LEVEL
Definition of LEVEL
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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."
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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."
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Degree or amount.
"The sound level is much too high; this hurts my ears. We've reached a new level of success."
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To adjust so as to make as flat or perpendicular to the ground as possible.
"You can level the table by turning the pads that screw into the feet."
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To destroy by reducing to ground level; to raze.
"The hurricane leveled the forest."
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To progress to the next level.
"I levelled after defeating the dragon."
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The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.
"This table isn't quite level; see how this marble rolls off it?"
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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."
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Unvaried in frequency.
"His pulse has been level for 12 hours."
Source: Wiktionary