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, or a garden.
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To bring to a lower level; to overthrow; to topple down; to reduce to a flat surface; to lower.
And their proud structures level with the ground.
--Sandys.He levels mountains and he raises plains.
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To bring to a horizontal position, as a gun; hence, to point in taking aim; to aim; to direct.
Bertram de Gordon, standing on the castle wall, leveled a quarrel out of a crossbow.
--Stow. Figuratively, to bring to a common level or plane, in respect of rank, condition, character, privilege, etc.; as, to level all the ranks and conditions of men.
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To adjust or adapt to a certain level; as, to level remarks to the capacity of children.
For all his mind on honor fixed is, To which he levels all his purposes.
--Spenser.
Wiktionary
alt. (cx UK Canada English) (present participle of level English) n. (alt form leveling English) vb. (cx UK Canada English) (present participle of level English)
WordNet
v. aim at; "level criticism or charges at somebody"
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]
make level or straight; "level the ground" [syn: flush, even out, even]
direct into a position for use; "point a gun"; "He charged his weapon at me" [syn: charge, point]
talk frankly with; lay it on the line; "I have to level with you"
become level or even; "The ground levelled off" [syn: level off]
adj. 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]
not showing abrupt variations; "spoke in a level voice"; "she gave him a level look"- Louis Auchincloss [syn: unwavering]
being on a precise horizontal plane; "a billiard table must be level"
oriented at right angles to the plumb; "the picture is level"
of the score in a contest; "the score is tied" [syn: tied(p), even, level(p)]
n. 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]
a relative position or degree of value in a graded group; "lumber of the highest grade" [syn: grade, tier]
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]
height above ground; "the water reached ankle level"; "the pictures were at the same level"
indicator that establishes the horizontal when a bubble is centered in a tube of liquid [syn: spirit level]
a flat surface at right angles to a plumb line; "park the car on the level" [syn: horizontal surface]
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]
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]
See level
Wikipedia
Levelling (or leveling in US English) is a branch of surveying, the object of which is to
- Find the elevation of a given point with respect to the given or assumed datum.
- Establish a point at a given elevation with respect to the given or assumed datum.
Levelling is the measurement of geodetic height using an optical levelling instrument and a level staff or rod having a numbered scale. Common levelling instruments include the spirit level, the dumpy level, the digital level, and the laser level.
Levelling is the measurement of geodetic height using a levelling instrument and a level staff.
Levelling may also refer to:
- Concrete leveling, a procedure that attempts to correct an uneven concrete surface by altering the foundation that the surface sits upon
- Cultural leveling, the process by which different cultures approach each other as a result of travel and communication
- Dialect levelling, the means by which dialect differences decrease
- Land levelling, the process of flattening land
- Leveling effect (chemistry), a concept in acid-base chemistry
- Leveling (philosophy), an existential process which leads to a loss of individuality
- Morphological leveling, the generalization of an inflection across a paradigm or between words
- Production leveling, a technique for reducing the mura waste
- Resource leveling, a project management process
- Wear leveling, a technique for prolonging the service life of some kinds of erasable computer storage media like Flash memory and Solid-state drives
- Poker Leveling, is knowing what the other opponents think about the hands when playing poker
- Leveling Up, the act of gaining a set number of experience points to increase your rank in a video game.
Usage examples of "levelling".
Whatever be the inequality in the hardness of the materials of which the rock consists, even in the case of pudding-stone, the surface is abraded so evenly as to leave the impression that a rigid rasp has moved over all the undulations of the land, advancing in one and the same direction and levelling all before it.
With a tuck of wings he dove, swooping through the mist, levelling just under its covering in a grey light hanging over a grey country, where huge boulders pushed up through thin soil, and dust blew in little scurries to match the mist.
A groom led the ponies and the two nursemaids formed a chattering rear guard The road Richard chose sloped gently down towards the river, levelling out where the Balmoral bank sloped steeply down to the waterside.
Perhaps it was not only the sight of Tilly standing levelling a gun at him that raised the fury in Bentwood but the fact that she seemed surrounded by all her lackeys, for besides the two flunkeys three outside men were standing by her now.
The entrances to both Pyramids are in their north faces and take the form of cramped passageways sloping downwards at an angle of 26 degrees, before levelling off to join horizontal corridors under the monument.
The line-abreast formation was levelling up, as some ships cut revs and others increased slightly, to get the kinks out.
The first step is to fix certain prominent points, which will serve to connect the map with the field, by actual measurements, and this will very easily be done by the aid of the stakes which are still standing at the intersections of the 50-foot lines, which were used in the preliminary levelling.
The action of adjusting, straightening, levelling or arranging exactly, in typefounding and printing.
The Guards reloaded with grim speed, propping their ramrods against the hedge before levelling the heavy muskets and blasting at the smoke-obscured enemy.
The mountains, once impenetrable barriers that had to be gone about, have been levelled, and in the levelling the watersheds, as we have seen, have been shifted.
These levelling times remain unfair, and commonise, demote, in such a civilised, cultivated countryside, what should be free from vulgar threat.
I was for levelling out, maintaining our position in soft plastics, improving and diversifying only in certain areas.
Rates of sales suddenly become dramatically larger than they were before critical mass was reached, and there may be a period of exponential growth before the inevitable levelling out and subsequent decline.
Every step in political improvement renders it more so, by removing the sources of opposition of interest, and levelling those inequalities of legal privilege between individuals or classes, owing to which there are large portions of mankind whose happiness it is still practicable to disregard.
Orthography, etymology, syntax, and prosody, biography, astronomy, geography, and general cosmography, the sciences of compound proportion, algebra, land-surveying and levelling, vocal music, and drawing from models, were all at the ends of his ten chilled fingers.