Word Meanings - LEVELING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The art or operation of using a leveling instrument for finding a horizontal line, for ascertaining the differences of level between different points of the earth's surface included in a survey, for establishing grades, etc., as in finding

Additional info about word: LEVELING

The art or operation of using a leveling instrument for finding a horizontal line, for ascertaining the differences of level between different points of the earth's surface included in a survey, for establishing grades, etc., as in finding the descent of a river, or locating a line of railroad. Leveling instrument. See Surveyor's level, under Level, n. -- Leveling staff, a graduated rod or staff used in connection with a leveling instrument for measuring differences of level between points. (more info) 1. The act or operation of making level.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LEVELING)

• Democratic
• Popular
• leveling
• radical
• subversive
• unlicensed
• unarculca
• destructive
• republican

Related words: (words related to LEVELING)

• POPULARIZATION
  The act of making popular, or of introducing among the people.
• DEMOCRATICAL
  Democratic. The democratical was democratically received. Algernon Sidney.
• DESTRUCTIVENESS
  The faculty supposed to impel to the commission of acts of destruction; propensity to destroy. (more info) 1. The quality of destroying or ruining. Prynne.
• LEVELER
  1. One who, or that which, levels. 2. One who would remove social inequalities or distinctions; a socialist.
• LEVEL
  libella level, water level, a plumb level, dim. of libra pound, measure for liquids, balance, water poise, level. Cf. Librate, 1. A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is
• RADICALNESS
  Quality or state of being radical.
• POPULAR
  1. Of or pertaining to the common people, or to the whole body of the people, as distinguished from a select portion; as, the popular voice; popular elections. "Popular states." Bacon. "So the popular vote inclines." Milton. The commonly held in
• DEMOCRATIC
  1. Pertaining to democracy; favoring democracy, or constructed upon the principle of government by the people. 2. Relating to a political party so called. 3. Befitting the common people; -- opposed to aristocratic. The Democratic party, the name
• DESTRUCTIVELY
  In a destructive manner.
• RADICALLY
  1. In a radical manner; at, or from, the origin or root; fundamentally; as, a scheme or system radically wrong or defective. 2. Without derivation; primitively; essentially. These great orbs thus radically bright. Prior.
• SUBVERSIVE
  Tending to subvert; having a tendency to overthrow and ruin. Lying is a vice subversive of the very ends and design of conversation. Rogers.
• REPUBLICANIZE
  To change, as a state, into a republic; to republican principles; as, France was republicanized; to republicanize the rising generation. D. Ramsay.
• POPULARES
  The people or the people's party, in ancient Rome, as opposed to the optimates.
• POPULARNESS
  The quality or state of being popular; popularity. Coleridge.
• REPUBLICANISM
  1. A republican form or system of government; the principles or theory of republican government. 2. Attachment to, or political sympathy for, a republican form of government. Burke. 3. The principles and policy of the Republican party, so called
• LEVELISM
  The disposition or endeavor to level all distinctions of rank in society.
• LEVELLY
  In an even or level manner.
• POPULARIZE
  To make popular; to make suitable or acceptable to the common people; to make generally known; as, to popularize philosophy. "The popularizing of religious teaching." Milman.
• LEVELNESS
  The state or quality of being level.
• POPULARITY
  1. The quality or state of being popular; especially, the state of being esteemed by, or of being in favor with, the people at large; good will or favor proceeding from the people; as, the popularity of a law, statesman, or a book. A popularity
• SPORADICAL
  Sporadic.
• SEA LEVEL
  The level of the surface of the sea; any surface on the same level with the sea.
• EQUIRADICAL
  Equally radical. Coleridge.
• WATER LEVEL
  1. The level formed by the surface of still water. 2. A kind of leveling instrument. See under Level, n.
• AIR LEVEL
  Spirit level. See Level.