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A LEVEL
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The advanced level of a subject taken in school (usually two years after O level)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("A level" is a kind of...):
grade; level; tier (a relative position or degree of value in a graded group)
Domain region:
England (a division of the United Kingdom)
Context examples:
A level of DNA packaging in chromatin above that of the nucleosome, the fundamental subunit of chromatin structure.
(Chromatin Fiber, NCI Thesaurus)
It was, as I have said, a pit, with sharply-sloping walls and a level bottom about twenty feet across.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Clinical course usually follows a progressive neurologic deterioration which stabilizes at a level of severe, permanent disability.
(Paraneoplastic Subacute Sensory Neuronopathy, NCI Thesaurus)
Foully murdered, with a score of wounds upon him and a rope round his neck, his poor friend had been cast from the upper window and swung slowly in the night wind, his body rasping against the wall and his disfigured face upon a level with the casement.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And, in those blood samples, people who had gotten TB were much more likely to have been vitamin A deficient or to be in the lower two quartiles of vitamin A level, so not even technically vitamin A deficient, but just lower than ... people who didn’t get TB. ...
(Vitamin A Supplement May Thwart Tuberculosis Infection, Jessica Berman/VOA)
Jo lounged in her favorite low seat, with the grave quiet look which best became her, and Laurie, leaning on the back of her chair, his chin on a level with her curly head, smiled with his friendliest aspect, and nodded at her in the long glass which reflected them both.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
On the opposite slope of the watershed they came down into a level country where were great stretches of forest and many streams, and through these great stretches they ran steadily, hour after hour, the sun rising higher and the day growing warmer.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
The king, who, as I before observed, was a prince of excellent understanding, would frequently order that I should be brought in my box, and set upon the table in his closet: he would then command me to bring one of my chairs out of the box, and sit down within three yards distance upon the top of the cabinet, which brought me almost to a level with his face.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
The control group received no arsenic in its drinking water, while the two experimental groups received either the Environmental Protection Agency standard of 10 parts per billion of arsenic or 42.5 parts per million of arsenic, a level known to have detrimental effects in mice.
(Low-level arsenic exposure before birth associated with early puberty and obesity in female mice, NIH)
Scientists have sketched out one of the greatest baby booms in North American history, a centuries-long growth blip among southwestern Native Americans between 500 and 1300 A.D. It was a time when the early features of civilization—including farming and food storage—had matured to a level where birth rates likely exceeded the highest in the world today.
(Scientists chart a baby boom in southwestern Native Americans from 500 to 1300 A.D., NSF)
