Dictionary Definition
level adj
1 having a horizontal surface in which no part is
higher or lower than another; "a flat desk"; "acres of level
farmland"; "a plane surface" [syn: flat, plane]
2 not showing abrupt variations; "spoke in a
level voice"; "she gave him a level look"- Louis Auchincloss [syn:
unwavering]
3 being on a precise horizontal plane; "a
billiard table must be level"
4 oriented at right angles to the plumb; "the
picture is level"
Noun
1 a position on a scale of intensity or amount or
quality; "a moderate degree of intelligence"; "a high level of care
is required"; "it is all a matter of degree" [syn: degree, grade]
2 a relative position or degree of value in a
graded group; "lumber of the highest grade" [syn: grade, tier]
3 a specific identifiable position in a continuum
or series or especially in a process; "a remarkable degree of
frankness"; "at what stage are the social sciences?" [syn: degree, stage, point]
4 height above ground; "the water reached ankle
level"; "the pictures were at the same level"
5 indicator that establishes the horizontal when
a bubble is centered in a tube of liquid [syn: spirit
level]
6 a flat surface at right angles to a plumb line;
"park the car on the level" [syn: horizontal
surface]
7 structure consisting of a room or set of rooms
comprising a single level of a multilevel building; "what level is
the office on?" [syn: floor, storey, story]
8 an abstract place usually conceived as having
depth; "a good actor communicates on several levels"; "a simile has
at least two layers of meaning"; "the mind functions on many strata
simultaneously" [syn: layer, stratum]
Verb
1 aim at; "level criticism or charges at
somebody"
2 tear down so as to make flat with the ground;
"The building was levelled" [syn: raze, rase, dismantle, tear down,
take
down, pull down]
[ant: raise]
5 talk frankly with; lay it on the line; "I have
to level with you"
User Contributed Dictionary
Adjective
- The same height at all places; parallel to the ground.
- This table isn't quite level; see how this marble rolls off it?
- At the same height as some reference; constructed as level
with.
- We tried to hang the pictures so that the bottom of the frames were level with the dark line in the wallpaper.
- (Frequency) Being unvaried.
- His pulse has been level for 12 hours.
- Being sensible.
- He kept a level head under stress.''
Antonyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
the same height at all places
at the same height as some reference
- Danish: i vater med
- German: gleiche höhe wie, gleiches Niveau, Stufe
- Italian: livellato
- Norwegian: vatret
- Portuguese: nivelado
- Swedish: jämnhöjd
being sensible
- Danish: nøgtern, sindig
- Italian: a posto (adv.), equilibrato, calmo
- ttbc Bosnian: ravan
- ttbc Chinese: 平實, 平实
- ttbc Dutch: niveau- (a prefix rather than an adjective)
- ttbc French: niveau m/f''
- ttbc Japanese: 水平な
- ttbc Korean: 수평 (sup'yeong)
- ttbc Serbian:
- ttbc Spanish: llano , llana
Noun
- A tool for finding whether a surface is level, or for creating a horizontal or vertical line of reference.
-
- Hand me the level so I can tell if this is correctly installed.
- A distance relative
to a given reference elevation.
- By the end of the day, we'd dug down to the level of the old basement floor.
- Degree or amount.
- The sound level is much too high; this hurts my ears.
- We've reached a new level of success.
- The sound level is much too high; this hurts my ears.
- In an Internet post, an indication of the number of previous replies at which a portion of text was written.
- In the context of "gaming": One of several discrete segments of a game
generally increasing
in difficulty. Often
numbered. Often, each level occupies different physical space
(although levels are not always vertically stacked).
- It took me weeks to get to level seven.
- Watch out for the next level; the bad guys there are really overpowered.
- It took me weeks to get to level seven.
- In the context of "gaming": A periodic progression of integer values that quantify a
character's experience and power.
- My half-orc barbarian reached fifth level before he was squashed by a troll.
- A floor of a
multi-storey building.
- Take the elevator and get off at the promenade level.
Derived terms
Translations
a tool for finding whether a surface is level
- Danish: vaterpas , nivelleringsinstrument
- Dutch: waterpas
- German: Wasserwaage
- Italian: livella
- Norwegian: vater
- Polish: poziomica
- Portuguese: nível
- Russian: уровень, ватерпас
- Swedish: vattenpass
a distance relative to a given reference
elevation
degree or amount
- Czech: úroveň
- Danish: niveau
- Greek: επίπεδο
- Italian: livello
- Norwegian: nivå
- Polish: poziom
- Portuguese: nível
- Russian: уровень, степень
- Spanish: nivel
- Swedish: nivå
one of several discrete segments of a game
(gaming)
a character's experience and power (gaming)
- Czech: úroveň
- Danish: niveau
- German: Stufe
- Italian: livello
- Swedish: nivå
a floor of a multi-storey building
- Czech: podlaží
- Danish: etage, plan
- Dutch: etage, verdieping
- German: Etage
- Italian: piano, livello
- Swedish: våning
- ttbc Bosnian: libela (1), nivo (2, 3, 4), stepen (2, 3, 4)
- ttbc Chinese: 水平
- ttbc French: niveau
- ttbc Japanese: 水準, レベル
- ttbc Korean: 수준 (sujun)
- ttbc Serbian:
See also
Verb
- To adjust so as to
make as flat or perpendicular to the ground of possible.
- You can level the table by turning the pads that screw into the feet.
- To destroy by
reducing to ground level; to raze.
- The hurricane leveled the forest.
- In the context of "gaming": To progress to the next level.
- I levelled after defeating the dragon.
- To aim or direct (a weapon, a stare, an accusation, etc).
- He levelled an accusation of fraud.
- italbrac US or
obsolete To levy.
- 2007, Mary Jacoby, EU investigators endorse charges against
Intel, Wall Street Journal Europe (17 Jan 07, p. 32, col 5),
- Ultimately, Ms. Kroes [European Union Antitrust Commissioner] could level a fine and order Intel to change its business practices.
- 2007, Mary Jacoby, EU investigators endorse charges against
Intel, Wall Street Journal Europe (17 Jan 07, p. 32, col 5),
Translations
To adjust so as to make level
To destroy by reducing to ground level; to raze
- Danish: planere
- Dutch: egaliseren
- German: ebnen
- Italian: spianare, demolire, radere al suolo
- Russian: сровнять с землёй (srovn'át' s z'eml'ój) /to make level with earth/
To progress to the next level
- German: empor steigen
- Italian: salire di livello, passare (or salire) al livello successivo
- Russian: получить уровень (polučít' úrov'en') /to get a level/
To aim or direct
Derived terms
Extensive Definition
Level may refer to:
- A floor of a building
- A level of a mine, see shaft mining. A level with access to the surface is an adit
- Level (computer and video games), a stage of the game
- In an Internet post, an indication of the number of previous replies at which a portion of text was written (see detail at: Posting style)
- Level up, in role-playing games
- Level (music), similar to but more general and basic than a chord
- LeveL, a games magazine in the Czech Republic, Romania and Turkey
- ILR scale, also known as Foreign Service Levels
- Sound pressure level, a measure related to decibels
- Levelling, a process used in surveying used to measure relative heights
- Levelling or regrading in civil engineering
- Spirit level (also called a bubble level), a tool used in construction and surveying
- Dumpy level, used in surveying
- Laser line level
- Levellers, a group that wished to bring all people to the same social status and wealth
- A level in applied statistics, the different treatments that are applied within a factor; see design of experiments
- Somerset Levels, a wetland area of central Somerset, England
- Level Vodka, a luxury vodka produced by Absolut
- Leveling seat, an assembly seat assigned to a party in a process aiming at achieving a more proportional distribution of seats
- Level (Raconteurs song), the fourth single from The Raconteurs' debut album Broken Boy Soldiers
- "Leveled", a song by Avail from their 2000 album One Wrench
- Morphological leveling, a diachronic process of morphological simplification in linguistics
- Levél, a village in Hungary
- Level, Ohio, a former community in the United States
- Levels of Knowing and Existence, a book on general semantics by Harry L. Weinberg
- Levels of biological organisation
level in German: Level
level in Italian: Livello
level in Latvian: Līmenis
level in Dutch: Level
level in Russian: Уровень
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
IC analysis, accommodate, accordant, address, adjust, aim, akin, alabaster, align, aligned, alike, alkali flat, alluvial
plain, altitude,
amount, appositive, arrowlike, assimilate to, at
full length, at par, attribute, attributive, automatic, balance, balanced, band, basin, beat down, bed, bedding, belt, billiard table, blood, blow down, blow over,
bottomland, bowl
down, bowl over, bowling alley, bowling green, bracket, branch, break down, bring down,
bulldog, bulldoze, burn down, bushveld, caliber, campo, cancel, cast, cast down, caste, category, champaign, champaign country,
chop down, clan, class, clerestory, coastal plain,
commensurate,
compass, compensate, complement, consistent, consonant, constant, construction
modifier, continuous,
coordinate, correspondent, couche, counterbalance, counterpoise, countervail, course, cut, cut down, cutting, dab, damp, dash down, dead flat, dead
level, dead straight, deck,
deep structure, defensible, degree, delta, demolish, desert, deserved, destroy, devastate, direct, direct object, division, down, downs, downy, drag, drawn, dress, drop, dub, due, earth, elevation, entresol, equable, equal, equalize, equalized, equate, equilibrize, equitable, equivalent, esplanade, estate, even, even stephen, even up,
evenhanded, evenly, extent, fair, fair and square, fell, fetch down, fifty-fifty,
filler, first floor,
fit, flat, flat country, flatland, flatly, flats, flatten, flattened, flatways, flatwise, floor, flush, focus, form-function unit,
function, gallery, glabrate, glabrescent, glabrous, glass, good, grade, grass veld, grassland, grease, ground, ground floor, group, grouping, half-and-half,
harmonize, harrow, head, heading, heath, height, hew down, homaloid, homaloidal, homogeneous, homogenize, honest, horizontal, horizontal axis,
horizontal fault, horizontal line, horizontal parallax, horizontal
plane, horizontal projection, horizontally, ice, identical, immediate
constituent analysis, immutable, in a line, incline, indirect object,
integrate, interval, invariable, ivory, just, justifiable, justified, kin, knock down, knock over,
knotted, label, lande, lawful, lay, lay down, lay flat, lay level,
lay low, lay out, lay waste, layer, leap, ledge, legal, leiotrichous, lengthways, lengthwise, level line, level
off, level plane, level with, level-headed, levels, like, lineal, linear, llano, lowland, lowlands, lubricate, lunar mare,
mahogany, make uniform,
marble, mare, mark, mean sea level, measure, measured, measures, mechanical, meet, meet and right, merited, mesa, mesilla, methodic, mezzanine, mezzanine floor,
modifier, monolithic, moor, moorland, mow, mow down, nip and tuck,
normalize, notch, nuance, object, of a piece, oil, on a footing, on a level, on a
par, on even ground, on the level, open, open country, order, ordered, orderly, overlayer, overstory, pampa, pampas, par, parallel, parterre, pas, peg, peneplain, period, persistent, phrase structure,
pigeonhole, pitch, plain, plains, plane, planish, plaster, plateau, platform, playa, point, poise, position, prairie, precipitate, predicament, predicate, prone, proper, proportion, proportionate, prostrate, pull down, qualifier, quits, race, range, rank, ranks, rase, rating, ratio, raze, reach, rectilineal, rectilinear, regular, regularize, regulate, remove, rez-de-chaussee, right, right and proper, rightful, robotlike, roll, roll flat, rolled, round, rubric, ruler-straight, rung, salt flat, salt marsh, salt
pan, same, satin, savanna, scale, scope, sea level, sea of grass,
seam, sebkha, section, send headlong, sept, set, shade, shadow, shallow structure,
shave, shelf, shoot straight, silk, similar, sincere, slide, slot, slot and filler, smash, smooth, smooth down, smooth out,
smooth-shaven, smooth-textured, smoothed out, smoothen, smoothened, space, spread-eagle, square, squashed, squashed flat,
stabilize, stable, stage, stair, stalemated, standard, standardize, standing, station, status, steadfast, steady, steamroll, steamroller, step, steppe, stereotype, stint, story, straight, straight-cut,
straight-front, straight-shooting, straight-side, straightforward,
strain, strata, stratum, streamlined, street floor,
strike a balance, structure, suave, subdivision, subgroup, subject, suborder, substratum, superstratum, supinate, supine, surface structure,
symmetrize, syntactic
analysis, syntactic structure, syntactics, syntax, systematic, table, tableland, tabloid, tabular, tagmeme, take down, tear down,
tennis court, terrace,
thickness, throw, throw down, tied, tier, title, topple, topsoil, train, tread, tree veld, trip, trodden, trodden flat, true, tumble, tundra, turn, unalterable, unbending, unbent, unbowed, unbroken, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, uncurved, undeflected, underlayer, underlying
structure, understory, understratum, undeviating, undifferentiated,
undistorted,
undiversified,
uniform, uniformize, uninterrupted, unrough, unroughened, unruffled, unswerving, unturned, unvaried, unvarying, up on, upland, upright, vega, veld, velvet, vertical, very, warrantable, warranted, water level,
weald, whack down,
wide-open spaces, with,
wold, word arrangement,
word order, wreck,
zero, zone