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level
English
Etymology
From Middle English level, from Old French livel, liveau m, later nivel, niveau, from Latin libella f (“a balance, a level”), diminutive of libra f (“a balance, a level”); see libra, librate.
The verb is from Middle English levelen, from the noun.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /?l?v.?l/
- Rhymes: -?v?l
- Hyphenation: lev?el
Adjective
level (comparative leveler or leveller, superlative levelest or levellest)
- The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.
- At the same height as some reference; constructed as level with.
- Unvaried in frequency.
- Unvaried in volume.
- Calm.
- In the same position or rank.
- Straightforward; direct; clear.
- 1873, Matthew Arnold, Literature and Dogma
- a very plain and level account
- 1873, Matthew Arnold, Literature and Dogma
- Well balanced; even; just; steady; impartial.
- (phonetics) Of even tone; without rising or falling inflection; monotonic.
- 1891, Henry Sweet, A History of English Sounds from the Earliest Period
- Intonation or tone is either level, rising, or falling, marked respectively
- 1891, Henry Sweet, A History of English Sounds from the Earliest Period
- (physics) Perpendicular to a gravitational force.
Antonyms
- tilted
- unbalanced
- uneven
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Noun
level (countable and uncountable, plural levels)
- A tool for finding whether a surface is level, or for creating a horizontal or vertical line of reference.
- A distance relative to a given reference elevation.
- Degree or amount.
- Achievement or qualification.
- (computer science) Distance from the root node of a tree structure.
- (video games) One of several discrete segments of a game, generally increasing in difficulty and representing different locations in the game world.
- Synonyms: stage, zone, world
- (role-playing games, video games) A numeric value that quantifies a character, ability, or item's experience and power.
- A floor of a multi-storey building.
- (Britain) An area of almost perfectly flat land.
- 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:
- The troops grow mutinous—the revenue fails—
There’s something rotten in us—for the level
Of the State slopes, its very bases topple,
The boldest turn their backs upon themselves!
- The troops grow mutinous—the revenue fails—
- 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:
- (Singapore, education) A school grade or year.
Hyponyms
Related terms
Descendants
- ? German: Level
- ? Irish: leibhéal
- ? Japanese: ??? (reberu)
Translations
See also
- Wikipedia article on newsgroup posting style
Verb
level (third-person singular simple present levels, present participle (US) leveling or levelling, simple past and past participle (US) leveled or levelled)
- To adjust so as to make as flat or perpendicular to the ground as possible.
- To destroy by reducing to ground level; to raze.
- He levels mountains and he raises plains.
- (role-playing games, video games) To progress to the next level.
- To aim or direct (a weapon, a stare, an accusation, etc).
- 1592, John Stow, The Annales of England
- Bertram de Gordon, standing on the castle wall, levelled a quarrel out of a crossbow.
- 1592, John Stow, The Annales of England
- To direct or impose (a penalty, fine, etc) at or upon (someone).
- 1809, William Ross (Jr.), Abridgement of the laws of Scotland relating to hunting [etc], page 60:
- If the right of killing salmon belong exclusively to the King, and consequently to his donatories, why has not the Legislature secured the right by levelling penalties against such as should encroach upon it [...] ?
- 1978, Parliamentary Debates of the New Zealand House of Representatives, page 4955:
- How can the Minister reconcile the first statement with the clause, when he is in fact levelling punishment at the woman and not at the errant father [...] ?
- 1995, The Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) of the [Great British] House of Lords:
- There is no purpose in levelling fines because they would be merely paid from the £1.8 billion which the BBC collects.
- 2007, Mary Jacoby, EU investigators endorse charges against Intel, Wall Street Journal Europe, 17 January, page 32, column 5:
- Ultimately, Ms. Kroes [European Union Antitrust Commissioner] could level a fine and order Intel to change its business practices.
- 1809, William Ross (Jr.), Abridgement of the laws of Scotland relating to hunting [etc], page 60:
- (sports) To make the score of a game equal.
- (figuratively) To bring to a common level or plane, in respect of rank, condition, character, privilege, etc.
- To adjust or adapt to a certain level.
- For all his mind on honour fixed is, / To which he levels all his purposes.
- (usually with "with") To speak honestly and openly with.
Derived terms
Translations
References
- level on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Further reading
- level in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- level in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Indonesian
Etymology
From English level, from Middle English level, from Old French livel, liveau m, later nivel, niveau, from Latin libella f (“a balance, a level”), diminutive of libra f (“a balance, a level”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?l?v?l]
- Hyphenation: lè?vêl
Noun
level (first-person possessive levelku, second-person possessive levelmu, third-person possessive levelnya)
- (colloquial) level.
- Synonyms: tingkatan, tataran, lapisan
Further reading
- “level” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
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bed
English
Etymology
From Middle English bed, bedde, from Old English bedd (“bed, couch, resting-place; garden-bed, plot”), from Proto-Germanic *badj? (“plot, grave, resting-place, bed”), perhaps (if originally "dug sleeping-place") from Proto-Indo-European *b?ed?- (“to dig”). Cognate with Scots bed, bede (“bed”), North Frisian baad, beed (“bed”), West Frisian bêd (“bed”), Low German Bedd, Dutch bed (“bed”), German Bett (“bed”), Danish bed, Swedish bädd (“bed”), Icelandic beður (“bed”), and (through Proto-Indo-European, if the above etymology is correct) with Ancient Greek ??????? (bothuros, “pit”), Latin fossa (“ditch”), Latvian bedre (“hole”), Welsh bedd (“grave”), Breton bez (“grave”); and probably also Russian ?????? (bodat?, “to butt, to gore”).
The traditional etymology as a derivation from the Proto-Indo-European verb for 'to dig' has been doubted, arguing that there are (allegedly) few, if any, cultures known to dig out beds, rather than to build "pads". However, what the Germanic word originally referred to is not known with precision, and it notably has the additional meaning "flower-bed, plot", which is preserved in English and several other modern Germanic languages, but present in older stages as well. Additionally, the term may have originally been used in the sense of a "burial plot" for laying those who were asleep in death, and from there extended also to symbolise a place where one slept in general (In Modern German, two separate words exist, Bett being the normal term, the rare variant Beet having been adopted for “flower-bed”). Perhaps the word originally referred to dug sleeping-places of animals, compare (with the inverse semantic development) lair from Old English le?er (“couch, bed”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /b?d/
- (AAVE, some speakers) IPA(key): [be?]
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /bed/
- Rhymes: -?d
Noun
bed (plural beds)
- A piece of furniture, usually flat and soft, on which to rest or sleep.
- A prepared spot in which to spend the night.
- (usually after a preposition) One's place of sleep or rest.
- (uncountable, usually after a preposition) Sleep; rest; getting to sleep.
- (uncountable, usually after a preposition) The time for going to sleep or resting in bed; bedtime.
- (uncountable) Time spent in a bed.
- (figuratively) Marriage.
- George, the eldest son of his second bed.
- (figuratively, uncountable) Sexual activity.
- A prepared spot in which to spend the night.
- A place, or flat surface or layer, on which something else rests or is laid.
- The bottom of a body of water, such as an ocean, sea, lake, or river. [from later 16thc.]
- An area where a large number of oysters, mussels, other sessile shellfish, or a large amount of seaweed is found.
- 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, Chapter 18, [1]
- I knew that there were kelp beds and reefs which could rip the bottoms from boats down in Skedans Bay.
- 1941, Emily Carr, Klee Wyck, Chapter 18, [1]
- A garden plot.
- Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
- A foundation or supporting surface formed of a fluid.
- The superficial earthwork, or ballast, of a railroad.
- The platform of a truck, trailer, railcar, or other vehicle that supports the load to be hauled.
- Synonym: tray
- A shaped piece of timber to hold a cask clear of a ship’s floor; a pallet.
- (printing, dated) The flat part of the press, on which the form is laid.
- (computing) The flat surface of a scanner on which a document is placed to be scanned.
- A piece of music, normally instrumental, over which a radio DJ talks.
- (darts) Any of the sections of a dartboard with a point value, delimited by a wire.
- (trampoline) The taut surface of a trampoline.
- The bottom of a body of water, such as an ocean, sea, lake, or river. [from later 16thc.]
- (heading) A layer or surface.
- A deposit of ore, coal, etc.
- (geology) The smallest division of a geologic formation or stratigraphic rock series marked by well-defined divisional planes (bedding planes) separating it from layers above and below.
- Synonyms: layer, stratum
- (masonry) The horizontal surface of a building stone.
- (masonry) The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
- (masonry) A course of stone or brick in a wall.
Usage notes
Sense 1. To prepare a bed is usually to "make" the bed, or (US, Southern) to "spread" the bed, the verb spread probably having been developed from bedspread.Like many nouns denoting places where people spend time, bed requires no article after certain prepositions: hence in bed (“lying in a bed”), go to bed (“get into a bed”), and so on. The forms in a bed, etc. do exist, but tend to imply mere presence in the bed, without it being for the purpose of sleep.
See also Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take
Derived terms
Descendants
- Chichewa: bedi
- Chuukese: pet
- Japanese: ??? (beddo)
Translations
See bed/translations § Noun.
Verb
bed (third-person singular simple present beds, present participle bedding, simple past and past participle bedded)
- Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping.
- (intransitive) To go to bed.
- (transitive) To place in a bed.
- For she was not only publicly contracted, but stated as a bride, and solemnly bedded, and after she was laid, there came in Maximilian's ambassador with letters of procuration
- To put oneself to sleep. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (transitive) To furnish with a bed or bedding.
- (transitive, intransitive) To have sexual intercourse with. [from early 14th c.]
- Synonyms: coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
- 1730, William Forbes, The Institutes of the Law of Scotland (page 121)
- And he who lies with another Man's Wife after she is married, even before her Husband had bedded with her, is guilty of Adultery, […]
- Senses relating to a bed as a place or layer on which something else rests or is laid.
- (transitive) To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed.
- 1810/1835, William Wordsworth, Guide to the Lakes
- Among all chains or clusters of mountains where large bodies of still water are bedded.
- 1810/1835, William Wordsworth, Guide to the Lakes
- (transitive) To set in a soft matrix, as paving stones in sand, or tiles in cement.
- (transitive) To set out (plants) in a garden bed.
- (transitive) To dress or prepare the surface of (stone) so it can serve as a bed.
- (transitive) To lay flat; to lay in order; to place in a horizontal or recumbent position.
- To settle, as machinery.
- (transitive) To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or enclosed; to embed.
Derived terms
- bed down
- embed
Translations
See bed/translations § Verb.
Further reading
- bed on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- BDE, DBE, DEB, Deb, Deb., EBD, Edb., deb
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch bed, from Middle Dutch bedde, from Old Dutch bedde, from Proto-Germanic *badj?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?t/
Noun
bed (plural beddens, diminutive bedjie)
- bed
- Synonym: kooi
Breton
Alternative forms
- béd (Skolveurieg)
Etymology
From Proto-Brythonic *b?d, from Proto-Celtic *bitus. Cognates include Welsh byd and Cornish bys.
Noun
bed m (plural bedoù)
- world
- universe
Mutation
References
- Ian Press (1986) A grammar of modern Breton, Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, ?ISBN, page 322
Danish
Etymology 1
From German Beet (“bed for plants”), originally the same word as Bett (“bed for sleeping”), from Proto-Germanic *badj?, cognate with English bed and Swedish bädd.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?b?eð]
Noun
bed n (singular definite bedet, plural indefinite bede)
- bed (a garden plot)
Inflection
Etymology 2
From Old Norse beit f (“pasturage”), Old Norse beita f (“bait”), from Proto-Germanic *bait? (“food, bait”), cognate with German Beize (“mordant”) (whence Danish bejdse).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?b?e?ð], [?b?eð?]
Noun
bed (definitive plural bedene)
- (obsolete) pasturage
- only in the expression: gå nogen i bedene "poach on someone's preserves"
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the main entry.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?b?e?ð], [?b?eð?]
Verb
bed
- past tense of bide
Etymology 4
See the etymology of the main entry.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?b?e?], (solemnly) IPA(key): [?b?e?ð], [?b?eð?]
Verb
bed
- imperative of bede
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch bedde, from Old Dutch bedde, from Proto-Germanic *badj?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?t/
- Hyphenation: bed
- Rhymes: -?t
Noun
bed n (plural bedden, diminutive bedje n)
- bed (furniture for sleeping)
- (garden, agriculture) patch, bed
- layer, often a substratum
- bed of a body of water
- 1950, Willy van der Heide, Drie jongens op een onbewoond eiland, Stenvert.
- Op een gegeven ogenblik stieten ze op een uitgedroogde beekbedding; het bed van de beek was naakte lava.
- 1950, Willy van der Heide, Drie jongens op een onbewoond eiland, Stenvert.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: bed
Kriol
Etymology 1
From English bird.
Noun
bed
- bird
Etymology 2
From English bed.
Noun
bed
- bed
Northern Kurdish
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?d
Adjective
bed
- bad
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From German Beet
Noun
bed n (definite singular bedet, indefinite plural bed, definite plural beda or bedene)
- (horticulture) a bed (for plants)
Derived terms
- blomsterbed
Etymology 2
Verb
bed
- imperative of bede
References
- “bed” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From German Beet.
Noun
bed n (definite singular bedet, indefinite plural bed, definite plural beda)
- (horticulture) a bed (for plants)
Derived terms
- blomsterbed
Etymology 2
Verb
bed
- present tense of beda
- imperative of beda
Etymology 3
From Old Norse beðr.
Noun
bed m (definite singular beden, indefinite plural bedar, definite plural bedane)
- form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by bedd
References
- “bed” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bed/
Noun
bed n
- Alternative form of bedd
Old Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b?eð/
Etymology 1
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
·bed
- third-person singular past subjunctive of at·tá
Alternative forms
- ·beth
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
bed
- inflection of is:
- third-person singular past subjunctive
- third-person singular/second-person plural imperative
- third-person singular conditional relative
Alternative forms
- bad (3 sg. past subj.; 3 sg. and 2 pl. imperative)
Mutation
Old Saxon
Alternative forms
- beddi
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *badj? (“dug sleeping-place”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ed?- (“to dig”). Cognate with Old Frisian bed, Old English bedd, Dutch bed, Old High German betti, Old Norse beðr, Gothic ???????????????? (badi). The Indo-European root is also the source of Ancient Greek ??????? (bothuros, “pit”), Latin fossa (“ditch”), Latvian bedre (“hole”), Welsh bedd, Breton bez (“grave”).
Noun
bed n
- bed
- (Heliand, verse 2309)
Declension
Descendants
- Middle Low German: bedde
- Low German: Bett
- Dutch Low Saxon: bedde
- German Low German: Bedd
- Plautdietsch: Bad, Bed
- ? Icelandic: beddi
- Low German: Bett
Swedish
Verb
bed (contracted be)
- imperative of bedja.
Volapük
Etymology
Borrowed from English bed and German Bett.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bed/
Noun
bed (nominative plural beds)
- bed
Declension
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