Level vs Zone - 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.
* 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.
Each of the five regions of the earth's surface into which it was divided by climatic differences, namely the torrid zone (between the tropics), two temperate zones (between the tropics and the polar circles), and two frigid zones (within the polar circles).
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* 1841 , (George Bancroft), History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent , Volume 2,
Any given region or area of the world.
A given area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic, use, restriction, etc.
A band or area of growth encircling anything.
A band or stripe extending around a body.
(crystallography) A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections.
(baseball) Short for the strike zone.
(chiefly, sports) A high-performance phase or period.
(networking) That collection of a domain's DNS resource records, the domain and its subdomains]], that are not [[delegate, delegated to another authority.
(Apple computing) A logical group of network devices on AppleTalk.
A belt or girdle.
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(geometry) The curved surface of a frustum of a sphere, the portion of surface of a sphere delimited by parallel planes.
* 1835 , Charles Davies, David Brewster (editors and translators), , Elements of Geometry and Trigonometry'', [1794, ''Eléments de géométrie ],
* 2014 , John Bird, Engineering Mathematics ,
(geometry, loosely, perhaps by meronymy) A frustum of a sphere.
A circuit; a circumference.
To divide into or assign sections or areas.
To define the property use classification of an area.
To enter a daydream state temporarily, for instance as a result of boredom, fatigue, or intoxication; to doze off.
To girdle or encircle.
Level is a synonym of zone.
As nouns the difference between level and zone
is that level is leaf (part of a plant) while zone is zone.level
English
(wikipedia level)Adjective
(er)- the smooth and level pavement
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- 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 palindromeszone
English
Noun
(en noun)- To avoid which, we will take any pains […]; we will dive to the bottom of the sea, to the bowels of the earth, five, six, seven, eight, nine hundred fathom deep, through all five zones , and both extremes of heat and cold […].
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- And while idle curiosity may take its walk in shady avenues by the ocean side, commercedefies every wind, outrides every tempest, and invades every zone .
- There is a no-smoking zone that extends 25 feet outside of each entrance.
- The white zone is for loading and unloading only.
- a zone''' of evergreens on a mountain; the '''zone of animal or vegetable life in the ocean around an island or a continent
- That pitch was low and away, just outside of the zone .
- I just got in the zone late in the game: everything was going in.
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- Her tapered fingers too with rings are graced, / And an embroidered zone surrounds her slender waist.
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- From the wai?t downwards, they wore a loo?e robe, girt with an embroidered zone or belt about the middle, with a large cla?p of gold, and a precious ?tone.
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- Love fram'd with Mirth a gay fantastic round, / Loose were her tresses seen, her zone unbound,
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- There was the Donna Julia, whom to call / Pretty were but to give a feeble notion / Of many charms in her as natural / As sweetness to the flower, or salt to ocean, / Her zone to Venus, or his bow to Cupid / (But this last simile is trite and stupid).
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- it was the prettiest thing to see her girding on the precious little zone , and yet obliged to have assistance because her fingers were in such terrible perplexity; […].
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- To find the surface of a spherical zone .
- Rule.—Multiply the altitude of the zone by the circumference of a great circle of the sphere, and the product will be the surface (Book VIII. Prop. X. Sch. 1).
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- A zone of a sphere' is the curved surface of a frustum.Determine, correct to 3 significant figures (a) the volume of the frustum of the sphere, (b) the radius of the sphere and (c) the area of the ' zone formed.
- (Milton)
Synonyms
* (area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic etc) area, belt, district, region, section, sector, sphere, territory * * (high performance phase or period) * * *Derived terms
* * * * * * * * * * * * demilitarized zone, DMZ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *See also
* alb * epigonation * epimanikion * epitrachelion * maniple * mitre * omophorion * rhason * sakkos * sticharion * zone fileVerb
- Please zone off our staging area, a section for each group.
- This area was zoned for industrial use.
- I must have zoned while he was giving us the directions.
- Everyone just put their goddamn heads together and zoned . (Byron Coley, liner notes for the album "Piece for Jetsun Dolma" by Thurston Moore)