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Definition: LEVELLING |
LEVELLING1. Of Level |
Date "LEVELLING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Building & Civil Engineering | Operation which consists in shaping and smoothing the surface of earthworks, including dirt roads, by loosening and redistributing the superficial material. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The measuring of the height of land in relation to a given datum. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| The operation of forming a surface by the use of screeds. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Industry | Migration leading to uniform distribution of dye in a dyed material. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: LEVELLING |
| Specialty definitions using "LEVELLING": gallo cristo ♦ hypsometric leveling, hypsometric levelling ♦ Levellers ♦ tacheometry, tachymetry, thermometric leveling, thermometric levelling, topographical levelling, trigonometrical levelling ♦ Whiteboys. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Laser-leveled land is irrigated in Southern California's Imperial Valley. Laser-leveling is done by earth movers equipped with laser receiving equipment. Levelling is done to optimally manage the flow of irrigation water across a field.Credit: Tim McCabe. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Samuel Johnson | Your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. |
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Communist Manifesto | 1848 | It inculcated universal asceticism and social levelling in its crudest form. (reference) |
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| "LEVELLING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "LEVELLING" is used about 125 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 80% | 100 | 32,668 |
| Noun (singular) | 12% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 7.2% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.8% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 125 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "LEVELLING": hypsometric levelling ♦ levelling instrument ♦ levelling rod ♦ levelling staff ♦ thermometric levelling ♦ topographical levelling ♦ trigonometrical levelling. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "LEVELLING": levelling-off, levelling-out, levelling-up. | |
Ending with "LEVELLING": self-levelling. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
foot levelling | 7 |
book levelling | 4 |
air hot levelling solder | 4 |
compound floor levelling | 4 |
concrete floor levelling | 3 |
levelling | 3 |
compound levelling | 3 |
levelling resource | 3 |
ground levelling | 3 |
floor levelling | 3 |
cement levelling self | 3 |
levelling self suspension | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "LEVELLING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | nivelim (bringing to the same level, leveling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 成水平 (Leveled, leveling, Levelled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | slæbning (scrubbing the soil surface), profilering (grading, leveling, machine grading, molding, moulding, regulating), planering (flattening, formation, grading, leveling, machine grading, planing, planishing, regulating, shaping, spreading, the removal of a defined thickness of bituminous materials using a cutting blade), nivellering (leveling, topographical levelling), niveauregulering, finindstilling (exact fit, fine tuning, fitting, focusing, focussing, precision fitting), egalisere, agerslæbning (scrubbing the soil surface), afglatning (grading, leveling, machine grading, regulating). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | waterpassing (boning, leveling), slepen (drag, hauling, scrubbing the soil surface, tow, towing), planeren (grading, leveling, machine grading, regulating), nivellering (boning), nivelleren (boning, grading, level, leveling, machine grading, regulating), grondwerken, gelijkmaken (facing, grading, leveling, machine grading, regulating, trimming), egaliseren (even, grading, land smoothing, level, leveling, machine grading, regulating, scraping, surfacing), afvlakken (blindage, blinding, flattening, level down, levelling down high spots, make flush, planning, smooth, smoothing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tasoitus (compensation, odds, scrubbing the soil surface, sleeking, slicking, smoothing, trimming). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | terrassement en gradins, réglage, pouvoir nivelant (leveling), nivellement (leveling), nivellage, nivelance (leveling), nivelage, finissage la règle, arasement (levelling down high spots), égalisation. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Einpegelung, abflachend. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | στρώσιμο (scrubbing the soil surface), στάθμιση (grading, leveling, machine grading, regulating, weight, weighting), ισοστάθμιση (equalisation, equalization), ισοπέδωσις εδαφών (grading, leveling, machine grading, regulating), ισοπέδωση (acuminate, flattening, grading, grinding, land smoothing, leveling, machine grading, planing, regulating, rolling, scraping, scrubbing the soil surface, sharpen, surface grinding, surfacing, the removal of a defined thickness of bituminous materials using a cutting blade, to grind tools, whet 3)grounding), χωροστάθμιση (altimetry, leveling), εξομάλυνση επιφανείας (levelling down high spots, planning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | פלוס (grading, plus, straightening out), אזון (balancing, equilibration, equilibrium, equipoise, evenness, poise), "פלס". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | livellamento (clamping, current from external sources, equalization, excavation, grading, leveling, levelling down high spots, machine grading, planning, regulating, scrubbing the soil surface, stray currents). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 수평하게 함 (leveling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | evellinglay uniformização (standardization), terraplanagem (grading, leveling, machine grading, regulating), pessoa que nivela (levelheaded), nivelamento (flatness, grading, leveling, levelling down high spots, machine grading, planning, regulating, scrubbing the soil surface), nivelaçao, igualização (equalisation, equalization), de nivelamento (leveling), aplainamento (grading, leveling, long planing, machine grading, planing, regulating). (various references) ochire (eye, glance, insight, look, regard, sight, view), nivelment (surveying), nivelare (flatting), egalizator (equalizing), analogie (analogy, likeness, parallel, parallelism, parity, similarity). (various references) eilgheadh (levelling of a field for sowing). (various references) perfilado (finishing, grading, leveling, machine grading, regulating, regulation, reshaping, shaping), nivelando (scrubbing the soil surface), nivelación (grading, leveling, levelling down high spots, machine grading, planning, regulating), igualador del color, enrase (levelling down high spots, planning), arrasamiento (annihilation, desolation, leveling, obliteration), allanando (scrubbing the soil surface). (various references) planering (arrangement, design, layout, planishing, planning), avvägning (finishing, grading, leveling, regulation, shaping). (various references) вирівнювання (leveling, line up, smoothing). (various references) sự xoá bỏ mọi sự chênh lệch xã hội, sự san bằng sự l m cho ngang nhau, sự l m cho bình đẳng, sự l m bằng phẳng. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "LEVELLING": unlevelling. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-l-l-l-n-v" | |
-1 letter: leveling. | |
-3 letters: nellie. | |
-4 letters: genie, given, ingle, level, levin, liege, lieve, liven, nieve, vegie, venge. | |
-5 letters: even, evil, gene, gien, gill, give, glee, glen, lien, line, ling, live, neve, nevi, nill, veil, vein, vile, vill, vine. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-i-l-l-l-n-v" | |
+2 letters: unlevelling. | |
+4 letters: evangelically. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 45 56 45 4C 4C 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. . ...- . .-.. .-.. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01000101 01010110 01000101 01001100 01001100 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L E V E L L I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0045 0056 0045 004C 004C 0049 004E 0047 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)463956394646434841 |
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