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The same height at all places.
This table isn't quite level — see how this marble rolls off it?
Being unvaried
Being sensible
He kept a level head under stress.

level (levels)

A tool for finding whether a surface is level.
Hand me the level so I can tell if this is correctly installed.
A distance above or below a given reference.
By the end of the day, we'd dug down to the level of the old basement floor.
Degree or amount.
The sound level was much too high.

We've reached a new level of success.
(gaming) One of several discrete segments of a game generally increasing in difficulty. Often numbered. Often, each level occupies different physical space (although levels are not always vertically stacked).
It took me weeks to get to level seven.
(gaming) A periodically increasing integer that measures a character’s experience and power.
A floor on a building.
A tool used to test if a plane is perpendicular to the ground.

Bosnian: libela f (1), nivo m (2, 3, 4), stepen m (2, 3, 4)
Chinese: 水平
Dutch: niveau n
French: niveau m
German: Niveau n
Greek: επίπεδο n
Italian: livello m
Japanese: 水準, レベル
Korean: 수준 (sujun)
Norwegian: vater n (1) nivå n (2,3,4)
Portuguese: nível m
Russian: уровень m (uroven')
Serbian:
Cyrillic: либела f (1), ниво m (2, 3, 4), степен m (2, 3, 4)

Latin: libela f (1), nivo m (2, 3, 4), stepen m (2, 3, 4)
Spanish: nivel m
Swedish: vattenpass (1), nivå (2,3,4)

level (levels, leveled / levelled, leveling / levelling)

To adjust so as to make level.
You can level the table by turning the pads that screw into the feet.
To destroy by reducing to ground level.
The hurricane leveled the forest.
(gaming) To progress to the next level.
I leveled after defeating the dragon.

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 #: ''The sound level was much too high.''
 #: ''We've reached a new level of success.''
-# (''gaming'') One of several discrete segments of a game generally increasing in difficulty.  Often numbered.
+# (''gaming'') One of several discrete segments of a game generally increasing in difficulty. Often numbered. Often, each level occupies different physical space (although levels are not always vertically stacked).
 #: ''It took me weeks to get to level seven.''
+# (''gaming'') A periodically increasing integer that measures a character’s experience and power.
 # A [[floor]] on a building.
 # A tool used to test if a plane is [[perpendicular]] to the ground.
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 *Spanish: [[nivel]] ''m''
 *Swedish: [[vattenpass]] (1), [[nivå]] (2,3,4)
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