(v. t.) To go beyond; to proceed beyond the given or supposed limit or measure of; to outgo; to surpass; -- used both in a good and a bad sense; as, one man exceeds another in bulk, stature, weight, power, skill, etc.; one offender exceeds another in villainy; his rank exceeds yours.
(v. i.) To go too far; to pass the proper bounds or measure.
(v. i.) To be more or greater; to be paramount.
Example Sentences:
(1) By 1978, the reduction in incidence of measles will exceed 90%.
(2) Other haematological parameters remained normal, with the exception of the absolute number of lymphocytes, which initially fell sharply but soon returned to, and even exceeded, control levels.
(3) On the other hand, the patients treated with cimetidine showed a marked, systematic increase in theophylline plasma levels, even exceeding the upper limit of its known therapeutic range in 4 cases.
(4) Dietary intakes, measured by three 24-hour recalls, revealed that protein, iron and Vitamin C generally met or exceeded the Nutrition Recommendations for age.
(5) When commercial chickens are infected in most sensitive one-day age, the virus titre does not exceed the value of 10(12) particles per 1 ml of plasma.
(6) Simple interconversion cannot account for the changes in binding that occur upon adding GMP-PNP or removing magnesium, since the increase in [R2]t exceeds the decrease in [R1]t. Moreover, the apparent amount of high-affinity complex exhibits a biphasic dependence on the concentration of [3H]histamine; an increase at low concentrations is offset by a decrease that occurs at higher concentrations.
(7) Between-lot variation exceeded that of within-lot variation in 10 of the 14 liquid antacids for which this variation could be tested.
(8) Typical kinetics of local anaesthetics are presented for various methods of regional anaesthesia informing the anaesthetist on corresponding plasma concentrations if the recommended maximum doses are exceeded and thus he gets useful information for his daily work.
(9) The total amount of variance explained in the frequency of utilization (47%) exceeded that explained by other studies of utilization of various health services by the elderly.
(10) The difference in APD between the first drive train and drive trains after at least 3 minutes of pacing when APD had stabilized was not significant for an inter-train pause exceeding 8 seconds.
(11) The mean survival period for all of them was not exceeding 12 months.
(12) Hospital noise has repeatedly been demonstrated to exceed levels recommended by the Environmental Protection Agency.
(13) Average number of metaphase Ag-NOR chromosomes (calculated per diploid chromosome set) in haploid parthenogenones exceeded that in the control; in some cases all NORs were stained by silver.
(14) Strand-length effects on crosslinkage and on reassociation caused solution hybridization levels to exceed those predicted by simple theory.
(15) Although consultant hospitals are seen to have the greatest share of births at moderate and high risk, this is not sufficient to account for the whole amount by which perinatal mortality in these hospitals exceeds that in other places of delivery.
(16) This suggests his wealth exceeds the total worth of 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney, who was attacked for his wealth throughout the campaign.
(17) The complex was found to be unstable toward low values of pH and ionic strength, concentrations of urea exceeding 1 M, modifications of the cysteine residues, and fragmention in which the C terminal portions of either H3 or H4 are removed.
(18) Thirty-six per cent of 972 patients developed fever (temperature exceeding 38 degrees C).
(19) Moxalactam serum levels far exceeded the recommended therapeutic range.
(20) Pure sarcomas of the esophagus are exceedingly rare.
Outperform
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Meanwhile Ukip is significantly outperforming its projected figure from most national polls, up 15 points on 23%, far above the 15% projected from national polling.
(2) British boys outperformed girls in science exercises by 20 percentage points – but the gap disappeared when the performances were adjusted for levels of self-confidence.
(3) Channel 4 said that despite "outperforming competitors in recent years" its economic model was being "continuously undermined by increased competition and a structural shift in advertising revenues from TV to online".
(4) Girls have also outperformed boys in terms of grades at A*-C. • In biology, physics and chemistry, girls outperform their male classmates at A* and A grades even though more boys than girls take these subjects.
(5) Sorrell warns ad industry against 'Don Draper-ish' optimism as Brexit vote looms Read more The company confirmed this week it would announce that from 2011 to 2015 WPP had outperformed its peers and the FTSE 100.
(6) For the quarter Europe, which has long been a dark spot for Ford, outperformed with sales rising 11%.
(7) The gilt's performance significantly outperformed others in the market on the day but fell back after the Bank took the "unprecedented step" of announcing it would not be buying it.
(8) He now expects TV ad revenue for the full year to be down 3% but expects the group to still outperform the UK TV ad market as whole.
(9) An analysis by the Guardian shows that most of the chief executives on the "decade of survival" list have steered their companies to outperform the FTSE 100 share index for most of their tenure.
(10) With figures adjusted for inflation , the 1965 release Thunderball is only a hair’s-breadth below Skyfall, while Goldfinger and You Only Live Twice both outperformed the other Craig films (as did the 70s Bonds, The Spy Who Loved Me and Live and Let Die).
(11) At the nine-month follow-up, while there were no statistically significant differences between the groups on any dependent measure, the E-group outperformed the C-group on all dependent measures.
(12) At lower rates of sludge application the swine outperformed those foraging both on control plots and those receiving heavy sludge applications in terms of weight gain, in-utero piglet survival, blood hemoglobin, and tissue Fe concentrations.
(13) Our titles continue to outperform, subscriptions have increased and we retain market share in many sectors.
(14) Discounters continue to grow sales faster than other food retailers, while Waitrose outperformed with a stellar sales growth of +12% in the four weeks to 18 August – helped by shoppers spending more per visit on food and drink – making them this period’s winner across the supermarket sector.
(15) Our democracies haven’t done a very good job in this globalised world.” That said, he doesn’t think the new party of the right, Alternative for Germany, may be the threat it appears (in elections earlier this month, it outperformed Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats ).
(16) In two-way avoidance paradigms, albinos appear to outperform pigmented rats.
(17) They also noted that the bank boss has presided over an increase in business loans and an astonishing bounceback in the Lloyds share price, which outperformed all other members of the FTSE 100 index of leading companies.
(18) At each testing interval, both mnemonic condition groups outperformed the placebo group.
(19) In addition, the younger adults outperformed the elderly in all mode by rate combinations; however, attenuated age differences in recall were observed for the bimodally presented sentences at a slow presentation rate.
(20) He also predicted that the company would outperform the wider supermarket sector over the next 12 months, which he expected to record positive like-for-like sales growth despite the continuing pressure on consumers.