level
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *leyH-der.
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰromder.
Proto-Italic *līðrā?
Latin lībra
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -la
Latin libella
Old French nivel
Old French livelbor.
Middle English level
English level
From Middle English level, from Old French livel, liveau m, later nivel, niveau, from Latin libella f (“a balance, a level”), diminutive of libra f (“a balance, a level”); see libra, librate. Doublet of libella and niveau.
The verb is from Middle English levelen, from the noun.
Inflected forms:
form: leveler
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: leveller
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: levelest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: levellest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: levels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: levels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: leveling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: levelling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: leveled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: leveled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: levelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: levelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.
pos: adj
examples: This table isn't quite level; see how this marble rolls off it?
the smooth and level pavement
gloss: At the same height as some reference; constructed as level with.
pos: adj
examples: We tried to hang the pictures so that the bottom of the frames were level with the dark line in the wallpaper.
Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.
gloss: Unvaried in frequency.
pos: adj
examples: His pulse has been level for 12 hours.
gloss: Unvaried in volume.
pos: adj
examples: His voice has been unchanged. It has been level for 12 hours.
gloss: Calm.
pos: adj
examples: He kept a level head under stress.
He kept a level gaze.
gloss: In the same position or rank.
pos: adj
examples: Young boys and girls
 Are level now with men.
After a poor start to the season, Roy Hodgson's men are now unbeaten in four matches and 10th in the Premier League table, level with Aston Villa on 11 points.
gloss: Straightforward; direct; clear.
pos: adj
examples: a very plain and level account
gloss: Well balanced; even; just; steady; impartial.
pos: adj
examples: a level head; a level understanding
a level consideration
gloss: Of even tone; without rising or falling inflection; monotonic.
pos: adj
examples: Intonation or tone is either level, rising, or falling, marked respectively
gloss: Perpendicular to a gravitational force.
pos: adj
examples: The earth's oceans remain level in relation to the pull of gravity.
gloss: A tool for finding whether a surface is level, or for creating a horizontal or vertical line of reference.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Hand me the level so I can tell if this is correctly installed.
gloss: A distance relative to a given reference elevation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: By the end of the day, we'd dug down to the level of the old basement floor.
gloss: Degree or amount.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer.
In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra–wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.
The sound level is much too high; this hurts my ears.
We've reached a new level of success.
gloss: Achievement or qualification.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She achieved a high level of distinction.
gloss: Distance from the root node of a tree structure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: One of several discrete segments of a game, generally increasing in difficulty and representing different locations in the game world.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Many of the levels change over time, from day to night or from one location to another, and some undergo a total transformation.
It took me weeks to get to level seven. Watch out for the next level; the bad guys there are really overpowered.
gloss: A numeric value given to a character (or other element of a game) that represents its relative power, challenge or eligibility to do things, used as a game mechanic to govern progression through a game.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: My half-orc barbarian reached fifth level before he was squashed by a troll.
gloss: A floor of a multi-storey building.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Take the elevator and get off at the promenade level.
gloss: An area of almost perfectly flat land.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
examples: The troops grow mutinous—the revenue fails—
There’s something rotten in us—for the level
Of the State slopes, its very bases topple,
The boldest turn their backs upon themselves!
gloss: A school grade or year.
pos: noun
tags: Singapore
countable
uncountable
gloss: One of the specific values which may be taken by a categorical variable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The most common level of the colour variable is red. The other levels are blue and green.
gloss: To adjust so as to make as flat or perpendicular to the ground as possible.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: You can level the table by turning the pads that screw into the feet.
This pitfall, beginning in February and finishing in May, resulted in a drop of about 3 ft. in the platform level; during this period it was necessary to level the track three times weekly, and impose a service slack of 15 m.p.h. The subsidence appears now to have finished, and normal speed is once again permitted.
The work involved a complete rewiring of the system, while the addition of four higher-capacity Mechan jacks and the increased length of the new train meant the entire floor (the length of four train carriages) had to be dug up, levelled and strengthened to meet tolerance requirements.
gloss: To destroy by reducing to ground level; to raze.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The hurricane leveled the forest.
He levels mountains and he raises plains.
gloss: To progress to the next level.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I levelled after defeating the dragon.
gloss: To aim or direct (a weapon, a stare, an accusation, etc).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He levelled an accusation of fraud at the directors.  The hunter levels the gun before taking a shot.
Bertram de Gordon, standing on the castle wall, levelled a quarrel out of a crossbow.
But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window […], and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.
gloss: To direct or impose (a penalty, fine, etc) at or upon (someone) [with on or against or at].
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: If the right of killing salmon belong exclusively to the King, and consequently to his donatories, why has not the Legislature secured the right by levelling penalties against such as should encroach upon it … ?
How can the Minister reconcile the first statement with the clause, when he is in fact levelling punishment at the woman and not at the errant father … ?
There is no purpose in levelling fines because they would be merely paid from the £1.8 billion which the BBC collects.
Ultimately, Ms. Kroes [European Union Antitrust Commissioner] could level a fine and order Intel to change its business practices.
gloss: To make the score of a game equal.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Holt was furious referee Michael Oliver refused to then award him a penalty after Ledley King appeared to pull his shirt and his anger was compounded when Spurs immediately levelled.
gloss: To bring to a common level or plane, in respect of rank, condition, character, privilege, etc.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: to level all the ranks and conditions of men
gloss: To adjust or adapt to a certain level.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to level remarks to the capacity of children
For all his mind on honour fixed is, / To which he levels all his purposes.
gloss: To speak honestly and openly [with with ‘someone’] (see: level with).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Sean, I'll level with you. This could get ugly. Do you have a gun?
gloss: To replace (an irregular form) with a more common form; to remove irregularities or complexities, such as within a paradigm; to regularize.
pos: verb
Antonyms: tilted
unbalanced
uneven
Derived words: bi-level
bilevel
block-level
county-level municipality
deep-level
delevel
downlevel
draw level
eigenlevel
forelevel
garden level
high-level
interlevel
intermediate-level
intralevel
levelable
levelage
level best
level-handed
level-headed
levelise
levelish
levelism
levelize
Levelland
levelless
levelly
levelman
levelness
level pegging
level playing field
level spoon
level term assurance
level test
level to the ground
levelwise
low-level
macrolevel
medium-level
mesolevel
metalevel
microlevel
mislevel
multilevel
multilevels
nanolevel
nonlevel
on level terms
prefecture-level city
province-level city
province-level municipality
relevel
runlevel
state-level city
state-level municipality
sublevel
subsistence level
superlevel
top-level
trilevel
underlevel
unlevel
uplevel
mid-level
Abney level
Advanced level
air level
A-level
A level
alpha level
angle level
AS-level
beat level
blind level
block level element
box level
brow level
brow-level
bubble level
C-level
confidence level
contact leve
core-level
county-level city
critical tide level
day level
difficulty level
division level
dumpy level
ear level
energy level
entry-level
extinction level event
eye level
Fermi level
first-level carrier
flight level
generic top-level domain
geostrophic wind level
groundwater level
grunt-level
Landau level
level cap
level crossing
level head
level junction
level set
level staff
level tone
level-triggered
logic level
macro-level orientation
max-level
mean sea level
mean sea level pressure
metric level
micro-level orientation
multi-level
multiple level
next-level
next level
O-level
on the level
Ordinary level
power level
prefecture-level municipality
price level
sea level
second-level carrier
second-level domain
service level
service level agreement
seven-level
seven-level screwdriver
significance level
skip-level
S level
snow level
split-level
street level
support level
surface-level
take it to the next level
take to the next level
tertiary-level education
third-level carrier
T level
top-level domain
to the next level
transition level
tri-level
trophic level
Troughton level
two-level
V-level
water finds its level
water finds its own level
water level
water seeks its level
water seeks its own level
wye level
Y level
level down
leveled
leveling
level off
level out
level up
level with
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: еднакъв
roman: ednakǎv
lang: Bulgarian
word: равномерен
roman: ravnomeren
lang: Catalan
word: uniforme
lang: Chinese
word: 平
roman: zh-min-nan
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 平
roman: píng
lang: Czech
word: vyrovnaný
lang: Danish
word: jævn
lang: Danish
word: ensformig
lang: Dutch
word: constant
lang: Finnish
word: tasainen
lang: Finnish
word: vakaa
lang: French
word: constant
lang: German
word: konstant
lang: Greek
word: επίπεδος
roman: epípedos
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ὁμαλός
roman: homalós
lang: Irish
word: cothrom
lang: Italian
word: costante
lang: Italian
word: uniforme
lang: Portuguese
word: constante
lang: Spanish
word: nivel
lang: Spanish
word: niveles
lang: Swedish
word: jämn
lang: Swedish
word: plan
lang: Telugu
word: భేధము లేక
roman: bhēdhamu lēka
lang: Tibetan
word: སྙོམས་པ
roman: snyoms pa