What is the meaning of level?

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