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Outrun vs Outweigh - What's the difference?

outrun | outweigh |

As verbs the difference between outrun and outweigh

is that outrun is to run faster than the others while outweigh is to exceed in weight or mass.

As a noun outrun

is the sheepdog's initial run towards the sheep, done in a curving motion so as not to startle them.

outrun

English

Verb

  • To run faster than the others.
  • To exceed or overextend.
  • * 1813 , Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice , Modern Library Edition (1995), page 164
  • They will take care not to outrun their income. They will never be distressed for money.
  • * 1851 ,
  • [...] as I levelled my glance towards the taffrail, foreboding shivers ran over me. Reality outran apprehension; Captain Ahab stood upon his quarter-deck.

    References

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (sheepdog trials) The sheepdog's initial run towards the sheep, done in a curving motion so as not to startle them.
  • outweigh

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To exceed in weight or mass.
  • To exceed in importance or value.
  • *
  • The advantage was so great that it would have taken a lot of failures to outweigh it.