Level

This table isn't quite level; see how this marble rolls off it?

the smooth and level pavement

We tried to hang the pictures so that the bottom of the frames were level with the dark line in the wallpaper.

Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.

His pulse has been level for 12 hours.

His voice has been unchanged. It has been level for 12 hours.

He kept a level head under stress.

He kept a level gaze.

Young boys and girls Are level now with men.

After a poor start to the season, Roy Hodgson's men are now unbeaten in four matches and 10th in the Premier League table, level with Aston Villa on 11 points.

a very plain and level account

a level head; a level understanding

a level consideration

Intonation or tone is either level, rising, or falling, marked respectively

The earth's oceans remain level in relation to the pull of gravity.

Hand me the level so I can tell if this is correctly installed.

By the end of the day, we'd dug down to the level of the old basement floor.

This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer.

In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra–wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.

The sound level is much too high; this hurts my ears.

We've reached a new level of success.

She achieved a high level of distinction.

Many of the levels change over time, from day to night or from one location to another, and some undergo a total transformation.

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

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

Take the elevator and get off at the promenade level.

The troops grow mutinous—the revenue fails— There’s something rotten in us—for the level Of the State slopes, its very bases topple, The boldest turn their backs upon themselves!

The most common level of the colour variable is red. The other levels are blue and green.

You can level the table by turning the pads that screw into the feet.

This pitfall, beginning in February and finishing in May, resulted in a drop of about 3 ft. in the platform level; during this period it was necessary to level the track three times weekly, and impose a service slack of 15 m.p.h. The subsidence appears now to have finished, and normal speed is once again permitted.

The work involved a complete rewiring of the system, while the addition of four higher-capacity Mechan jacks and the increased length of the new train meant the entire floor (the length of four train carriages) had to be dug up, levelled and strengthened to meet tolerance requirements.

The hurricane leveled the forest.

He levels mountains and he raises plains.

I levelled after defeating the dragon.

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

Bertram de Gordon, standing on the castle wall, levelled a quarrel out of a crossbow.

But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window […], and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.

If the right of killing salmon belong exclusively to the King, and consequently to his donatories, why has not the Legislature secured the right by levelling penalties against such as should encroach upon it … ?

How can the Minister reconcile the first statement with the clause, when he is in fact levelling punishment at the woman and not at the errant father … ?

There is no purpose in levelling fines because they would be merely paid from the £1.8 billion which the BBC collects.

Ultimately, Ms. Kroes [European Union Antitrust Commissioner] could level a fine and order Intel to change its business practices.

Holt was furious referee Michael Oliver refused to then award him a penalty after Ledley King appeared to pull his shirt and his anger was compounded when Spurs immediately levelled.

to level all the ranks and conditions of men

to level remarks to the capacity of children

For all his mind on honour fixed is, / To which he levels all his purposes.

Sean, I'll level with you. This could get ugly. Do you have a gun?