Word Finder - levels

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A tool for finding whether a surface is level, or for creating a horizontal or vertical line of reference.

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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.

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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.

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The sound level is much too high; this hurts my ears.   We've reached a new level of success.

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Achievement or qualification.

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She achieved a high level of distinction.

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Distance from the root node of a tree structure.

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One of several discrete segments of a game, generally increasing in difficulty and representing different locations in the game world.

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It took me weeks to get to level seven.   Watch out for the next level; the bad guys there are really overpowered.

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• stage
• world
• zone

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A numeric value that quantifies a character's experience and power.

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My half-orc barbarian reached fifth level before he was squashed by a troll.

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A floor of a multi-storey building.

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Take the elevator and get off at the promenade level.

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An area of almost perfectly flat land.

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A school grade or year.

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To adjust so as to make as flat or perpendicular to the ground as possible.

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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.

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The hurricane leveled the forest.

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To progress to the next level.

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I levelled after defeating the dragon.

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To aim or direct (a weapon, a stare, an accusation, etc).

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He levelled an accusation of fraud at the directors.  The hunter levels the gun before taking a shot.

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To direct or impose (a penalty, fine, etc) at or upon (someone).

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To make the score of a game equal.

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To bring to a common level or plane, in respect of rank, condition, character, privilege, etc.

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to level all the ranks and conditions of men

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To adjust or adapt to a certain level.

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to level remarks to the capacity of children

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(usually with "with") To speak honestly and openly with.

It all comes down to levels of excitement.

No. Policing authorities at all levels are smart enough to accept the tips gratefully and not dig to disturb the source.

The final four are at high levels.

After the testing is over, the hard part begins; weighing and recording my compilations and comparing them to past exposure levels.

Inside, the first and second levels had been combined to create a large, tall space whose walls and ceilings were lined with paintings.

Her small, shapely form grew tenser and closer to the computer as the levels increased.

The poorer grazing lands on the upper levels of the Alps, Pyrenees, Jura and Vosges, the Landes, the more outlying regions of the central plateau, southern Brittany, Sologne, Berry, ChampagnePouilleuse, the Crau and the Carnargue, these districts being given over for the most part to sheep-raising.

On the whole it is most likely that the Temple was erected by Solomon on the same spot as is now occupied by the Dome of the Rock, commonly known as the Mosque of Omar, and, regard being had to the levels of the ground, it is possible that the Holy of Holies, the most sacred chamber of the Temple, stood over the rock which is still regarded with veneration by the Mahommedans.

On the Ness two lighthouses have been built at different levels, the lights of which are visible at 13 and 16 m.

The policy of fiscal transformation inaugurated by the Left increased revenue from indirect taxation from 17,000,000 in 1876 to more than 24,000,000 in 1887, by substituting heavy corn duties for the grist tax, and by raising the sugar and petroleum duties to unprecedented levels.

The latter are retained to warm the air at lower levels, while it remains cold at higher.

At the same time the then existing alpine floras descended to lower levels, though we may agree with Ball that they did not necessarily become extinct at higher ones as long as any land-surface remained uncovered by ice.

Amongst Rubiaceae, Cinchoneae with some outliers in the Old World have their headquarters at cooler levels.

The Australian flora has extensions at high levels in the tropics; such exists on Kinabalu in Borneo under the equator.

High mountain levels supplied paths of communication for stocking the South Temperate region, the floras of which were enriched by adapted forms of tropical types.

The Hippodrome in Paris somewhat resembles the Roman amphitheatre, being open in the centre to the sky, with seats round on rising levels.

This frame of mind, however, is mainly symptomatic of the lower levels of cult.

They consist of seven different levels, one above the other, and have eleven shafts, two of which are in the town.

The levels are connected by flights of steps, and are composed of a labyrinth of chambers and passages, whose length aggregates over 65 m.

The difference of pressure between the outside air and the smoke-box gases may be measured by the difference of the water levels in the limbs of a U tube, one limb being in communication with the smokebox, the other with the atmosphere.

Both the fauna and flora of the higher levels present close affinities with those of Mount Elgon, of other mountains of East Africa and of Cameroon Mountain.

The broad mountainous slope by which it is connected with the lower levels of Hindostan contains the ranges known as the Himalaya; the name Kuen-lun is generally applied to the northern slope that descends to the central plains of the Gobi, though these mountains are not locally known under those names, Kuen-lun being apparently a Chinese designation.

The lower levels are in climate and cultivation quite similar to the regions in the same latitude on the Malay peninsula.

Plantains, tree-ferns, bamboos, several Calami, and other palms, and Pandanus, are abundant at the lower levels.

Vines are extensively cultivated on the low levels, and a variety of domestic trades are prosecuted in the villages.

In this table measurements of price movements stated both absolutely and as percentages of price levels are given, because authorities have expressed doubts as to whether the former or the latter might be expected to remain constant, other things being equal, when price rose.

Surface currents are set up by prevailing winds, which also seriously affect water levels, lowering the water at Chicago and raising it at the strait, or the reverse, so as greatly to inconvenience navigation.

North of the Tholos is the long portico described in inscriptions as the Abaton; it is on two different levels, and the lower or western portion of it had two storeys, of which the upper one was on a level with the ground in the eastern portion.

Given that such observations at the surface of the sea, at intermediate levels and at the bottom are sufficiently numerous and are of a high degree of precision, general conclusions as to the movements of the ocean may be deduced from established theorems in hydrodynamics.

Samples of water are collected periodically from a number of places in a large sea-area (the North or Norwegian seas, or the English Channel, for instance) at the surface, bottom and a number of intermediate levels.

And it is along these trenches that the principal commercial routes have been made for reaching the higher levels of the plateau itself.

The action depends upon the difference of the pressure on the liquid at the extremities of the tube, the flow being towards the lower level and ceasing when the levels coincide.

St Elmo's fire is most frequently observed at low levels through the winter season during and after snowstorms.

The higher levels of this plain are covered with shrubs and small trees, principally mimosas.

The Metazoa form two main branches; one, Parazoa, is but a small unproductive stock comprising only the Phylum Porifera or Sponges; the other, the great stem of the animal series Enterozoa, gives rise to a large number of diverging Phyla which it is necessary to assign to two levels or grades - a lower, Enterocoela (often called Coelentera), and a higher, Coelomocoela (often called Coelomata).

Thus the reciprocity of the various organs, maintained throughout the divisions of physiological labour, is not merely a mechanical stability; it is also a mutual equilibration in functions incessantly at work on chemical levels, and on those levels of still higher complexity which seem to rise as far beyond chemistry as chemistry beyond physics.

The levels are supposed to be I o fathoms (60 ft.) apart.

In metalmines the main passages are known as levels, and these are connected at intervals by winzes or small shafts.

In this method of mining no pillars need be left under the levels, as the rock-filling gives sufficient support to the roof.

In the working of thick deposits the block of ground between two levels is divided into horizontal sections or floors which are worked either from above downward or from of Thick the bottom upward; in the first case the separate floors are worked by one of the caving systems; in the second, generally with the aid of filling.

There is considerable thickness of old timber left from the working of the upper levels.

Fixed drums are best for mines in which the hoisting is done chiefly from one level; independent drums when there are a number of different levels.

If the two openings to the mine are at different levels the difference in weight of the inside and outside air due to difference in temperature causes a current, and in the winter months large volumes of air will be circulated through the mine from this cause alone.

The result is explained only by the dialogue, recorded exclusively in John, which shows the accused and the Roman meeting on the highest levels of the thought and conscience of the time.

In alluvial deposits the richest ground is usually found in contact with the "bed rock"; and, when the overlying cover of gravel is very thick, or, as sometimes happens, when the older gravel is covered with a flow of basalt, regular mining by shafts and levels, as in what are known as tunnel-claims, may be required to reach the auriferous ground.

The rivers having, by the silt of ages, gradually raised their beds, now run along high levels.

The Blue Clay forms, at the higher levels, a stratum impervious to water, and holds up the rainfall, which soaks through the spongy mass of the superimposed coralline formations.

When the volatilization is quite complete, the level is accurately adjusted, and the difference of the levels of the mercury gives the pressure exerted by the vapour.

The mode of winning by level is of less general application than that by shafts, as the capacity for production is less, owing to the smaller size of roadways by which the coal must be brought to the surface, levels of large section being expensive and difficult to keep open when the mine has been for some time at work.

The methods adopted in driving levels for collieries are generally similar to those adopted in other mines.