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leveling

ˈlɛvəlɪŋ
WordNet
Short-sleeved hauberk. Vertical opening at the level of the neck. To the left and right of it, a few (square) bolts are attached to the chainmail.
Short-sleeved hauberk. Vertical opening at the level of the neck. To the left and right of it, a few (square) bolts are attached to the chainmail.
  1. (n) leveling
    the act of making equal or uniform
  2. (n) leveling
    complete destruction of a building
  3. (n) leveling
    changing the ground level to a smooth horizontal or gently sloping surface
Illustrations
Mary holds the Christ child at eye level. He has put his arms around her neck.
Mary holds the Christ child at eye level. He has put his arms around her neck.
Cast iron fireback with a tri-level top. In the center is a rearing horse with Frederik Hendrik on it with a cityscape in the background. Directly below the inscription: THE PRINCE VAN ORANIEN. The whole is framed with a rim, decorated with a pearl rim and a twisted column with leaf tendrils on both sides. Garlands are hung at the top. The top is crowned with three pomegranates.
Cast iron fireback with a tri-level top. In the center is a rearing horse with Frederik Hendrik on it with a cityscape in the background. Directly below the inscription: THE PRINCE VAN ORANIEN. The whole is framed with a rim, decorated with a pearl rim and a twisted column with leaf tendrils on both sides. Garlands are hung at the top. The top is crowned with three pomegranates.
Copper medal. Front: ship on water; right: hand holding water level lead within circle; cut-off: year. Reverse: coat of arms under two helmets, flanked by two wild men with club and banner above year
Copper medal. Front: ship on water; right: hand holding water level lead within circle; cut-off: year. Reverse: coat of arms under two helmets, flanked by two wild men with club and banner above year
Two sideboards, each with two levels. The left one has four free-standing pillars. The top two are terms. The right one has square columns that are thinner downwards. The print is part of an album.
Two sideboards, each with two levels. The left one has four free-standing pillars. The top two are terms. The right one has square columns that are thinner downwards. The print is part of an album.
The books are spread over several levels, accessible by iron stairs and railings. In the foreground a man is bent over an open book. Behind him a man pulls out a volume of the 'Illustrierte Zeitung'. Text on verso.
The books are spread over several levels, accessible by iron stairs and railings. In the foreground a man is bent over an open book. Behind him a man pulls out a volume of the 'Illustrierte Zeitung'. Text on verso.
Brass medal. Front: trestle, spirit level, drill, square, plumb line and compass; below: lying beer jug within two-line text. Reverse: wood saw, chest, ax, sawyers stool or key and other tools above number 23 within two-line lettering
Brass medal. Front: trestle, spirit level, drill, square, plumb line and compass; below: lying beer jug within two-line text. Reverse: wood saw, chest, ax, sawyers stool or key and other tools above number 23 within two-line lettering
Two sideboards. The left one has two levels. The bottom part is open. Female busts have been incorporated in the two free-standing columns. The right sideboard is closed and has fluted columns of the Ionic order. The print is part of an album.
Two sideboards. The left one has two levels. The bottom part is open. Female busts have been incorporated in the two free-standing columns. The right sideboard is closed and has fluted columns of the Ionic order. The print is part of an album.
Part block and part truss model (starboard). The skin above the waterline is closed. Three levels: on blocks is the very low lower deck, on which two fire ovens have been installed; half deck and baking deck, on the baking deck a chimney; upper campain. Deck beams lie across the pit. Round stern with a drop gate. The sheer runs to the front and rear, two barwoods and one roewood. Round bilge with flat bottom.
Part block and part truss model (starboard). The skin above the waterline is closed. Three levels: on blocks is the very low lower deck, on which two fire ovens have been installed; half deck and baking deck, on the baking deck a chimney; upper campain. Deck beams lie across the pit. Round stern with a drop gate. The sheer runs to the front and rear, two barwoods and one roewood. Round bilge with flat bottom.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
Death Valley, California, has a point that is 280 feet below sea level.
  1. Leveling
    The act or operation of making level.
  2. Leveling
    (Surveying) The art or operation of using a leveling instrument for finding a horizontal line, for ascertaining the differences of level between different points of the earth's surface included in a survey, for establishing grades, etc., as in finding the descent of a river, or locating a line of railroad.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
The deepest spot in any ocean is the Mariana Trench. It's 36,198 feet below sea level (about seven miles).
  1. (n) leveling
    The act or process of reducing an uneven surface to a level or plane.
  2. (n) leveling
    The art or operation of ascertaining the different elevations of objects on the surface of the earth; the art or practice of finding how much any assigned point on the earth's surface included in a survey is higher or lower than another assigned point. It is a branch of surveying of great importance in making roads, determining the proper lines for railways, conducting water, draining low grounds, rendering rivers navigable, forming canals, and the like. The instruments commonly employed are a level or leveling-instrument and a pair of leveling-staffs. One of the staffs is held up vertically, resting upon the ground at the initial point. The observer then goes forward with his instrument for a convenient distance, makes his telescope level, and directs the rod-man to raise or lower the target until it is at the height of the telescope. This is called a backsight. The height of the target on the rod is now read. The other rod has meantime been carried forward, and is observed in the same manner. This is called a fore-sight. The instrument is now carried forward and a back-sight is made on the last rod. When a bench-mark or other terminus is reached, all the fore-sights are added together, as well as all the back-sights, and the difference of the sums is the difference of elevation.
Quotations
Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.
John Welsh
Luigi Pirandello
Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.
Luigi Pirandello
If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.
Les Brown
You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.
Joe Paterno
Quentin Crisp
However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.
Quentin Crisp
No matter what the level of your ability, you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime.
James T. Mccay
Idioms

Dead level best - If you try your dead level best, you try as hard as you possibly could to do something.

On the level - If someone is honest and trustworthy, they are on the level.

Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Written also levelling,

Usage in the news

As manure pit levels continue to fill this time of year, foam levels may reach the slats and reduce the air exchange in the building. nationalhogfarmer.com

Endress+Hauser recently announced the availability of its new Liquiphant FTL 20, a low-cost point level switch for liquids level measurement. ceramicindustry.com

Latest figures have the level at 3,627 feet above sea level. saltlakemagazine.com

MTS Sensors Develops Its Level Plus liquid Level Transmitters. controlglobal.com

Livin' is Easy with Level-Headed Liquid-Level Transmitters. controlglobal.com

DL Manufacturing's Leveler Koozi is an energy savings kit suitable for most existing loading dock levelers . refrigeratedtrans.com

Limiters help control power levels within a system, protecting sensitive components (like receivers) from sudden surges in signal level. mwrf.com

' … The flavors we added were chosen to complement the Scotch, and bring it to a new level –- this is in contrast to many of the mass-marketed liqueurs which use huge levels of swee... blog.timesunion.com

DL Manufacturing's Leveler Koozi is an energy savings kit suitable for most existing loading dock levelers. refrigeratedtrans.com

Sands Level & Tool Co.® now offers Professional Top Reading Mahogany I-Beam Levels. masonrymagazine.com

Brown marmorated stink bug levels were discovered to be above threshold levels in both corn and soybean fields. southeastfarmpress.com

We passed through all his levels of instruction and attended his " graduate" level. texasmonthly.com

Level 1 offenders are required to register for a minimum of 20 years, and Level 2 and 3 offenders for life. newsday.com

RECEPTION (LOWER LEVEL): 35 SEATED (UPPER LEVEL): 20 605 SQUARE FEET. scholastic.com

The amount of pork in freezers is beginning to be a bit concerning, especially when the fourth- highest level ever occurs on Sept 30, just in front of what are usually the highest slaughter levels of the year. nationalhogfarmer.com

Usage in scientific papers

D(e) > τhn } , := {the walk visits the level hn n times before reaching the root or the level 2hn} , := {after the n-th visit of level hn , the walk reaches level 2hn before level hn} , := {after time τ2hn the walk never comes back to level 2hn − 1} .
Large deviations for random walks in random environment on a Galton-Watson tree

In our conceptual model, it would mean that the student will be first processing at the DR c onceptual level and then going to the Eval level to evaluate statements at the operational and returning again to the DR level.
On Requirements for Programming Exercises from an E-learning Perspective

LABEL: Fact Level-n-n+1 A level n system is strictly weaker than a level n + 1 system.
Size and Logic

An important fact is that these hypercubes, where the walk is trapped, are not level sets for the potential neither for the reversible measure denoted π , however they can be partitioned in level sets for π . A part of this work is devoted to the study of the local time of the walk on these level sets.
The local time of a random walk on growing hypercubes

We can represent the level sets in the 3-dimensionnal case as in figure 2: surfaces delimited by the black lines represent the level sets for V (on the left) and the level sets of π (on the right).
The local time of a random walk on growing hypercubes

Usage in literature

In 1881 work on a tide-level canal across the Isthmus of Panama was begun, but the plan was afterward changed to a high-level canal. "Commercial Geography" by Jacques W. Redway

Gently he declined his elevator and sank to a lower level. "Tam O' The Scoots" by Edgar Wallace

The cabin was pressurized, though it did not attempt to simulate sea-level pressure. "Space Platform" by Murray Leinster

It was that angle which helped him to the next level. "The Defiant Agents" by Andre Alice Norton

The level of violence is high and growing. "The Iraq Study Group Report" by United States Institute for Peace

The car descended to the first garage level, and Harry stood gulping gratefully in the comparative isolation. "This Crowded Earth" by Robert Bloch

I'd meet Harlan on the level, man to man, if he was lookin' for me. "'Drag' Harlan" by Charles Alden Seltzer

The country beneath us seemed fairly level. "The Fire People" by Ray Cummings

Spent a lot of money levelling it and getting it ready to water. "The Desert Fiddler" by William H. Hamby

It is also used to remove grain in breweries from a lower to a higher level. "The Sailor's Word-Book" by William Henry Smyth

Usage in poetry
Springs the whip with a crack! nine stone ten on his back,
Fit and light he can race like the devil;
I draw past him — 'tis vain; he draws past me again,
Springs the whip! and again we are level.
That came in thy absence; because of the lights
In the Passion that grew to a level with thee—
Is it well that our lives have been filled with the nights
And the days which have made it a sorrow to be?
The thoughtless birds that shook out of the trees,
Singing an ecstasy I could not share,
Played cunning in my thoughts. Surely in these
Pleasures there could not be a pain to bear
Or any discord shake the level breeze.
Not on the vulgar mass
Called "work," must sentence pass,
Things done, that took the eye and had the price;
O'er which, from level stand,
The low world laid its hand,
Found straightway to its mind, could value in a trice:
And this he must do. He may grant,
Or may deny; but hear he must.
Were his Seven Towers all adamant,
They'd soon be levelled with the dust,
And "public feeling" make short work,—
Should he not hear them,—with the Turk.
The willow bends unbroken when angry tempests blow,
The stately oak is levelled and all its strength laid low;
So fell that tower of manhood, undaunted, patient, strong,
White with the gathering snowflakes, who faced the storm so long.