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Level can be an adjective, a verb or a noun.
level used as an adjective:
- The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.
"This table isn't quite level; see how this marble rolls off it?" - At the same height as some reference; constructed as level with.
"We tried to hang the pictures so that the bottom of the frames were level with the dark line in the wallpaper." - (Frequency) Being unvaried.
"His pulse has been level for 12 hours." - Being sensible.
"He kept a level head under stress."
Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →
level used as a verb:
- To adjust so as to make as flat or perpendicular to the ground of possible.
"You can level the table by turning the pads that screw into the feet." - To destroy by reducing to ground level; to raze.
"The hurricane leveled the forest." - To progress to the next level.
"I levelled after defeating the dragon." - To aim or direct (a weapon, a stare, an accusation, etc).
"He levelled an accusation of fraud." - To levy.
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
level used as a noun:
- A tool for finding whether a surface is level, or for creating a horizontal or vertical line of reference.
"Hand me the level so I can tell if this is correctly installed." - A distance relative to a given reference elevation.
"By the end of the day, we'd dug down to the level of the old basement floor." - Degree or amount.
"The sound level is much too high; this hurts my ears." - In an Internet post, an indication of the number of previous replies at which a portion of text was written.
- One of several discrete segments of a game generally increasing in difficulty. Often numbered. Often, each level occupies different physical space (levels don't require any direct physical relationship to each other, e.g. vertically stacked, horizontally chained, etc).
"It took me weeks to get to level seven." - A periodic progression of integer values that quantify a character's experience and power.
"My half-orc barbarian reached fifth level before he was squashed by a troll." - A floor of a multi-storey building.
"Take the elevator and get off at the promenade level." - an area of almost perfectly flat land.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is level?
- Adjective usage: This table isn't quite level; see how this marble rolls off it?
- Adjective usage: We tried to hang the pictures so that the bottom of the frames were level with the dark line in the wallpaper.
- Adjective usage: His pulse has been level for 12 hours.
- Adjective usage: He kept a level head under stress.
- Verb usage: You can level the table by turning the pads that screw into the feet.
- Verb usage: The hurricane leveled the forest.
- Verb usage: I levelled after defeating the dragon.
- Verb usage: He levelled an accusation of fraud.
- Noun usage: Hand me the level so I can tell if this is correctly installed.
- Noun usage: By the end of the day, we'd dug down to the level of the old basement floor.
- Noun usage: The sound level is much too high; this hurts my ears.
- Noun usage: We've reached a new level of success.
- Noun usage: It took me weeks to get to level seven.
- Noun usage: Watch out for the next level; the bad guys there are really overpowered.
- Noun usage: My half-orc barbarian reached fifth level before he was squashed by a troll.
- Noun usage: Take the elevator and get off at the promenade level.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of level are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of level, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
