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leveling
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Leveling is a social process in which the uniqueness of the individual is rendered non-existent by assigning equal value to all aspects of human endeavors, thus missing all the intricacies and subtle complexities of human identity. Leveling is highly associated ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. changing the ground level to a smooth horizontal or gently sloping surface [syn: grading ] complete destruction of a building [syn: razing , tearing down , demolishing ] the act of making equal or uniform [syn: equalization , equalisation ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Level \Lev"el\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Leveled (-[e^]ld) or Levelled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Leveling or Levelling .] To make level; to make horizontal; to bring to the condition of a level line or surface; hence, to make flat or even; as, to level a road, a walk, ...
Usage examples of leveling.
Instead of leveling off or repeating in cycles, the simulated population unexpectedly boomed and crashed erratically from one generation to the next, even though there was nothing random in the model itself.
Tottery, white-haired, half senile, the mage had gone down the line of horseboys and come back twice before stopping in front of Gawaine and leveling a trembly, liver-spotted hand at his nose.
In the corner of his eye he saw James Nichols and Tony Adducci leveling their pistols and firing shots into the small windows alongside the farmhouse.
X-wing came swinging up behind the skips, her nose already leveling off to fire.
The three torpedoes nosed into the sea with small splashes for such a weight of steel, plunging deeply but quickly leveling off at their preset depth.
They also tended to preach a Tolstoian kind of humanism, and dabbled to varying degrees with ideas of social leveling.
In search of a larger life, they found only a greater death, a rancid leveling of just those differentiations that allowed their search in the first place.
World Soul and Eco-Noetic Self is misinterpreted in terms of a flatland holism that, in leveling qualitative distinctions, paralyzes actions that would further the descent of that World Soul.
Then it would drop off again, like a giant multitiered slide of an amusement park, dipping, leveling out, then dipping again.
The outlanders turned to face the spirit, leveling their weapons at him.
He was leveling the barrel when he was shocked to see twin Colts materialize in the hick's hands.
There's some kind of equationnot a mechanical leveling off, but compensatory gains and losses.
More halothane, and he watched the ectopic leveling become bigeminal—two small beeps.
Thus, by simply absolutizing the biosphere, by privileging it in an ontology of regressive leveling, the Eco camp contributes precisely nothing to noospheric integration (and thus everything to biospheric disintegration).
Like them or not, guns were a leveling phenomenon, a democratizing one, in the long run.