Level vs Fair - What's the difference?
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The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.
* Milton
At the same height as some reference; constructed as level with .
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Calm.
In the same position or rank.
* Shakespeare
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Straightforward; direct; clear.
* M. Arnold
Well balanced; even; just; steady; impartial.
* Shakespeare
(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.
Beautiful, of a pleasing appearance, with a pure and fresh quality.
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, title= Unblemished (figuratively or literally); clean and pure; innocent.
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*Book of Common Prayer
*:a fair white linen cloth
Light in color, pale, particularly as regards skin tone but also referring to blond hair.
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*1677 , (Matthew Hale),
*:the northern people large and fair -complexioned
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*:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. In complexion fair , and with blue or gray eyes, he was tall as any Viking, as broad in the shoulder.
Just, equitable.
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*:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
Adequate, reasonable, or decent.
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, title= Favorable to a ship's course.
Not overcast; cloudless; clear; pleasant; propitious; said of the sky, weather, or wind, etc.
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*(Matthew Prior) (1664-1721)
*:You wish fair winds may waft him over.
Free from obstacles or hindrances; unobstructed; unencumbered; open; direct; said of a road, passage, etc.
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*Sir (Walter Raleigh) (ca.1554-1618)
*:The caliphs obtained a mighty empire, which was in a fair way to have enlarged.
(lb) Without sudden change of direction or curvature; smooth; flowing; said of the figure of a vessel, and of surfaces, water lines, and other lines.
(lb) Between the baselines.
Something which is fair (in various senses of the adjective).
(obsolete) A woman, a member of the ‘fair sex’; also as a collective singular, women.
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* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 39:
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , III.24:
(obsolete) Fairness, beauty.
A fair woman; a sweetheart.
* Shenstone
(obsolete) Good fortune; good luck.
* Shakespeare
To smoothen or even a surface (especially a connection or junction on a surface).
To bring into perfect alignment (especially about rivet holes when connecting structural members).
To construct or design a structure whose primary function is to produce a smooth outline or reduce air drag or water resistance.
(obsolete) To make fair or beautiful.
* Shakespeare
A community gathering to celebrate and exhibit local achievements.
An event for public entertainment and trade, a market.
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, title= An event for professionals in a trade to learn of new products and do business.
A funfair, an amusement park.
As a noun level
is leaf (part of a plant).As a proper noun fair is
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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 palindromesfair
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) fayr, feir, fager, from (etyl) .Adjective
(er)A Princess of Mars, passage="It was a purely scientific research party sent out by my father's father, the Jeddak of Helium, to rechart the air currents, and to take atmospheric density tests," replied the fair prisoner, in a low, well-modulated voice.}}
Beowulf, genre=Fiction, publisher=iUniverse, isbn=9781440156977, page=33 , passage=And yet he was also, though many generations separated them, distant cousin to the shining eoten-main Geard, whom the god Frea Ing had seen from afar and wedded; and to Scatha, the fair daughter of the old thurse Theasa, who had claimed a husband from among the gods as weregild for her father's slaying: often, it was said, the ugliest eotens would sire the fairest maids.}}
The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, page 200
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}
Synonyms
* (beautiful) beautiful, pretty, lovely * (unblemished) pure, clean, neat * (light in color) pale * (just) honest, just, equitableDerived terms
* all's fair in love and war * fair and square * fair cop * fair copy * fair go * fair play * fair sex * fair to middling * fair use * fair-weather friend * to be fairNoun
(fair)- When will we learn to distinguish between the fair and the foul?
- ''Love and Hymen, hand in hand,
- ''Come, restore the nuptial band!
- ''And sincere delights prepare
- ''To crown the hero and the fair .
- In enjoying, therefore, such place of rendezvous, the British fair ought to esteem themselves more happy than any of their foreign sisters
- If single, probably his plighted Fair / Has in his absence wedded some rich miser [...].
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- I have found out a gift for my fair .
- Now fair befall thee!
Verb
(en verb)- Fairing the foul.
Synonyms
* (to reduce air drag or water resistance) to streamlineDerived terms
* fair off * fair up * fairingDerived terms
* bid fair * fair and squareEtymology 2
From (etyl) feire, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.}}