leveller

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person or thing that levels. UK
    — A soil leveller is used to prepare the field before sowing.
  2. A person or thing that levels.; A device used to stabilize wobbly tables, chair legs, or other furniture. UK
    — I adjusted the leveller built into each leg of the table, but it still wobbled.
  3. Something that transcends people’s differences (such as social class, wealth, etc.); something that tends to eliminate advantages and disadvantages. UK
    — Conversation is not to be met with in large and mixed companies; and a card-table, considered as an universal leveller, may have its use, by placing the weak and timid on a par with the most lively and overbearing.
  4. A person holding a political opinion in favor of eliminating disparities between the haves and the have-nots. UK
    — Among the independents, who, in general, were for having no eccleſiaſtical ſubordination, a ſet of men grew up called Levellers, who diſallowed all ſubordination whatſoever, and declared that they would have no other chaplain, king, or general, but Chriſt. They declared that all men were equal; that all degrees and ranks should be levelled, and an exact partition of property eſtabliſhed in the nation.
  5. An equaliser. UK
    — Cardiff pressed for a leveller to force the tie into penalties, but Stoke comfortably held out and Walters added his second finishing from a tight angle after his first shot was beaten back to him by Heaton.
形容词 adj.
  1. comparative form of level: more level UK,comparative,form-of

词形变化

leveler alternative levellers plural leveler alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
death is the great leveller
相关词
antileveling

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *leyH-der.
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰromder.
Proto-Italic *līðrā?
Latin lībra
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -la
Latin libella
Old French nivel
Old French livelbor.
Middle English level
English level
English -er
English leveller
From level + -er.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *leyH-der.
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰromder.
Proto-Italic *līðrā?
Latin lībra
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -la
Latin libella
Old French nivel
Old French livelbor.
Middle English level
English level
English -er
English leveller
From level + -er.
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