in a good sense.

Hence, an arrangement of actors in static positions on stage, having the effect of pointing up a particular moment in the drama, conventionally revealed by opening tableau curtains (known as "tabs").

To exceed or go beyond; to surpass.

(mathematics) A two-dimensional array or table of data, usually numbers, of various specific kinds.

To surpass others in good qualities, laudable actions, or acquirements; to be distinguished by superiority; as, to excel in mathematics, or classics.

A table that shows constraint violations of a list of candidates given an input and a constraint ranking.

Distinguish oneself;

(card games) Mostly in solitaire card games, but also in other card and board games, the main area, where random cards can be arranged.

(logic) A semantic tableau.

(theater) unit of a play, an opera or a ballet with change of stage setting.

A striking and vivid representation; a picture.

A representation of some scene by means of persons grouped in the proper manner, placed in appropriate postures, and remaining silent and motionless.

The arrangement, or layout, of cards.

A group of people attractively arranged (as if in a painting)

Any dramatic scene