A Quick and Simple Dictionary

level

1. Adjective.  The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.
2. Adjective.  At the same height as some reference; constructed as ''level with''.
3. Adjective.  Unvaried in frequency.
4. Adjective.  Calm.
5. Adjective.  in the same position as some thing, for example in a race or in a competition.
6. Noun.  A tool for finding whether a surface is level, or for creating a horizontal or vertical line of reference.
7. Noun.  A distance relative to a given reference elevation.
8. Noun.  Degree or amount.
9. Noun.  In an Internet post, an indication of the number of previous replies at which a portion of text was written.
10. Noun.  (context, gaming) 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).
11. Noun.  (context, gaming) A periodic progression of integer values that quantify a character's experience and power.
12. Noun.  A floor of a multi-storey building.
13. Noun.  (British) an area of almost perfectly flat land.
14. Verb.  To adjust so as to make as flat or perpendicular to the ground of possible.
15. Verb.  To destroy by reducing to ground level; to raze.
16. Verb.  (context, gaming) To progress to the next level.
17. Verb.  To aim or direct (a weapon, a stare, an accusation, etc).
18. Verb.  (nonstandard, rare) To levy.