"spirit level" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: spirit levels [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} spirit level (plural spirit levels)
  1. (tool) A tool employing a chamber with a colored liquid (usually alcohol, hence spirit) and an air bubble, used to determine a horizontal or vertical reference line. Wikipedia link: spirit level Categories (topical): Tools Synonyms: bubble level Translations (spirit level): waterpas (Afrikaans), مِيزَانُ مَاء (mīzānu māʔ) [masculine] (Arabic), nivell de bombolla (Catalan), 水平器 (shuǐpíngqì) (Chinese Mandarin), 水平管 (shuǐpíngguǎn) (Chinese Mandarin), vodováha [feminine] (Czech), vaterpas (Danish), waterpas (Dutch), nivelilo (Esperanto), vatupassi (Finnish), vesivaaka (Finnish), niveau à bulle [masculine] (French), Wasserwaage [feminine] (German), αλφάδι (alfádi) [neuter] (Greek), vaataparsi (Greenlandic), waterpas (Indonesian), penyipat datar (Indonesian), leibhéal biotáille (Irish), livella [feminine] (Italian), 水準器 (suijunki) (alt: すいじゅんき) (Japanese), ខ្នាតទឹក (knaat tɨk) (Khmer), 수준기 (sujun'gi) (Korean), timbang air (Malay), nivé (Norman), libella [feminine] (Polish), poziomica [feminine] (Polish), nível de bolha [masculine] (Portuguese), nivelă cu bulă de aer [feminine] (Romanian), nivelă [feminine] (Romanian), nivel [neuter] (Romanian), cumpănă [feminine] (Romanian), poloboc [neuter] (Romanian), у́ровень (úrovenʹ) [masculine] (Russian), пузырько́вый у́ровень (puzyrʹkóvyj úrovenʹ) [masculine] (Russian), спиртово́й у́ровень (spirtovój úrovenʹ) [masculine] (Russian), vaterpass [neuter] (Scanian), либела [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), ливел [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), васервага [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), libela [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), razulja [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), livel [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), vaservaga [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), nivel de burbuja [masculine] (Spanish), vattenpass (Swedish), lefel ysbryd (Welsh)

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      "sense": "spirit level",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "livel"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "spirit level",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "vaservaga"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "spirit level",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "nivel de burbuja"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "spirit level",
      "word": "vattenpass"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "spirit level",
      "word": "lefel ysbryd"
    }
  ],
  "word": "spirit level"
}

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