Level vs. Step
Difference Between Level and Step
Level➦
a horizontal plane or line with respect to the distance above or below a given point
the front garden is on a level with this floor
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Step➦
The single complete movement of raising one foot and putting it down in another spot, as in walking.
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Level➦
a position on a scale of amount, quantity, extent, or quality
debt rose to unprecedented levels
a high level of unemployment
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Step➦
A manner of walking; a particular gait.
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Level➦
(in a video game) each of a series of stages of increasing difficulty through which a player may progress, completing one stage in order to reach the next
I've now reached level 106 on Candy Crush Saga
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Step➦
A fixed rhythm or pace, as in marching
keep step.
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Level➦
an instrument marked with a line parallel to the plane of the horizon for testing whether things are horizontal.
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Step➦
The sound of a footstep.
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Level➦
a flat tract of land
the Somerset Levels
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Step➦
A footprint
steps in the mud.
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Level➦
having a flat, horizontal surface
we had reached level ground
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Step➦
The distance traversed by moving one foot ahead of the other.
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Level➦
at the same height as someone or something else
his eyes were level with hers
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Step➦
A very short distance
just a step away.
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Level➦
having the same relative position; not in front of or behind
the car backed rapidly until it was level with me
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Step➦
steps Course; path
turned her steps toward home.
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Level➦
calm and steady
the cold, level gaze he had given her
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Step➦
One of a series of rhythmical, patterned movements of the feet used in a dance
diagrammed the basic steps to the mambo.
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Level➦
give a flat and even surface to
contractors started levelling the ground for the new power station
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Step➦
A rest for the foot in ascending or descending.
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Level➦
begin to fly horizontally after climbing or diving
he quickly levelled off at 1500 ft
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Step➦
steps Stairs.
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Level➦
make (something, especially a score in sport) equal or similar
Woods sliced the ball into the net to level the score
Ardsley deservedly levelled with two minutes remaining
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Step➦
Something, such as a ledge or an offset, that resembles a step of a stairway.
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Level➦
aim (a weapon)
he levelled a pistol at us
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Step➦
A low platform used for exercise, as in step aerobics.
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Level➦
be frank or honest with (someone)
when are you going to level with me?
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Step➦
One of a series of actions, processes, or measures taken to achieve a goal.
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Level➦
ascertain differences in the height of (land).
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Step➦
A stage in a process
followed every step in the instructions.
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Level➦
Relative position or rank on a scale
the local level of government.
studying at the graduate level.
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Step➦
A degree in progress or a grade or rank in a scale
a step up in the corporate hierarchy.
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Level➦
A relative degree, as of achievement, intensity, or concentration
an unsafe level of toxicity.
a high level of frustration.
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Step➦
The interval that separates two successive tones of a scale, especially a major second, as between C and D in the scale of C major.
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Level➦
A natural or proper position, place, or stage
I finally found my own level in the business world.
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Step➦
A degree of a scale.
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Level➦
Position along a vertical axis; height or depth
a platform at knee level.
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Step➦
(Nautical) The block in which the heel of a mast is fixed.
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Level➦
A horizontal line or plane at right angles to the plumb.
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Step➦
To put or press the foot
step on the brake.
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Level➦
The position or height of such a line or plane.
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Step➦
To shift or move slightly by taking a step or two
step back.
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Level➦
A flat, horizontal surface.
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Step➦
To walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified direction
step over to the corner.
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Level➦
A land area of uniform elevation.
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Step➦
To move with the feet in a particular manner
step lively.
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Level➦
An instrument for ascertaining whether a surface is horizontal, vertical, or at a 45° angle, consisting essentially of an encased, liquid-filled tube containing an air bubble that moves to a center window when the instrument is set on an even plane. Also called spirit level.
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Step➦
To move into a new situation by or as if by taking a single step
stepping into a life of ease.
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Level➦
Such a device combined with a telescope and used in surveying.
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Step➦
To treat someone with arrogant indifference
He is always stepping on other people.
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Level➦
A computation of the difference in elevation between two points by using such a device.
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Step➦
To put or set (the foot) down
step foot on land.
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Level➦
Having a flat, smooth surface
a level countertop.
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Step➦
To measure by pacing
step off ten yards.
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Being on a horizontal plane
a level field.
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Step➦
To furnish with steps; make steps in
terraces that are stepped along the hillside.
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Level➦
Being at the same height or position as another; even.
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Step➦
(Computers) To cause (a computer) to execute a single instruction.
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Level➦
Being at the same degree of rank, standing, or advantage as another; equal.
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Step➦
(Nautical) To place (a mast) in its step.
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Level➦
Being or relating to a specified rank or standing. Often used in combination
a lower-level administrator.
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Step➦
An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
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Level➦
Exhibiting no abrupt variations; steady
spoke in a level tone.
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Step➦
A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a ladder.
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Level➦
Rational and balanced; sensible
came to a level appraisal of the situation.
keeps a level head in an emergency.
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Step➦
The part of a spade, digging stick or similar tool that a digger's foot rests against and presses on when digging; an ear, a foot-rest.
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Level➦
Filled evenly to the top
a level tablespoon of the medicine.
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Step➦
A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
He improved step by step, or by steps.
The first step is to find a job.
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Level➦
To make horizontal, flat, or even
leveled the driveway with a roller.
leveled off the hedges with the clippers.
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Step➦
A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
The driver must have a clear view of the step in order to prevent accidents.
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Level➦
To place on the same rank; equalize.
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Step➦
The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.
One step is generally about three feet, but may be more or less.
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Level➦
To tear down (a building, for example); raze.
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Step➦
A small space or distance.
It is but a step.
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Level➦
To knock down, as with a blow; lay low
leveled the opponent with an uppercut.
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Step➦
A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
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Level➦
To aim along a horizontal plane
leveled the gun at the target.
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Step➦
A gait; manner of walking.
The approach of a man is often known by his step.
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Level➦
To direct emphatically or forcefully toward someone
leveled charges of dishonesty.
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Step➦
Proceeding; measure; action; act.
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Level➦
To measure the different elevations of (a tract of land) with a level.
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Step➦
(in the plural) A walk; passage.
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Level➦
To bring persons or things to an equal level; equalize.
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Step➦
(in the plural) A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
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Level➦
To aim a weapon horizontally.
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Step➦
(nautical) A framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specifically, a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.
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Level➦
(Informal) To be frank and open
advised the suspect to level with the authorities.
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Step➦
(machines) One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs.
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Level➦
Along a flat or even line or plane.
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Step➦
(machines) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
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Level➦
The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.
This table isn't quite level; see how this marble rolls off it?
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Step➦
(music) The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
Usage note: The word tone is often used as the name of this interval; but there is evident incongruity in using tone for indicating the interval between tones. As the word scale is derived from the Italian scala, a ladder, the intervals may well be called steps.
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Level➦
At the same height as some reference; constructed as level with.
We tried to hang the pictures so that the bottom of the frames were level with the dark line in the wallpaper.
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Step➦
(kinematics) A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
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Level➦
Unvaried in frequency.
His pulse has been level for 12 hours.
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Step➦
(programming) A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.
Printing from 0 to 9 with a step of 3 will display 0, 3, 6 and 9.
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Level➦
Unvaried in volume.
His voice has been unchanged. It has been level for 12 hours.
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Step➦
(colloquial) A stepchild.
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Level➦
Calm.
He kept a level head under stress.
He kept a level gaze.
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Step➦
(slang) A stepsibling.
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Level➦
In the same position or rank.
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Step➦
(intransitive) To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.
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Level➦
Straightforward; direct; clear.
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Step➦
(intransitive) To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
to step to one of the neighbors
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Level➦
Well balanced; even; just; steady; impartial.
a level head; a level understanding
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Step➦
(intransitive) To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
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Level➦
(phonetics) Of even tone; without rising or falling inflection; monotonic.
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Step➦
To dance.
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Level➦
(physics) Perpendicular to a gravitational force.
The earth's oceans remain level in relation to the pull of gravity.
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Step➦
To move mentally; to go in imagination.
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Level➦
A tool for finding whether a surface is level, or for creating a horizontal or vertical line of reference.
Hand me the level so I can tell if this is correctly installed.
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Step➦
(transitive) To set, as the foot.
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Level➦
A distance relative to a given reference elevation.
By the end of the day, we'd dug down to the level of the old basement floor.
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Step➦
To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
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Level➦
Degree or amount.
The sound level is much too high; this hurts my ears.
We've reached a new level of success.
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Step➦
To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.
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Level➦
Achievement or qualification.
She achieved a high level of distinction.
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Step➦
To walk; to go on foot; esp., to walk a little distance; as, to step to one of the neighbors.
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Level➦
(computer science) Distance from the root node of a tree structure.
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Step➦
To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
Home the swain retreats,His flock before him stepping to the fold.
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Level➦
(video games) One of several discrete segments of a game, generally increasing in difficulty and representing different locations in the game world.
It took me weeks to get to level seven.
Watch out for the next level; the bad guys there are really overpowered.
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Step➦
Fig.: To move mentally; to go in imagination.
They are stepping almost three thousand years back into the remotest antiquity.
Whosoever then first, after the troubling of the water, stepped in, was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
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Level➦
A numeric value that quantifies a character, ability, or item's experience and power.
My half-orc barbarian reached fifth level before he was squashed by a troll.
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Step➦
To set, as the foot.
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Level➦
A floor of a multi-storey building.
Take the elevator and get off at the promenade level.
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Step➦
To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
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Level➦
(British) An area of almost perfectly flat land.
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Step➦
An advance or movement made by one removal of the foot; a pace.
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Level➦
A school grade or year.
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Step➦
A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a round of a ladder.
The breadth of every single step or stair should be never less than one foot.
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Level➦
To adjust so as to make as flat or perpendicular to the ground as possible.
You can level the table by turning the pads that screw into the feet.
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Step➦
The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running; as, one step is generally about three feet, but may be more or less. Used also figuratively of any kind of progress; as, he improved step by step, or by steps.
To derive two or three general principles of motion from phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from those manifest principles, would be a very great step in philosophy.
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Level➦
To destroy by reducing to ground level; to raze.
The hurricane leveled the forest.
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Step➦
A small space or distance; as, it is but a step.
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Level➦
To progress to the next level.
I levelled after defeating the dragon.
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Step➦
A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
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Level➦
To aim or direct (a weapon, a stare, an accusation, etc).
He levelled an accusation of fraud at the directors.
The hunter levels the gun before taking a shot.
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Step➦
Gait; manner of walking; as, the approach of a man is often known by his step.
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Level➦
To direct or impose (a penalty, fine, etc) at or upon (someone).
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Step➦
Proceeding; measure; action; an act.
The reputation of a man depends on the first steps he makes in the world.
Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day,Live till to-morrow, will have passed away.
I have lately taken steps . . . to relieve the old gentleman's distresses.
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Level➦
(sports) To make the score of a game equal.
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Step➦
Walk; passage.
Conduct my steps to find the fatal tree.
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Level➦
(figurative) To bring to a common level or plane, in respect of rank, condition, character, privilege, etc.
to level all the ranks and conditions of men
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Step➦
A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
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Level➦
To adjust or adapt to a certain level.
to level remarks to the capacity of children
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Step➦
In general, a framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specif., a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.
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Level➦
To speak honestly and openly with.
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Step➦
One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs.
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Level➦
A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is everywhere parallel to the surface of still water; - this is the true level, and is a curve or surface in which all points are equally distant from the center of the earth, or rather would be so if the earth were an exact sphere.
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Step➦
The intervak between two contiguous degrees of the csale.
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Level➦
A horizontal line or plane; that is, a straight line or a plane which is tangent to a true level at a given point and hence parallel to the horizon at that point; - this is the apparent level at the given point.
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Step➦
A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
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Level➦
An approximately horizontal line or surface at a certain degree of altitude, or distance from the center of the earth; as, to climb from the level of the coast to the level of the plateau and then descend to the level of the valley or of the sea.
After draining of the level in Northamptonshire.
Shot from the deadly level of a gun.
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Step➦
At Eton College, England, a shallow step dividing the court into an inner and an outer portion.
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Level➦
Hence, figuratively, a certain position, rank, standard, degree, quality, character, etc., conceived of as in one of several planes of different elevation.
Providence, for the most part, sets us on a level.
Somebody there of his own level.
Be the fair level of thy actions laidAs temperance wills and prudence may persuade.
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Step➦
any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal;
the situation called for strong measures
the police took steps to reduce crime
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Level➦
A uniform or average height; a normal plane or altitude; a condition conformable to natural law or which will secure a level surface; as, moving fluids seek a level.
When merit shall find its level.
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Step➦
the distance covered by a step;
he stepped off ten paces from the old tree and began to dig
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Level➦
An instrument by which to find a horizontal line, or adjust something with reference to a horizontal line.
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Step➦
the act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down;
he walked with unsteady steps
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Level➦
A horizontal passage, drift, or adit, in a mine.
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Step➦
support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway;
he paused on the bottom step
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Level➦
Even; flat; having no part higher than another; having, or conforming to, the curvature which belongs to the undisturbed liquid parts of the earth's surface; as, a level field; level ground; the level surface of a pond or lake.
Ample spaces o'er the smoothAnd level pavement.
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Step➦
relative position in a graded series;
always a step behind
subtle gradations in color
keep in step with the fashions
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Level➦
Coinciding or parallel with the plane of the horizon; horizontal; as, the telescope is now level.
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Step➦
a short distance;
it's only a step to the drugstore
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Level➦
Even with anything else; of the same height; on the same line or plane; on the same footing; of equal importance; - followed by with, sometimes by to.
Young boys and girlsAre level now with men; the odds is gone.
Everything lies level to our wish.
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Step➦
the sound of a step of someone walking;
he heard footsteps on the porch
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Level➦
Straightforward; direct; clear; open.
A very plain and level account.
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Step➦
a musical interval of two semitones
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Level➦
Well balanced; even; just; steady; impartial; as, a level head; a level understanding. [Colloq.]
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Step➦
a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface;
the police made casts of the footprints in the soft earth outside the window
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Level➦
Of even tone; without rising or falling inflection.
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Step➦
a solid block joined to the beams in which the heel of a ship's mast or capstan is fixed
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Level➦
To make level; to make horizontal; to bring to the condition of a level line or surface; hence, to make flat or even; as, to level a road, a walk, or a garden.
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Step➦
a sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance;
he taught them the waltz step
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Level➦
To bring to a lower level; to overthrow; to topple down; to reduce to a flat surface; to lower.
And their proud structures level with the ground.
He levels mountains and he raises plains.
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Step➦
shift or move by taking a step;
step back
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Level➦
To bring to a horizontal position, as a gun; hence, to point in taking aim; to aim; to direct.
Bertram de Gordon, standing on the castle wall, leveled a quarrel out of a crossbow.
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Step➦
put down or press the foot, place the foot;
For fools rush in where angels fear to tread
step on the brake
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Level➦
Figuratively, to bring to a common level or plane, in respect of rank, condition, character, privilege, etc.; as, to level all the ranks and conditions of men.
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Step➦
cause (a computer) to execute a single command
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Level➦
To adjust or adapt to a certain level; as, to level remarks to the capacity of children.
For all his mind on honor fixed is,To which he levels all his purposes.
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Step➦
treat badly;
This boss abuses his workers
She is always stepping on others to get ahead
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Level➦
To be level; to be on a level with, or on an equality with, something; hence, to accord; to agree; to suit.
With such accommodation and besortAs levels with her breeding.
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Step➦
furnish with steps;
The architect wants to step the terrace
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Level➦
To aim a gun, spear, etc., horizontally; hence, to aim or point a weapon in direct line with the mark; fig., to direct the eye, mind, or effort, directly to an object; as, he leveled a gun at the bandit and fired.
The foeman may with as great aim level at the edge of a penknife.
The glory of God and the good of his church . . . ought to be the mark whereat we also level.
She leveled at our purposes.
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Step➦
move with one's feet in a specific manner;
step lively
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Level➦
a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality;
a moderate degree of intelligence
a high level of care is required
it is all a matter of degree
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Step➦
walk a short distance to a specified place or in a specified manner;
step over to the blackboard
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Level➦
a relative position or degree of value in a graded group;
lumber of the highest grade
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Step➦
place (a ship's mast) in its step
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Level➦
a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process;
a remarkable degree of frankness
at what stage are the social sciences?
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Step➦
measure (distances) by pacing;
step off ten yards
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Level➦
height above ground;
the water reached ankle level
the pictures were at the same level
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Step➦
move or proceed as if by steps into a new situation;
She stepped into a life of luxury
he won't step into his father's footsteps
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Level➦
indicator that establishes the horizontal when a bubble is centered in a tube of liquid
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a flat surface at right angles to a plumb line;
park the car on the level
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Level➦
structure consisting of a room or set of rooms comprising a single level of a multilevel building;
what level is the office on?
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Level➦
an abstract place usually conceived as having depth;
a good actor communicates on several levels
a simile has at least two layers of meaning
the mind functions on many strata simultaneously
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Level➦
aim at;
level criticism or charges at somebody
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Level➦
tear down so as to make flat with the ground;
The building was levelled
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Level➦
make level or straight;
level the ground
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Level➦
direct into a position for use;
point a gun
He charged his weapon at me
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Level➦
talk frankly with; lay it on the line;
I have to level with you
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Level➦
become level or even;
The ground levelled off
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Level➦
having a horizontal surface in which no part is higher or lower than another;
a flat desk
acres of level farmland
a plane surface
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Level➦
not showing abrupt variations;
spoke in a level voice
she gave him a level look
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being on a precise horizontal plane;
a billiard table must be level
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oriented at right angles to the plumb;
the picture is level
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of the score in a contest;
the score is tied
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