Meaning of நிலை in English

Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength, etc.; predicament; rank; position, estate.
Essential quality; property; attribute.
Temperament; disposition; character.
That which must exist as the occasion or concomitant of something else; that which is requisite in order that something else should take effect; an essential qualification; stipulation; terms specified.
A clause in a contract, or agreement, which has for its object to suspend, to defeat, or in some way to modify, the principal obligation; or, in case of a will, to suspend, revoke, or modify a devise or bequest. It is also the case of a future uncertain event, which may or may not happen, and on the occurrence or non-occurrence of which, the accomplishment, recission, or modification of an obligation or testamentary disposition is made to depend.
To make terms; to stipulate.
To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.
To invest with, or limit by, conditions; to burden or qualify by a condition; to impose or be imposed as the condition of.
To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one's class or in college; as, to condition a student who has failed in some branch of study.
To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
train; acclimate.
A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is everywhere parallel to the surface of still water; -- this is the true level, and is a curve or surface in which all points are equally distant from the center of the earth, or rather would be so if the earth were an exact sphere.
A horizontal line or plane; that is, a straight line or a plane which is tangent to a true level at a given point and hence parallel to the horizon at that point; -- this is the apparent level at the given point.
An approximately horizontal line or surface at a certain degree of altitude, or distance from the center of the earth; as, to climb from the level of the coast to the level of the plateau and then descend to the level of the valley or of the sea.
Hence, figuratively, a certain position, rank, standard, degree, quality, character, etc., conceived of as in one of several planes of different elevation.
A uniform or average height; a normal plane or altitude; a condition conformable to natural law or which will secure a level surface; as, moving fluids seek a level.
An instrument by which to find a horizontal line, or adjust something with reference to a horizontal line.
A measurement of the difference of altitude of two points, by means of a level; as, to take a level.
A horizontal passage, drift, or adit, in a mine.
Even; flat; having no part higher than another; having, or conforming to, the curvature which belongs to the undisturbed liquid parts of the earth's surface; as, a level field; level ground; the level surface of a pond or lake.
Coinciding or parallel with the plane of the horizon; horizontal; as, the telescope is now level.
Even with anything else; of the same height; on the same line or plane; on the same footing; of equal importance; -- followed by with, sometimes by to.
Straightforward; direct; clear; open.
Well balanced; even; just; steady; impartial; as, a level head; a level understanding. [Colloq.]
Of even tone; without rising or falling inflection.
To make level; to make horizontal; to bring to the condition of a level line or surface; hence, to make flat or even; as, to level a road, a walk, or a garden.
To bring to a lower level; to overthrow; to topple down; to reduce to a flat surface; to lower.
To bring to a horizontal position, as a gun; hence, to point in taking aim; to aim; to direct.
Figuratively, to bring to a common level or plane, in respect of rank, condition, character, privilege, etc.; as, to level all the ranks and conditions of men.
To adjust or adapt to a certain level; as, to level remarks to the capacity of children.
To be level; to be on a level with, or on an equality with, something; hence, to accord; to agree; to suit.
To aim a gun, spear, etc., horizontally; hence, to aim or point a weapon in direct line with the mark; fig., to direct the eye, mind, or effort, directly to an object.
The state of being posited, or placed; the manner in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position.
The spot where a person or thing is placed or takes a place; site; place; station; situation; as, the position of man in creation; the fleet changed its position.
Hence: The ground which any one takes in an argument or controversy; the point of view from which any one proceeds to a discussion; also, a principle laid down as the basis of reasoning; a proposition; a thesis; as, to define one's position; to appear in a false position.
Relative place or standing; social or official rank; as, a person of position; hence, office; post; as, to lose one's position.
A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; -- called also the rule of trial and error.
To indicate the position of; to place.
Of or pertaining to position.
A floor or story of a house.
An elevated platform on which an orator may speak, a play be performed, an exhibition be presented, or the like.
A floor elevated for the convenience of mechanical work, or the like; a scaffold; a staging.
A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf.
The floor for scenic performances; hence, the theater; the playhouse; hence, also, the profession of representing dramatic compositions; the drama, as acted or exhibited.
A place where anything is publicly exhibited; the scene of any noted action or carrer; the spot where any remarkable affair occurs.
The platform of a microscope, upon which an object is placed to be viewed. See Illust. of Microscope.
A place of rest on a regularly traveled road; a stage house; a station; a place appointed for a relay of horses.
A degree of advancement in a journey; one of several portions into which a road or course is marked off; the distance between two places of rest on a road; as, a stage of ten miles.
A degree of advancement in any pursuit, or of progress toward an end or result.
A large vehicle running from station to station for the accomodation of the public; a stagecoach; an omnibus.
One of several marked phases or periods in the development and growth of many animals and plants; as, the larval stage; pupa stage; zoea stage.
To exhibit upon a stage, or as upon a stage; to display publicly.
A reservior in which water accumulates at the bottom of a mine.
Of, pertaining to, or existing with reference to, a State of the American Union, as distinguished from the general government.
The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.
Rank; condition; quality; as, the state of honor.
Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
Appearance of grandeur or dignity; pomp.
A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
Estate, possession.
A person of high rank.
Any body of men united by profession, or constituting a community of a particular character; as, the civil and ecclesiastical states, or the lords spiritual and temporal and the commons, in Great Britain. Cf. Estate, n., 6.
The principal persons in a government.
The bodies that constitute the legislature of a country; as, the States-general of Holland.
A form of government which is not monarchial, as a republic.
A political body, or body politic; the whole body of people who are united one government, whatever may be the form of the government; a nation.
In the United States, one of the commonwealth, or bodies politic, the people of which make up the body of the nation, and which, under the national constitution, stands in certain specified relations with the national government, and are invested, as commonwealth, with full power in their several spheres over all matters not expressly inhibited.
Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease; height; acme.
Stately.
Belonging to the state, or body politic; public.
To set; to settle; to establish.
To express the particulars of; to set down in detail or in gross; to represent fully in words; to narrate; to recite; as, to state the facts of a case, one's opinion, etc.
A statement; also, a document containing a statement.
Of or pertaining to a station.
State; condition; position of affairs.
Place, or spot, in general.
Place or room which another had, has, or might have.
A frame on which a bed is laid; a bedstead.
A farmhouse and offices.
To help; to support; to benefit; to assist.
To fill place of.