What's the difference between outring and surpass?
Outring
Definition:
(v. t.) To excel in volume of ringing sound; to ring louder than.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nothing is too odd, too arcane, or too outre (I’ve not researched the tie-in adult sex-toy angle, but I’ll bet there is one) to have the Star Wars logo plastered across it.
(2) In the 1980s, this brand of outre humour – then called alternative comedy – went mainstream.
(3) Take the Go Compare tenor, a cheery bulbous eejit warbling doggerel set to melodies so basic that the average nursery rhyme sounds like one of Sun Ra's more outre soundscapes by comparison.
(4) Still, it was cold comfort at the polls for the local socialists, and people murmured that it was a vote wasted; they had to show the strength of their feelings by tactical voting, and their spirit by attending outre events at the arts centre.
(5) To give as good a guide to the man as anything else, here they are: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Mémoires d’outre Tombe by Francoise-René, Vicomte de Chateaubriand Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville History of England from the Accession of James 11 by Thomas Babbington Macauley Liberty, Equality, Fraternity by James Fitzjames Stephen Paroles d’un Croyant by Abbé Lamennais The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian by Nirad C. Chaudhuri Collected Poems by Rudyard Kipling, and The Federal Story by Alfred Deakin By now we can fairly say, that we can see the direction the report of the royal commission on trade union governance and corruption is likely to head.
(6) Yet after the tour got to New York, with two triumphant nights at Madison Square Garden, Bowie junked the expensive set (in today’s money it would have cost about $1m a night to stage) and the tour resumed as a slick soul revue, Bowie dressed in suits instead of the outre costumes of glam.
(7) As an actor, he juggled outre loss-leaders such as The Orkly Kid with crowd-pleasing breadwinners until the success of Back to the Future enabled him to devote himself to the experimental.
Surpass
Definition:
(v. t.) To go beyond in anything good or bad; to exceed; to excel.
Example Sentences:
(1) They argue that the US, the world's largest producer of greenhouse gases per capita (China recently surpassed us in sheer volume), needs to lead the fight to limit carbon emissions, rather continuing to block global treaties as it has done in the past.
(2) Thereafter, donor type cells expressed an intermediate Thy 1.2 brightness; this population then persisted and surpassed the other subsets.
(3) Funding for Title X declined during the 1980s and is now surpassed by Medicaid as the largest source of family planning dollars.
(4) Results demonstrated that community clients surpassed institutional clients in social and cognitive skills, but not in daily living skills.
(5) Studies show that professionals often fail to reach reliable or valid conclusions and that the accuracy of their judgements does not necessarily surpass that of laypersons, thus raising substantial doubt that psychologists or psychiatrists meet legal standards for expertise.
(6) Liberia, Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Niger have already reached or surpassed the MDG target.
(7) Some 59.29 % had opposed the remuneration report, a rebellion only exceeded by one at Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) at the height of the banking crisis, and surpassing the 59% that voted against the £6.8m pay deal for Sir Martin Sorrell at his advertising company WPP in 2012.
(8) The hyperglycaemic response to nickel of female rats was more marked than that of males, with an increase in intracellular glucose, more marked during pregnancy, which even surpassed the plasma concentration of glucose.
(9) Their hearty laughter far surpassed any private hopes of entertaining this endearingly stodgy bunch.
(10) In hepatitis B patients no coincidence of the results has been observed: the count of theophylline-sensitive E-RFC on conversion to the total E-RFC count surpassed the count of T gamma-cells.
(11) The results surpassed all expectations and the change process has instilled a new sense of pride among nurses at the hospital and sparked the development of training sessions for other nurses in the region.
(12) More than 50% of excessively subnormal motility indexes improved to a level approaching or surpassing normal, making motility the single most significant aspect of the effects of ligation on semen quality.
(13) The men and women between them can now boast four medals at this Games, surpassing their targets (they had hoped for one or two), not to mention the British women's best placing in 84 years in the team final.
(14) It is suggested that though competition with the maternal-nurturant rival may be worked through, often there is incomplete resolution of the surpassing and separation from the protective, loving, but dominant oedipal father, thus limiting true professional autonomy.
(15) Although there are several complications, myocutaneous (MC) island flap surpassed the deltopectoral (DP) flap in the reconstruction of the pharyngo-esophagus, tongue, oral cavity, mandible, and of a massive defect.
(16) What an inspiration: teaching us all to embrace life, look after each other, and have love and compassion no matter what May 14, 2014 Comedian Jason Manford, who championed Stephen's cause and helped him surpass his fundraising goal, released a statement on Wednesday afternoon: Guardian readers have also added their tributes in the comments of the article about his death, with one reflecting on the way Stephen mastered social media in order to raise money for charity and document his story.
(17) When continued success was not forthcoming, and as later-maturing peers caught up to and surpassed his athletic accomplishments, the student sought to protect his sense of self-esteem by rationalizing that his lack of success was due to a physical problem.
(18) Two main arguments have stimulated the development of hydrogel and silicone lenses: flexibility allows folding and thus insertion through a small incision, and inertness promises excellent biocompatibility, possibly surpassing that of PMMA.
(19) This prompted Cameron to warn that the danger posed by Islamic State (Isis) extremists presented the biggest security threat of modern times, surpassing that of al-Qaida.
(20) Against vincristine, the cells showed a greater than 5,000-fold increase in resistance, far surpassing their resistance to the selection drug.