Levelling Synonyms and Antonyms

To move (a weapon or blow, for example) in the direction of someone or something
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. turning
  2. training
  3. setting
  4. pointing
  5. heading
  6. directing
  7. casting
  8. aiming
  9. laying
Tear down so as to make flat with the ground
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. squaring
  2. dismantling
  3. evening
  4. equating
  5. equalizing
  6. razing
Antonyms:
  1. turning
  2. raising
  3. lying
  4. deceiving
To cause to fall, as from a shot or blow
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. decking
  2. throwing
  3. prostrating
  4. grounding
  5. flooring
  6. flattening
  7. dropping
  8. downing
Make level or straight
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. straightening
  2. smoothing
  3. equalizing
  4. pointing
  5. planing
  6. flushing
  7. flattening
  8. steadying
  9. staging
  10. reducing
  11. flatting
  12. evening
  13. razing
  14. ranking
  15. positioning
  16. parallelling
  17. overthrowing
  18. grading
  19. flooring
  20. equaling
  21. directing
  22. demolishing
  23. adjusting
  24. charging
  25. adapting
Antonyms:
  1. constructing
  2. raising
  3. building
  4. lying
  5. deceiving
  6. turning
To direct emphatically or forcefully toward someone:
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. aiming

Words Related to Levelling

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Levelling Sentence Examples

  • Gears are provided for elevating, levelling, aligning the upper and lower optical systems, adjusting the inclination of the reflector and rotating the mast around a vertical axis so that observations may be made and azimuth angles taken in all directions.

  • Theodolites are designed to measure horizontal angles with greater accuracy than vertical, because it is on the former that the most important work of a survey depends; measures of vertical angles are liable to be much impaired by atmospheric refraction, more particularly on long lines, so that when heights have to be determined with much accuracy the theodolite must be discarded for a levelling instrument.

  • C. i treats of the finding of good water; c. 2 of rainwater and rivers - rivers in various countries; c. 3 of hot springs, mineral waters, with an account of the chief medicinal springs of the world; c. 4 of selection of water by observation and experiment; c. 5 of instruments for levelling used by aqueduct engineers; c. 6 of construction of aqueducts, pipes of lead, clay, &c., and other matter on the subject of water-supply.

  • In Japan, Germany, Austria, England and Russia horizontal pendulums of the von Rebeur-Paschwitz type are employed, which by means of levelling screws are usually adjusted to have a natural period or double swing of from 15 to 30 seconds.

  • The base plate rests upon levelling screws which permit the adjustment of the polar axis to be made with great precision.

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