different between level vs regular

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)

1. The same height at all places; parallel to a flat ground.
2. At the same height as some reference; constructed as level with.

3. Unvaried in frequency.

4. Unvaried in volume.

5. Calm.

6. In the same position or rank.
7. Straightforward; direct; clear.
   • 1873, Matthew Arnold, Literature and Dogma

     a very plain and level account

8. Well balanced; even; just; steady; impartial.
9. (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

10. (physics) Perpendicular to a gravitational force.

Antonyms

• tilted
• unbalanced
• uneven

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Translations

Noun

level (countable and uncountable, plural levels)

1. A tool for finding whether a surface is level, or for creating a horizontal or vertical line of reference.

2. A distance relative to a given reference elevation.

3. Degree or amount.

4. Achievement or qualification.

5. (computer science) Distance from the root node of a tree structure.
6. (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

7. (role-playing games, video games) A numeric value that quantifies a character, ability, or item's experience and power.

8. A floor of a multi-storey building.

9. (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!

10. (Singapore, education) A school grade or year.

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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)

1. To adjust so as to make as flat or perpendicular to the ground as possible.
2. To destroy by reducing to ground level; to raze.

   • He levels mountains and he raises plains.

3. (role-playing games, video games) To progress to the next level.

4. 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.
5. 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.

6. (sports) To make the score of a game equal.
7. (figuratively) To bring to a common level or plane, in respect of rank, condition, character, privilege, etc.

8. To adjust or adapt to a certain level.

   • For all his mind on honour fixed is, / To which he levels all his purposes.

9. (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)

1. (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.

English

Etymology

From Middle English reguler, from Anglo-Norman reguler, Middle French reguler, regulier, and their source, Latin r?gul?ris (“continuing rules for guidance”), from r?gula (“rule”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *reg- (“move in a straight line”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: re?gyo?ol?r IPA^(key): /????j?l?/
• (US) enPR: re?gy?l?r, re?gy?l?r, IPA^(key): /????j?l?/, /????l??/, [????j??l?], [????l??]
• Rhymes: -??j?l?(?), -??j?l?(?), -???l?(?)
• (US) Hyphenation: reg?u?lar

Adjective

regular (comparative more regular, superlative most regular)

1. (Christianity) Bound by religious rule; belonging to a monastic or religious order (often as opposed to secular). [from 14th c.]
2. Having a constant pattern; showing evenness of form or appearance. [from 15th c.]

   Synonyms: equable, uniform, unvarying; see also Thesaurus:steady

   Antonyms: chaotic, irregular; see also Thesaurus:unsteady

3. (geometry, of a polygon) Both equilateral and equiangular; having all sides of the same length, and all (corresponding) angles of the same size [from 16th c.]
4. (geometry, of a polyhedron) Whose faces are all congruent regular polygons, equally inclined to each other.
5. Demonstrating a consistent set of rules; showing order, evenness of operation or occurrence. [from 16th c.]

   Synonyms: in order, ruly, tidy; see also Thesaurus:orderly

   Antonyms: chaotic, tumultuous; see also Thesaurus:disorderly
6. (astronomy) Of a moon or other satellite: following a relatively close and prograde orbit with little inclination or eccentricity.
7. (now rare) Well-behaved, orderly; restrained (of a lifestyle etc.). [from 16th c.]

   Synonyms: decent, seemly, well-mannered

   Antonyms: degenerate, irregular

8. Happening at constant (especially short) intervals. [from 17th c.]

   Synonyms: cyclical, frequent; see also Thesaurus:periodic

   Antonyms: irregular, noncyclic

9. (grammar, of a verb, plural, etc) Following a set or common pattern; according to the normal rules of a given language. [from 17th c.]

   Synonym: (verbs) weak

   Antonyms: irregular, (verbs) strong

10. (chiefly US) Having the expected characteristics or appearances; normal, ordinary, standard. [from 17th c.]

    Synonyms: basic, common, unremarkable; see also Thesaurus:normal, Thesaurus:common

    Antonyms: irregular, outlandish, weird; see also Thesaurus:strange
11. (chiefly military) Permanently organised; being part of a set professional body of troops. [from 17th c.]

    Antonym: irregular

12. Having bowel movements or menstrual periods at constant intervals in the expected way. [from 18th c.]
13. (colloquial) Exemplary; excellent example of; utter, downright. [from 18th c.]

    Synonyms: absolute, thorough, unalloyed; see also Thesaurus:total
14. (botany, zoology) Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape.

15. (crystallography) Isometric.
16. (snowboarding) Riding with the left foot forward.

    Antonym: goofy

17. (mathematical analysis, not comparable, of a Borel measure) Such that every set in its domain is both outer regular and inner regular.

Antonyms

• irregular
• non-regular, nonregular

Coordinate terms

• (snowboarding): switch

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Translations

Adverb

regular (not comparable)

1. (archaic, dialect, nonstandard) Regularly, on a regular basis.

Noun

regular (plural regulars)

1. A member of the British Army (as opposed to a member of the Territorial Army or Reserve).
2. A frequent, routine visitor to an establishment.

3. A frequent customer, client or business partner.

4. (Canada) A coffee with one cream and one sugar.
5. Anything that is normal or standard.
   • 2011, Jamie MacLennan, ZhaoHui Tang, Bogdan Crivat, Data Mining with Microsoft SQL Server 2008

     You separate the marbles by color until you have four groups, but then you notice that some of the marbles are regulars, some are shooters, and some are peewees.

6. A member of a religious order who has taken the three ordinary vows.
7. A number for each year, giving, added to the concurrents, the number of the day of the week on which the Paschal full moon falls.
8. A fixed number for each month serving to ascertain the day of the week, or the age of the moon, on the first day of any month.

Synonyms

• (routine visitor): frequenter, habitué, patron, usual suspects

Antonyms

• non-regular, nonregular

Translations

References

• regular in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• regular in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Asturian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Late Latin r?gul?ris.

Adjective

regular (epicene, plural regulares)

1. regular
2. fine, OK, average

Related terms

• regularidá

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin r?gul?re, present active infinitive of r?gul?. Compare the doublet reglar, borrowed earlier from the same source.

Verb

regular (first-person singular indicative present regulo, past participle reguláu)

1. to regulate

Conjugation

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /r?.?u?la/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /re.?u?la?/
• Rhymes: -a(?)

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Late Latin r?gul?ris.

Adjective

regular (masculine and feminine plural regulars)

1. regular (having a constant pattern)

   Antonym: irregular

2. normal, average
3. (geometry) regular (both equilateral and equiangular)

   Antonym: irregular

Derived terms

• regularitat
• regularitzar
• regularment

Related terms

• irregular
• regla

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin r?gul?re, present active infinitive of r?gul?.

Verb

regular (first-person singular present regulo, past participle regulat)

1. (transitive) to regulate

Conjugation

Derived terms

• regulador

Related terms

• regulació

Further reading

• “regular” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “regular” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “regular” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “regular” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /???u?la?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?e?u?la(?)/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Late Latin r?gul?ris.

Adjective

regular m or f (plural regulares, comparable)

1. regular
2. average

Declension

Derived terms

• irregular
• regularmente

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin r?gul?. Compare the doublet regrar, borrowed earlier from the same source.

Verb

regular (first-person singular present indicative regulo, past participle regulado)

1. to regulate
2. to tune (an engine)
3. to set (a watch, clock)

Conjugation

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /re?u?la?/, [re.??u?la?]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Late Latin r?gul?ris.

Adjective

regular (plural regulares)

1. regular, steady, even
2. fair, fairly good, average
3. common, ordinary, middling, so-so
4. (grammar) regular

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin r?gul?re, present active infinitive of r?gul?.

Verb

regular (first-person singular present regulo, first-person singular preterite regulé, past participle regulado)

1. to regulate
2. to control
3. to adjust
4. to put in order

Conjugation

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