dead level

[ded levuhl]

adjective

1. completely flat or straight.

2. characterized by monotonous, tiring sameness.

3. completely equal or even.

noun

1. a completely flat surface or piece of land.

2. a state of monotonous, tiring sameness.

3. a state of equality or evenness, as in a vote.

4. Civil Engineering.,  the minimum water level in a reservoir below which water can no longer be drained by gravity.

Example Sentences

“The results in the water today are really the results for our entire squad of 65 women. None of this happens without all those women back home. The work the first varsity eight and the second varsity eight did together all year is how we were able to fight when it’s literally four boats across dead level halfway through the race.”

From Seattle Times

It has been a roller-coaster year with the championship lead changing hands a number of times over the course of the 21 races, but Hamilton's win in Saudi Arabia last time out means the pair head to Abu Dhabi dead level.

From BBC

He wears a suit jacket and no tie, with his top two shirt buttons undone, but the shirt is pressed and, more importantly, there is an American flag pin in his lapel, dead level, between the CK and the A at the ends of his first and last names.

From Slate

Today, depending on which of some half dozen leading opinion polls you look at, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservatives are either 15 percentage points ahead of Jeremy Corbyn’s rival Labour, or dead level with them.

From Reuters

This house sits about 70 feet from the curb of the street and the front yard looks dead level.

From Washington Post

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