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单词 unlevel
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unleveladj.

Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈlɛvl/, U.S. /ˌənˈlɛv(ə)l/
Forms: see un- prefix1 and level adj. and adv.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix1, level adj.
Etymology: < un- prefix1 + level adj. Compare earlier unlevelled adj.
Not level, flat, or uniform; uneven.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > [adjective]
unevenc1275
rudea1393
craggeda1400
knaggedc1430
raggedc1450
raggy1483
cocklya1529
rugged1528
knaggy1552
unlevel?a1560
craggy1568
scraggy1574
balkish1577
cockling1582
cockled1600
unequal1613
salebrous1633
scragged1641
inequal1661
unevenly1683
hummocky1767
snaggly1794
snaggy1806
hobblya1825
shreddy1835
scraggly1869
bobbly1909
pebbly1923
snaggled1938
?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) i. xii. sig. D iij v How vneuen or vnleuell so euer the ground bee.
1596 M. Drayton Mortimeriados sig. Q3 Shee poynteth towards the deepe, As the ground leuell, or vnleuell lay.
a1644 F. Quarles Shepheards Oracles (1646) iii All things were unlevell, And rude disorder crept into our State.
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 338 The small un-level lying of every Sheet..makes each Sheet incline to the lowest side of the Heap.
1718 S. Switzer Ichnographia Rustica II. ii. 33 The mean Depth of this unlevel irregular Peice of Ground.
1772 Ann. Reg. 1771 Useful Projects 109/2 That unlevel pastures may be ploughed down without any injury.
1818 T. Hulme Jrnl. 17 July in W. Cobbett Year's Resid. U.S.A. (1819) iii. 351 A place situated..upon high, unlevel lands.
1873 E. Spon Workshop Receipts 1st Ser. 36/1 Should the cloth have got unlevel.
1916 Publ. Astron. Soc. Pacific 28 245 The surfaces of the Earth and the Moon are exceedingly unlevel.
1963 Illustr. London News 9 Mar. 360/1 (caption) This cantilever house..can be built especially easily on unlevel sites.
2014 Horse & Rider Apr. 118/1 An unlevel pelvis places pressure on your spine.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

unlevelv.

Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈlɛvl/, U.S. /ˌənˈlɛv(ə)l/
Forms: see un- prefix2 and level v.1
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix2, level v.1
Etymology: < un- prefix2 + level v.1 Compare earlier unlevelled adj.
transitive. To make uneven or no longer level.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > make uneven [verb (transitive)]
unevenc1440
jag1568
unlevela1586
rugged1628
cockle1686
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xi. sig. Oo7 [The] place..was so plaine, as there was scarcely any bush, or hillock, either to vnleuell, or shadowe it.
1624 F. Quarles Job Militant in Divine Poems xix. 10 His Lunatick affections doe vnleuell, What Heauen created by iust Waight and Measure.
1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. G6 Come thou not neere that Filmne so finely spred, Where no one piece is yet unlevelled.
1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 189 There are as many places that seem to be unlevel'd, as there are level'd.
1834 R. Southey Doctor II. 127 In 1723 the church floor and church yard, which had both been unlevelled by Death's levelling course, were levelled anew.
1868 Georgia Weekly Tel. 7 Aug. A high price for the present crop of cotton will unlevel the heads of men.
1975 Economist 5 Apr. 75/3 Inflation, apparently, did more to level incomes down than the first Barber budget did to unlevel them up.
2003 T. J. Tomasi It's Good for your Game vii. 148 When one foot is higher than the other it unlevels the hips.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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