What's the difference between outperform and overcome?

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.

Overcome


Definition:

  • (p. p.) of Overcome
  • (v. t.) To get the better of; to surmount; to conquer; to subdue; as, to overcome enemies in battle.
  • (v. t.) To overflow; to surcharge.
  • (v. t.) To come or pass over; to spreads over.
  • (v. i.) To gain the superiority; to be victorious.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To overcome this difficulty, a "hetero-antibody" RIA was studied.
  • (2) To overcome these problems we developed methotrexate bone cement (MTX-Palacos) with the aim to obtain high local concentrations of methotrexate in order to destroy remaining tumor cells and avoid systemic side effects.
  • (3) This phenomenon may be overcome by utilizing more dextran-coated charcoal in the extraction.
  • (4) The diet dilution technique overcomes the major disadvantage of the graded supplementation method for determining the requirements of amino acids, namely that of the amino acid balance changing systematically in successive dietary treatments.
  • (5) This was overcome by using a continuous subcutaneous infusion pump which also enabled the effective daily dosage to be reduced and thereby adverse reactions to be avoided.
  • (6) If this is the only issue, flight would be fine, but need to make sure that it isn’t symptomatic of a more significant upstream root cause.” Elon Musk (@elonmusk) Btw, 99% likely to be fine (closed loop TVC wd overcome error), but that 1% chance isn't worth rolling the dice.
  • (7) The model is meant to overcome the diffusional limitations, caused by a microcapsulated membrane.
  • (8) To overcome the problem of incontinence which failed to respond to standard measures, an animal model was designed for continent diversion without cystectomy.
  • (9) Results indicate that the rachitogenic factor in rye is not present in the ash portion of the grain, that it can be largely overcome by water extraction and penicillin supplementation, and that an organic solvent extraction has no effect.
  • (10) We interpret this exaggerated positive attitude as an attempt to overcome inner fears, doubts and ambivalences.
  • (11) In contrast, addition of CsA-plus-exogenous-IL-2 within the first 4 hr of culture did not overcome the immunosuppressive effect of CsA.
  • (12) Intraruminal sustained release devices largely overcome this problem and constitute the most important new technology.
  • (13) Many of the limitations of conventional diagnostic arthroscopy of the knee have been largely overcome through the development of techniques that permit manipulation of intra-articular structures through paired, coordinated entry sites.
  • (14) In an attempt to overcome some of these difficulties, the concept of excess mortality was suggested, which is independent of death cause diagnoses or coding routines, as well as of the rate of detection of non-fatal cancer.
  • (15) To overcome some of these problems it is suggested that an investigation of lay evaluation of health care should be carried out within a conceptual framework which incorporates the following elements.
  • (16) Introduction of D 600 of the perfusion medium reduced release of catecholamines in response to acetylcholine, and this reduction was overcome by raising calcium ion concentrations of the perfusion medium.
  • (17) To help overcome this problem, a stereoscopic slide-based auto-instructional program has been developed as a substitute for dissection.
  • (18) Unlike cycloheximide (CXM) which inhibits long-term memory by inhibiting ribosomal protein synthesis, AIB is non-effective when administered 10 min or more after learning, and its effect is overcome by the sodium pump stimulator diphenylhydantoin if the latter is administered 10 min or more after learning.
  • (19) Plasma membranes from activated T cells stimulated HIV production, suggesting cell contact induces factor(s) in monocytes to overcome latency.
  • (20) The results demonstrate the usefulness of polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis to detect and overcome aggregation problems with membrane proteins and suggest that detergent mixtures in specific ratios may be useful in the purification of adenylate cyclase and other intrinsic membrane proteins.

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