Definition of level

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Level (n.) A horizontal passage, drift, or adit, in a mine..

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Bed :: Bed (n.) A plat or level piece of ground in a garden, usually a little raised above the adjoining ground..
Amphitheatre :: Amphitheatre (n.) Anything resembling an amphitheater in form; as, a level surrounded by rising slopes or hills, or a rising gallery in a theater..
Level :: Level (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..
Strickle :: Strickle (n.) An instrument to strike grain to a level with the measure; a strike.
Butte :: Butte (n.) A detached low mountain, or high rising abruptly from the general level of the surrounding plain; -- applied to peculiar elevations in the Rocky Mountain region..
Y :: Y (n.) One of the forked holders for supporting the telescope of a leveling instrument, or the axis of a theodolite; a wye..
Levelled :: Levelled () of Leve.
Flat :: Flat (superl.) Lying at full length, or spread out, upon the ground; level with the ground or earth; prostrate; as, to lie flat on the ground; hence, fallen; laid low; ruined; destroyed..
Pit :: Pit (n.) Formerly, that part of a theater, on the floor of the house, below the level of the stage and behind the orchestra; now, in England, commonly the part behind the stalls; in the United States, the parquet; also, the occupants of such a part of a theater..
Rise :: Rise (v.) To reach a higher level by increase of quantity or bulk; to swell; as, a river rises in its bed; the mercury rises in the thermometer..
Standpipe :: Standpipe (n.) A vertical pipe, open at the top, between a hydrant and a reservoir, to equalize the flow of water; also, a large vertical pipe, near a pumping engine, into which water is forced up, so as to give it sufficient head to rise to the required level at a distance..
Crosscut :: Crosscut (n.) A level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another..
Cathetometer :: Cathetometer (n.) An instrument for the accurate measurement of small differences of height; esp. of the differences in the height of the upper surfaces of two columns of mercury or other fluid, or of the same column at different times. It consists of a telescopic leveling apparatus (d), which slides up or down a perpendicular metallic standard very finely graduated (bb). The telescope is raised or depressed in order to sight the objects or surfaces, and the differences in vertical height are th
Altitude :: Altitude (n.) Space extended upward; height; the perpendicular elevation of an object above its foundation, above the ground, or above a given level, or of one object above another; as, the altitude of a mountain, or of a bird above the top of a tree..
Settle :: Settle (v. i.) To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, as the foundation of a house, etc..
Levelly :: Levelly (adv.) In an even or level manner.
Grade :: Grade (n.) The rate of ascent or descent; gradient; deviation from a level surface to an inclined plane; -- usually stated as so many feet per mile, or as one foot rise or fall in so many of horizontal distance; as, a heavy grade; a grade of twenty feet per mile, or of 1 in 264..
Sea Level :: Sea level () The level of the surface of the sea; any surface on the same level with the sea.
Flat :: Flat (n.) A level tract lying at little depth below the surface of water, or alternately covered and left bare by the tide; a shoal; a shallow; a strand..
Slant :: Slant (v. i.) To be turned or inclined from a right line or level; to lie obliquely; to slope.
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