Excellence vs. Excel — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Excellence and Excel
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Excellence
Excellence is a talent or quality which is unusually good and so surpasses ordinary standards. It is also used as a standard of performance as measured e.g.
Excel
Be exceptionally good at or proficient in an activity or subject
She excelled at landscape painting
Excellence
The quality of being outstanding or extremely good
A centre of academic excellence
Awards for excellence
Excel
To do or be better than; surpass.
Excellence
The state, quality, or condition of excelling; superiority.
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Excel
To show superiority; surpass others
Excels at tennis.
Excellence
Something in which one excels.
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.
Excellence
Excellence Excellency.
Excel
(intransitive) To be much better than others.
Excellence
The quality of being excellent; brilliance
John Davies was awarded for excellence in the field of computer security.
Excel
To exceed, to go beyond
Excellence
Something in which one excels.
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.
Excellence
An excellent or valuable quality; something at which any someone excels; a virtue.
Excel
To exceed or go beyond; to surpass.
She opened; but to shutExcelled her power; the gates wide open stood.
Excellence
The quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue.
Consider first that greatOr bright infers not excellence.
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.
Excellence
An excellent or valuable quality; that by which any one excels or is eminent; a virtue.
With every excellence refined.
Excel
Distinguish oneself;
She excelled in math
Excellence
A title of honor or respect; - more common in the form excellency.
I do greet your excellenceWith letters of commission from the king.
Excellence
The quality of excelling; possessing good qualities in high degree
Excellence
Something in which something or some one excels;
The use of herbs is one of the excellences of French cuisine
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