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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
excel
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
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▪ And this is exactly the quality which Wordsworth excels in.
▪ Producers such as these do not excel in only the great vintages.
▪ They excelled in and developed the arts of building, of engineering and of town planning.
▪ Among the commodities, which we could prove we excelled in is officeholders and politicians.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Costner has excelled himself in this movie - definitely his best performance yet.
▪ He played cricket for Middlesex but it was football that he really excelled at.
▪ I didn't exactly excel academically and I left school as soon as I had the chance.
▪ Many parents put too much pressure on their children to excel in school.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Alyse was a skilled rider and tried to help me with my technique, but I never excelled.
▪ He frequently rode and hunted, and enjoyed swimming, at which he excelled.
▪ Parallel distributed computing excels in perception, visualization, and simulation.
▪ Schools that excel and attract more students rarely grow or clone themselves.
▪ The kind of tasks it might excel at are assembling keyboards and putting gearboxes or electric motors together.
▪ You want your children to excel in sports?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Excel

Excel \Ex*cel"\, v. i. 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.
--Gen. xlix. 4.

Then peers grew proud in horsemanship t' excel.
--Pope.

Excel

Excel \Ex*cel"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Excelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Excelling.] [L. excellere, excelsum; ex out + a root found in culmen height, top; cf. F. exceller. See Culminate, Column.]

  1. 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.
    --Prior.

    I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.
    --Eccl. ii. 13.

  2. To exceed or go beyond; to surpass.

    She opened; but to shut Excelled her power; the gates wide open stood.
    --Milton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
excel

c.1400, from Latin excellere "to rise, surpass, be superior, be eminent," from ex- "out from" (see ex-) + -cellere "rise high, tower," related to celsus "high, lofty, great," from PIE root *kel- (4) "to rise, be elevated, be prominent; hill" (see hill). Related: Excelled; excelling.

Wiktionary
excel

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To surpass someone or something; to be better or do better than someone or something. 2 (context intransitive English) To be much better than others.

WordNet
excel
  1. v. distinguish oneself; "She excelled in math" [syn: stand out, surpass]

  2. [also: excelling, excelled]

Gazetteer
Excel, AL -- U.S. town in Alabama
Population (2000): 582
Housing Units (2000): 253
Land area (2000): 1.649436 sq. miles (4.272020 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.649436 sq. miles (4.272020 sq. km)
FIPS code: 24880
Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location: 31.427308 N, 87.340587 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Wikipedia
Excel

Excel may refer to:

  • Microsoft Excel, a spreadsheet application by Microsoft Corporation
  • Excel (gum), a brand of chewing gum produced by Wrigley's
  • Excel (band), a crossover thrash-punk band from Venice, California
  • Excel (Excel Saga), the protagonist in the manga and anime series Excel Saga
  • Excel (festival), a national technical festival conducted by Model Engineering College, Kochi, India
  • a 6-row malting barley variety
  • USS Excel, various ships of the U.S. Navy
Excel (gum)

Wrigley's Excel is a line of chewing gum and mints available in Canada since 1991. Eclipse is the American version of Excel.

For many years, Excel used the slogan "Excel-erate your breath", which has recently been replaced by "Eat, drink, chew, Excel". The advertisements are using food creatures since 2010, the same characters that Extra gum is using.

Excel (automobile)

The Excel was a cyclecar manufactured in Detroit, Michigan by the Excel Distributing Company in 1914. The two-seater cyclecar was heavy at , and had a 1.5 L water-cooled four-cylinder engine. It was driven by a friction transmission with belts.

Excel (band)

Excel is a punk/ metal fusion band from Venice, California founded in 1983 by singer Dan Clements and guitarist Adam Siegel. They were influenced by famous 70's punk rock musicians like [the Germs and Black Flag, and heavy metal bands like Black Sabbath, Trouble, Slayer, Corrosion of Conformity and Cryptic Slaughter. They were also influenced by street art, Excel is known for painting graffiti on the streets of the cities where they make their tours, therefore there are many different logos of the band.

Excel came out of the West Side Los Angeles punk scene as did many others California like No Mercy, Beowülf, Suicidal Tendencies and Cryptic Slaughter, and sometimes with other performers on the thrash metal scene like Testament, Overkill and Megadeth.

Excel has recorded three studio albums, three split albums, five demos, three singles and two live albums; the band broke up in 1995 but in 2001 they released new versions of their first two albums: Split Image and The Joke's on You, with some bonus tracks. In August 2009 they edited a special collection of eight DVDs of their tours around Europe and L.A. and published them on their official MySpace. As of January 2012, Excel has reformed.

Usage examples of "excel".

It came to him with the force of a revelation that Cass excelled in everything she did, and that had she not married him all these talents would have died aborning This aroused in him a fierce protectiveness towards her which he had not suspected he possessed.

She wondered if one of the qualifications to an ambassadorship was to be a consummate liar, because he excelled.

While the Uryd disdained use of the bow, they excelled with spear and atlatl, with the toothed-disc and the black-rope, and Synyg had taught his son an impressive efficiency with these weapons as well.

He was also a fairly good left-handed pitcher, and a rattling good batsman, who excelled in fair-foul hitting.

But it is matched by an iron sense of responsibility and a fierce drive to victory which no Bolo could excel.

For all that, Marvell has excelled himself with his verse though I have chid him for some ugly rhyming and the childlike brickbats it does cast against the art of painting.

Jaroslav was ill and were still caught up in the spell of the music, now without the first fiddle and clarinet, whose silence gave the cimbalom player a chance to excel, accompanied only by the second fiddle and bass.

Their very language--a type of the understandings of which it was the creation and the image--in variety, in simplicity, in flexibility, and in copiousness, excels every other language of the western world.

His Supreme Object, the Good: his law, Virtue, which often imposes upon him suffering, thus making him to excel all other created beings known to us.

The American military excelled at infowar, cyberwar, and electronic warfare.

But, cleared her eyes of that ensanguined scud Distorting her true features, to be shown Benignly luminous, one who bears Humanity at breast, and she might learn How surely the excelling generous find Renouncement is possession.

AndI repeated that I was not so maidenminded as formerly but as a gesture in the direction of custom and tradition and honoring the old ways I would accept would reluctantly accept ex abundantia one with red hair and one with hair black as carbon and one with brown soft hair and one blond as corntassel nil consuetudine majus and one with two breasts and one who excelled in the art of falconry and one who was a philosopher and one who was by nature sad in the cast of her mind et cetera et cetera et cetera total of forty-four for Papsmearing that Papsday.

The pathetic entreaties which I poured out of my heart had less effect upon her than upon two young sisters, her companions and friends: had I not concentrated every look of mine upon the heartless girl, I might have discovered that her friends excelled her in beauty and in feeling, but my prejudiced eyes saw no one but Angela.

Compassion and generosity, so great that they comprehended love itself and excelled its highest type, irradiated the whole being of the fat man exposed to the gaze of his inferiors.

He had a dry, savage brand of humour that Jammy had taken to immediately and now excelled in.