different between exceed vs overgang

English

Alternative forms

• excede (dated)

Etymology

From Middle English exceden, from Old French exceder, from Latin exced? (“to go beyond”), from ex- (“out, forth”) with ced? (“to go”); see cede and compare accede etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?si?d/
• Rhymes: -i?d
• Hyphenation: ex?ceed

Verb

exceed (third-person singular simple present exceeds, present participle exceeding, simple past and past participle exceeded)

1. (transitive) To be larger, greater than (something).

   The company's 2005 revenue exceeds that of 2004.

2. (transitive) To be better than (something).

   The quality of her essay has exceeded my expectations.

3. (transitive) To go beyond (some limit); to surpass; to be longer than.

   Your password cannot exceed eight characters.

4. (intransitive) To predominate.
5. (intransitive, obsolete) To go too far; to be excessive.
   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.6:

     And to speak impartially, old Men, from whom we should expect the greatest example of Wisdom, do most exceed in this point of folly […].

Synonyms

• (to be larger than something): outbalance, outweigh
• (to be better than something): excel, outperform, surpass; see also Thesaurus:exceed
• (to go beyond some limit): outstep, overstep, surpass; see also Thesaurus:transcend
• (to predominate):
• (to be excessive): cross the line

Antonyms

According to the Oxford Dictionary website:"There is no established opposite to the word exceed, and it is quite often suggested that one is needed. We are gathering evidence of the word deceed 'be less than', but it has not yet reached our dictionaries."

• to fail
• to be inferior
• to fall short
• to subceed

Derived terms

• exceeding
• exceedingly

Related terms

• excess
• excessive
• excessively

Translations

Further reading

• exceed in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “exceed”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• exceed in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• excede, execed

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English overgangen, from Old English ofergangan, from Proto-Germanic *ubergangan?, made up from *uber (“over”) + *gangan? (“to walk, step”), equivalent to over- +? gang (“to walk, step”). Cognate with Scots owergang (“to overwhelm, master, dominate”).

Verb

overgang (third-person singular simple present overgangs, present participle overganging, simple past and past participle overganged)

1. (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To go beyond or above; to exceed.
   • c. 1600, unknown author, "Proud Lady Margaret":

     Ye're straight and tall, handsome withall, But your pride overgangs your wit

   • c. 1650, unknown author, Eger and Grime

     But at the last it will overgang, Suppose that many think it lang.

Derived terms

• overganger

Etymology 2

From Middle English *overgang, from Old English ofergang (“a going across”), equivalent to over- +? gang (“a going”).

Noun

overgang (plural overgangs)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) Something that goes across or over; a transition.
   • 1587, Lord Robert of Orkney, "A renunciation" quoted in Notes on Orkney and Zetland, Alexander Peterkin, page 127:

     [...] all such udall lands, quoy lands, and others, as was evictit frae them be his Lordship's courts of perambulation, and overgangs, holden upon the lands of the same and divers places thereof, mentioned most specially in his Lordship's court-books, he renounced the same accordingly.

   • 1883, George Stephens, Prof: S. Bugge's studies on Northern mythology shortly examined:

     Sometimes we can put our finger direct on the overgang.

   • 1892, Quarter Sessions Records of the Peace (Yorkshire North Riding), volume 9, page 249:

     [...] the preservation of adequate or established footpaths, the creation of new stiles or overgangs, in aid of the same object, in the fences required in the process of inclosure, and so forth.

   • 1990, Dolores Warwick Frese, "Wulf and Eadwacer: The Adulterous Woman Reconsidered" in New Readings on Women in Old English Literature, page 283:

     Its palmbranch logo - "the earliest Christian symbol of triumph over death - and the "still half-Scandian dialect in 12 lines of stave-rime verse" all "announce the overgang from heathendom."

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch overganc. Equivalent to over +? gang. Related to overgaan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o?.v?r.???/
• Hyphenation: over?gang

Noun

overgang m (plural overgangen, diminutive overgangetje n)

1. transition

   Synonym: transitie

2. crossing, place where one crosses
3. menopause

   Synonym: menopauze, climacterium

Derived terms

• overgankelijk
• spoorwegovergang

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From over- +? gang

Noun

overgang m (definite singular overgangen, indefinite plural overganger, definite plural overgangene)

1. a crossing
2. a transition
3. a transfer
4. (transport) an interchange

Derived terms

References

• “overgang” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From over- +? gang. Akin to Old Norse yfirgangr.

Noun

overgang m (definite singular overgangen, indefinite plural overgangar, definite plural overgangane)

1. a crossing
2. a transition
3. (sports) a transfer
4. (transport) an interchange

Derived terms

References

• “overgang” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• overgnag