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LEVEL DOWN

Specialty Definition: LEVEL DOWN

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Literature

Level Down To bring society, taxes, wages, etc., to an equality by reducing all to the lowest standard. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: LEVEL DOWN

AuthorQuotation

Samuel Johnson

Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: LEVEL DOWN

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Business

The navy is interested in full-range combat simulation training and plans to procure war game simulators that are capable of simulating combat situations and coordinating all the armed forces, from the strategic level down to the operational and tactical levels. (references)

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Modern Translation: LEVEL DOWN

Language Translations for "LEVEL DOWN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Dutch

  

afvlakken (blindage, blinding, flattening, levelling, levelling down high spots, make flush, planning, smooth, smoothing). (various references)

   

French

  

araser. (various references)

   

German

  

planieren (bulldoze, flatten, level, level off, level out, planish, to flatten), nach unten angleichen, erodieren (erode), einebnen (level, level off, level out, plane), auf ein tiefes niveau herabsetzen, auf ein tiefes niveau bringen, abtragen (abrade, bring away, carry away, carry off, clear away, clear off, dismantle, erode, outwear, pay off, remove, to carry off, to remove, wear, wear away, wear out). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

lesimít (even, sleek, smarm, to bur, to burr, to level down, to press down, to scrape, to sleek, to slick down, to smarm, to smooth). (various references)

   

Manx

  

injillaghey (change down, cheap, cheap morally, condescend, cut, cut down, debase, defer, degradation, degrade, demote, demotion, depreciate, depreciation, depress, depression, die down, humiliate, humiliation, reduce, reduction, relegate, sink, step down, subdue, subject, submit, subordinate, subordination, turn down, vulgarization, vulgarize). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

evellay ownday

   

Romanian

  

coborî nivelul. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

rebaja a mismo nivel, nivelar por abajo. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

sänka till en lägre nivå. (various references)

   

Thai

  

ทำให้ล"ลงมาอยู่ระ"ับเ"ียวกันหรือเท่ากัน. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

düşürerek eşitlemek, aynı seviyeye indirmek. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

опустити. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: LEVEL DOWN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-l-l-n-o-v-w"

-2 letters: novelle.

-3 letters: elevon, wedeln, welled.

-4 letters: delve, devel, devon, donee, doven, dowel, dwell, endow, leone, level, loden, loved, lowed, newel, novel, olden, owned, voled, vowed, vowel, wedel, woven.

-5 letters: dele, dell, dene, dole, doll, done, dove, down, enol, enow, even, lend, leno, levo, lewd, lode, lone, love, lowe, lown, need, neve, node, noel, oven.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Quotations: Familiar
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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