level > define

noun

• A position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality.
  • usage: "a moderate grade of intelligence"; "a high level of care is required"; "it is all a matter of degree"
  • synonyms: degree, grade
• A relative position or degree of value in a graded group.
  • usage: "lumber of the highest grade"
  • synonyms: grade, tier
• A specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process.
  • usage: "a remarkable degree of frankness"; "at what stage are the social sciences"
  • synonyms: degree, stage, point
• Height above ground.
  • usage: "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.
  • synonyms: spirit level
• A flat surface at right angles to a plumb line.
  • usage: "park the car on the level"
  • synonyms: horizontal surface
• An abstract place usually conceived as having depth.
  • usage: "a good actor communicates on several levels"; "a simile has at least two layers of meaning"; "the mind functions on many strata simultaneously"
  • synonyms: layer, stratum
• A structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale.
  • usage: "what level is the office on"
  • synonyms: floor, storey, story

verb

• Aim at.
  • usage: "level criticism or charges at somebody"
• Tear down so as to make flat with the ground.
  • usage: "The building was levelled"
  • synonyms: raze, rase, dismantle, tear down, take down, pull down
• Make level or straight.
  • usage: "level the ground"
  • synonyms: flush, even out, even
• Direct into a position for use.
  • usage: "point a gun"; "He charged his weapon at me"
  • synonyms: charge, point
• Talk frankly with; lay it on the line.
  • usage: "I have to level with you"
• Become level or even.
  • usage: "The ground levelled off"
  • synonyms: level off

adjective

• Having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another.
  • usage: "a flat desk"; "acres of level farmland"; "a plane surface"; "skirts sewn with fine flat seams"
  • synonyms: flat, plane
• Not showing abrupt variations."spoke in a level voice"; "she gave him a level look- Louis Auchincloss
  • synonyms: unwavering
• Being on a precise horizontal plane.
  • usage: "a billiard table must be level"
• Oriented at right angles to the plumb.
  • usage: "the picture is level"
• Of the score in a contest.
  • usage: "the score is tied"
  • synonyms: tied, even

• Well balanced; even; just; steady; impartial; as, a level head; a level understanding. [Colloq.].
• (a.) Of even tone; without rising or falling inflection.
• (n.) Hence, figuratively, a certain position, rank, standard, degree, quality, character, etc., conceived of as in one of several planes of different elevation.
• (a.) Even with anything else; of the same height; on the same line or plane; on the same footing; of equal importance; -- followed by with, sometimes by to.
• (a.) Even; flat; having no part higher than another; having or conforming to, the curvature which belongs to the undisturbed liquid parts of the earth's surface; as, a level field; level ground; the level surface of a pond or lake.
• (a.) Coinciding or parallel with the plane of the horizon; horizontal; as, the telescope is now level.
• (v.t.) 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.
• (n.) A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is everywhere parallel to the surface of still water; -- this is the true level, and is a curve or surface in which all points are equally distant from the center of the earth or rather would be so if the earth were an exact sphere.
• (v.i.) To be level; to be on a level with or on an equality with, something; hence, to accord; to agree; to suit.
• (v.t.) To bring to a horizontal position, as a gun; hence, to point in taking aim; to aim; to direct.
• (v.t.) 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.
• (n.) A horizontal passage, drift or adit, in a mine.
• (v.t.) To bring to a lower level; to overthrow; to topple down; to reduce to a flat surface; to lower.
• (n.) A measurement of the difference of altitude of two points, by means of a level; as, to take a level.
• (a.) Straightforward; direct; clear; open.
• (n.) A horizontal line or plane; that is, a straight line or a plane which is tangent to a true level at a given point and hence parallel to the horizon at that point; -- this is the apparent level at the given point.
• (n.) An approximately horizontal line or surface at a certain degree of altitude or distance from the center of the earth; as, to climb from the level of the coast to the level of the plateau and then descend to the level of the valley or of the sea.
• (n.) A uniform or average height; a normal plane or altitude; a condition conformable to natural law or which will secure a level surface; as, moving fluids seek a level.
• (n.) An instrument by which to find a horizontal line or adjust something with reference to a horizontal line.
• (v.i.) To aim a gun, spear, etc., horizontally; hence, to aim or point a weapon in direct line with the mark; fig., to direct the eye, mind or effort, directly to an object.
• (v.t.) To adjust or adapt to a certain level; as, to level remarks to the capacity of children.

Level is used in the context of general equities. Price measure of an indication.