Passing means getting ahead of another in a competition.
Exceed is a verb that refers to the action of exceeding or transcending a limit . The concept is also used to name what happens when, in a race or during the development of a certain event, one participant surpasses another, getting ahead.
For example: “The attackers managed to overtake the wall with their stones, breaking the roof of the club” , “The Australian rider tried to overtake the Italian for five laps, but was unsuccessful and was finally forced to abandon due to a fault in the engine” , “If you continue like this, you will manage to surpass my patience” .
Different uses of the term overtake
The idea of passing can be used concretely but also in an abstract sense. Suppose that, in a motorcycle race , two participants are fighting for first place . On the main straight, the motorcyclist who came second manages to overtake the one who was leading the competition : that is, he surpasses him. In this case, passing refers to a change in the order or positions of the race.
During the so-called Cold War , the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) competed against each other to demonstrate which nation had more power in terms of weapons. In this case, each country sought to surpass the other symbolically, trying to position itself as the one with the greatest power. There was, therefore, no real armed confrontation.
Exceeding can also refer to exceeding a quantity or mark . If in a literature contest in which about thirty writers used to participate, more than a hundred register, the registration record will have been surpassed.
In motorsports, passing your rivals is key to winning the race.
Common confusions
The term rebasar, like many others in our language , is the protagonist of several confusions at the orthographic level. In this case, it is often confused with overflowing and overflowing . First of all, let's look at the definitions of each of these last two:
- Overflowing : according to the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy ( RAE ), the meaning that we should take as correct is that which speaks of "stopping the flow of a liquid, such as water , so that a pool is formed." In other dictionaries we can find definitions that speak of the overflow of said liquid above the walls of the pond.
- Overflow : as well as the second meaning of overflow, this verb serves to describe the spilling of a liquid over the container that contains it. As a transitive verb, it allows you to put the container as a subject to say that it "overflows" , indicating the same situation as in the first case.
The word overflow has more meanings, but those mentioned in the previous paragraph are the ones that are of interest within the framework of this definition. A clear example of confusion regarding the meaning of the word rebalsar occurs in Argentina , where its use as a synonym for rebasar is permitted; Only one letter differentiates them at an orthographic level, but the same does not happen from a semantic point of view, as can be seen throughout this article.
Regionalisms like this are very harmful to communication, since they cause various problems that end up accentuating geographical divisions even more: on the one hand, they make one group bear the responsibility of misusing the language; On the other hand, they make it difficult for them to understand each other and other speakers of the same language, generating truly unnecessary and absurd interference at a time when we can all access texts from anywhere in the world without leaving our homes.
Among the spelling confusions related to the word rebasar is the exchange of the "b" for the "v", one of the most common errors , especially because both letters are pronounced the same way in our language.