Level vs Clear - What's the difference?
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The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.
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At the same height as some reference; constructed as level with .
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Calm.
In the same position or rank.
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Straightforward; direct; clear.
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Well balanced; even; just; steady; impartial.
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(phonetics) Of even tone; without rising or falling inflection.
A tool for finding whether a surface is , or for creating a horizontal or vertical line of reference.
A distance relative to a given reference elevation.
Degree or amount.
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(computer science) Distance from the root node of a tree structure.
(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).
(gaming) A numeric value that quantifies a character's experience and power.
A floor of a multi-storey building.
(British) an area of almost perfectly flat land.
To adjust so as to make as flat or perpendicular to the ground as possible.
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To destroy by reducing to ground level; to raze.
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*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:He levels mountains and he raises plains.
(lb) To progress to the next level.
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To aim or direct (a weapon, a stare, an accusation, etc).
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*(John Stow) (c.1525–1605)
*:Bertram de Gordon, standing on the castle wall, levelled a quarrel out of a crossbow.
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*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window […], and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.
To make the score of a game equal.
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*2007 , Mary Jacoby, EU investigators endorse charges against Intel , Wall Street Journal Europe, 17 January, p.32, col.5:
*:Ultimately, Ms. Kroes [European Union Antitrust Commissioner] could level a fine and order Intel to change its business practices.
(lb) To bring to a common level or plane, in respect of rank, condition, character, privilege, etc.
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To adjust or adapt to a certain level.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:For all his mind on honour fixed is, / To which he levels all his purposes.
Transparent in colour.
Bright, not dark or obscured.
Free of obstacles.
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(lb) Of the sky, such that less than one eighth of its area is obscured by clouds.
Free of ambiguity or doubt.
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(lb) Free of guilt, or suspicion.
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
(lb) Without a thickening ingredient.
Possessing little or no perceptible stimulus.
(lb) Free from the influence of engrams; see .
Able to perceive clearly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
Not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
Easily or distinctly heard; audible.
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
Unmixed; entirely pure.
Without defects or blemishes, such as freckles or knots.
Without diminution; in full; net.
* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
All the way; entirely.
Not near something or touching it.
free (or separate) from others
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(obsolete) In a clear manner; plainly.
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(lb) To remove obstructions or impediments from.
*1715–8 , (Matthew Prior), “Alma: or, The Progre?s of the Mind” in Poems on Several Occa?ions (1741), canto III,
*:Faith, Dick, I mu?t confe?s, ?tis true // (But this is only Entre Nous ) // That many knotty Points there are, // Which All di?cu?s, but Few can clear .
*(Joseph Addison) (1672–1719)
*:A statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter.
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*:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable,.
(lb) To eliminate ambiguity or doubt from a matter; to clarify; especially, to clear up.
(lb) To remove from suspicion, especially of having committed a crime.
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*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:Iam sure he will clear me from partiality.
*(Joseph Addison) (1672–1719)
*:Wouldst thou clear rebellion?
(lb) To pass without interference; to miss.
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(lb) To become clear.
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(lb) Of a check or financial transaction, to go through as payment; to be processed so that the money is transferred.
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To earn a profit of; to net.
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(lb) To obtain permission to use (a sample of copyrighted audio) in another track.
To disengage oneself from incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free.
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*:Be?ides, he that cleares' at once will relap?e: for finding him?elfe out of ?traights, he will reuert to his cu?tomes. But hee that ' cleareth by degrees, induceth an habite of frugality, and gaineth as well vpon his minde, as vpon his E?tate.
To obtain a clearance.
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(lb) To defend by hitting (or kicking, throwing, heading etc.) the ball (or puck) from the defending goal.
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To reset or unset; to return to an empty state or to zero.
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(carpentry) Full extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls.
Level is a related term of clear.
As nouns the difference between level and clear
is that level is leaf (part of a plant) while clear is (scientology) an idea state of beingness free of unwanted influences.level
English
(wikipedia level)Adjective
(er)- the smooth and level pavement
citation, passage=Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the house.}}
- Young boys and girls / Are level now with men.
citation, passage=After a poor start to the season, Roy Hodgson's men are now unbeaten in four matches and 10th in the Premier League table, level with Aston Villa on 11 points.}}
- a very plain and level account
- a level''' head; a '''level understanding
- a level consideration
Antonyms
* unbalanced * uneven * tiltedDerived terms
* level playing field * dead levelNoun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer.}}
citation, passage=In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra–wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.}}
Derived terms
* bonus level * dead level * on the level * spirit level * split level * to the next levelSee also
*Verb
Tottenham 1-2 Norwich, passage=Holt was furious referee Michael Oliver refused to then award him a penalty after Ledley King appeared to pull his shirt and his anger was compounded when Spurs immediately levelled .}}
Derived terms
* level out * level up * level with someoneExternal links
* * English palindromesclear
English
Alternative forms
* (contraction used in electronics)Adjective
(er)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path
- Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.
The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.
- Statesman, yet friend to truth! in soul sincere, / In action faithful, and in honour clear .
- Mother of science! now I feel thy power / Within me clear , not only to discern / Things in their causes, but to trace the ways / Of highest agents.
- With a countenance as clear / As friendship wears at feasts.
- Hark! the numbers soft and clear / Gently steal upon the ear.
- I often wished that I had clear , / For life, six hundred pounds a year.
Antonyms
* obscure * (of a soup) thickDerived terms
* as clear as a bell * as clear as day * as clear as mud * clarity * clearly * clearness * crystal clear * free and clear * in the clear * keep a clear head * keep clearAdverb
(-)- I threw it clear across the river to the other side.
- Stand clear of the rails, a train is coming.
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- Now clear I understand.
Verb
(en verb)p.297:
citation, passage=‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared .
Unspontaneous combustion, passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear' its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to ' clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.}}
- the profit which she cleared on the cargo
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citation, passage=Bolton then went even closer when Elmander's cross was met by a bullet header from Holden, which forced a wonderful tip over from Cech before Drogba then cleared the resulting corner off the line.}}
Synonyms
* (clear a forest) stubDerived terms
* clear away * clear off * clear out * clear up * clearance * clearingNoun
(en noun)- a room ten feet square in the clear