Definitions for level

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level lev·el

Spelling: [lev-uh l]

IPA: /ˈlɛv əl/

Level is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in level (eellv).

Definitions for level

noun

1. a device used for determining or adjusting something to a horizontal surface.
2. Surveying. Also called surveyor's level. an instrument for observing levels, having a sighting device, usually telescopic, and capable of being made precisely horizontal. an observation made with this instrument. spirit level.
3. an imaginary line or surface everywhere at right angles to the plumb line.
4. the horizontal line or plane in which anything is situated, with regard to its elevation.
5. a horizontal position or condition.
6. an extent of land approximately horizontal and unbroken by irregularities.
7. a level or flat surface.
8. a position with respect to a given or specified height:
9. a position or plane in a graded scale of values; status; rank:
10. an extent, measure, or degree of intensity, achievement, etc.:
11. Linguistics. a major subdivision of linguistic structure, as phonology, morphology, or syntax, often viewed as hierarchically ordered. Compare component (def 6a), stratum (def 8).
12. Mining. the interconnected horizontal mine workings at a particular elevation or depth:

Idioms

1. find one's (own) level, to attain the place or position merited by one's abilities or achievements:
2. one's level best, one's very best; one's utmost:
3. on the level, Informal. honest; sincere; reliable:

adverb

1. Obsolete. in a level, direct, or even way or line.

adjective

1. having no part higher than another; having a flat or even surface.
2. being in a plane parallel to the plane of the horizon; horizontal.
3. equal, as one thing with another or two or more things with one another.
4. even, equable, or uniform.
5. filled to a height even with the rim of a container:
6. mentally well-balanced; sensible; rational:

Verb phrases

1. level off, Aeronautics. to maintain a constant altitude after a climb or descent. to become stable; reach a constant or limit. to make even or smooth.

verb (used with object)

1. to make (a surface) level, even, or flat:
2. to raise or lower to a particular level or position; to make horizontal.
3. to bring (something) to the level of the ground:
4. Informal. to knock down (a person):
5. to make equal, as in status or condition.
6. to make even or uniform, as coloring.
7. Historical Linguistics. (of the alternative forms of a paradigm) to reduce in number or regularize: .
8. to aim or point (a weapon, criticism, etc.) at a mark or objective:
9. Surveying. to find the relative elevation of different points in (land), as with a level.

verb (used without object)

1. to bring things or persons to a common level.
2. to aim a weapon, criticism, etc., at a mark or objective.
3. Surveying. to take a level. to use a leveling instrument.
4. to speak truthfully and openly (often followed by with):
5. Obsolete. to direct the mind, purpose, etc., at something.

Origin of level

1300-50; Middle English (noun and v.), variant of livel (noun) Middle French Vulgar Latin *lībellum, for Latin lībella plummet line, level, diminutive of lībra balance, scales; for formation,

Examples for level

There is, in fact, a distinction in the level of protection.

I think now it was because it seemed to bring you down nearer to my level.

Occasionally, a level will take 20 or more strokes to complete.

I'd level straightway with the dust, and with it sink our shame.

They understand it, up to the level of their own stature; they know who loves them, but not who loves virtue.

We can turn rivers in their courses, level mountains to the plains.

Twelve hours afterward the snow, three feet deep on a level, has melted.

“The level of outside support… has not been sufficient enough for them to distance themselves from al Nusra,” Cafarella said.

It was a personal thing she was working towards, and I felt very invested as well seeing her level of commitment.

Nowhere to be found is the anguish, the drama, the pain of an athlete on that level who considering walking away.