On the level

Definition

level / 'levl / adj ၁။ ျပန္႔ျပဴးေသာ။ စတုတ္ တိုက္ထားသကဲ့သို႔ မ်က္ႏွာျပင္ညီညာေသာ။ pitch a tent on level ground ❍ Add one level tablespoon of sugar (ie enough to fill the spoon exactly and not in a raised heap). ၂။ တစ္ညီတည္း ျဖစ္ေသာ။ သေရက်ေသာ။ The two pictures aren’t quite level — the one on the left is higher than the other. ❍ France took an early lead but Wales soon drew level (ie achieved the same score). ၃။ တည္ၿငိမ္ေသာ။ a level stare ❍ a calm, level voice. n ၁။ [C] အဆင့္။ ေရခ်ိန္။ အား။ လက္ရည္။ the level of alcohol in the blood ❍ a high level of achievement ❍ noise/nitrate/unemployment levels ❍ Technically, both players are on a level (ie of the same standard). ၂။ [U] အဆင့္။ အတန္း။ discussions at district/national level ❍ an intermediate-level course ❍ high-/low-level negotiations ❍ I could use threats too, but I refuse to sink to your level (ie behave as badly as you). See also A LEVEL ၃။ [C] အျမင့္။ ေစာက္။ အနက္။ birds flying just above the water level ❍ The cables are buried one metre below ground level. ❍ The water rose to roof level. ❍ The controls are at eye-level. See also SEA LEVEL ၄။ [C] အဆင့္။ အထပ္။ a multi-level parking lot. အထပ္မ်ားစြာရိွေသာ ယာဥ္ရပ္စခန္း။ ❍ Archaeologists found pottery in the lowest level of the site. ၅။ [C] = SPIRIT-LEVEL v ( -ll-; US -l- ) ၁။ ညိႇသည္။ level social differences ❍ She needs to win this point to level the score. ၂။ ညိႇသည္။ The ground should be levelled before you plant a lawn. ၃။ ေျပာင္တလင္းခါေအာင္ ၿဖိဳဖ်က္သည္။ a town levelled by an earthquake. ၄။ ~ sth (at sb) (ေသနတ္ျဖင့္) ခ်ိန္ရြယ္သည္။ The hostage had a pistol levelled at his head. ❏ level sth against/at sb [ PHRV ] စြပ္စြဲသည္။ စြဲခ်က္ တင္သည္။ level criticism at the council ❍ accusations levelled against the directors. ❏ level crossing ( Brit ) ( US grade crossing ) n ရထားလမ္းကူး။ Compare CROSSING ၁ ❏ level-headed adj ေအးေဆးတည္ၿငိမ္ေသာ။ ဆင္ျခင္တံု တရားရိွေသာ။ ပ်ာယာမခတ္ေသာ။ ❏ leveller ( US leveler) / 'levǝlǝ(r) / n အားလံုးကို တစ္ေျပးညီ ညိႇေပးသူ၊ အရာ။ Death is the great leveller. ❏ level off/out [ PHRV ] (အတက္အဆင္းမရိွ) တန္းသြားသည္။ The plane levelled out at 20000 feet. ❏ level pegging [ IDM ] ရင္ေပါင္တန္း။ သေရ။ The contestants were level pegging after round 3. ❏ level with sb [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ပြင့္ပြင့္လင္းလင္း ေျပာ သည္။ ❏ on the level [ IDM ] ( infml ) အမွန္အတိုင္း။ ႐ိုး႐ိုးသားသား။ Are you sure this deal is on the level?

Examples

1. Unemployment is now at its lowest level for 15 years.
2. [level of] : The level of inflation has continued to rise.
3. [a high/low level] : There is a very high level of crime in this area.
4. [at a level] : Interest rates will probably remain at the same level for a few more months.
5. Check the level of fluid in the tank.
6. Be careful not to let the oil level drop too far.
7. The river is at its highest level for several years.
8. A simple blood test is used to measure the level of alcohol in the blood.
9. The study found quite high levels of mercury in some drinking water.
10. [level of] : I fully understand the level of anger felt by the victims’ families.
11. Many people have to cope with very high levels of stress at work.
12. He went on to study maths at university level.
13. This will be her first opportunity to play at international level.
14. This is an excellent book for advanced level students.
15. He came into the firm at junior management level.
16. There will be no pay increases for staff at secretarial level and below.
17. These social changes will affect everyone
18. at all levels of society.
19. Decisions should be taken at local
20. not national
21. level.
22. By the time children reach secondary school level
23. A garage at basement level
24. Raise both arms to shoulder level.
25. The story can be understood on several different levels.