Accelerate vs Excel - What's the difference?
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(label) To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
(label) To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.
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(label) To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.
To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.
(label) To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.
(label) Grow; increase.
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(rare) Accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried.
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To surpass someone or something; to be better or do better than someone or something.
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To be much better than others.
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(rare) To exceed, to go beyond
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In transitive terms the difference between accelerate and excel
is that accelerate is to hasten, as the occurrence of an event while excel is to surpass someone or something; to be better or do better than someone or something.In intransitive terms the difference between accelerate and excel
is that accelerate is grow; increase while excel is to be much better than others.In lang=en terms the difference between accelerate and excel
is that accelerate is accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried while excel is to exceed, to go beyond.As an adjective accelerate
is accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried.As a proper noun Excel is
a spreadsheet application software program written and distributed by Microsoft.accelerate
English
Verb
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Synonyms
* advance * dispatch * expedite * forward * further * hasten * quicken * speed upAntonyms
* decelerate * retardDerived terms
* accelerative * accelerator * accelerated motion * accelerating forceAdjective
- ... a general knowledg of the definition of motion, and of the distinction of natural and violent, even and accelerate , and the like, sufficing.
excel
English
Verb
(excell)- 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.
- I excelled everyone else with my exam results.
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- If, then, there is something in what the poets say, and jealousy is natural to the divine power, it would probably occur in this case above all, and all who excelled in this knowledge would be unfortunate.
- She opened; but to shut / Excelled her power: the gates wide open stood
- I reason, we could die : / The best vitality / Cannot excel decay; / But what of that?