UP TO • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Up to

Translators

Dictionaries

Courses

Other

Home

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/əp tu/ Listen

Up to

adjective

Busy or occupied with. "Up to no good"

Having the requisite qualities for. Synonyms: adequate to, capable, equal to. "The work isn't up to the standard I require"

See images of 'Up to'

Related searches:

Share |

"Up to" Quotes from Famous Books

... cried. "There you are, gentlemen!" And he put his handkerchief on the top of his head and made a movement as if to thrust his hat into his pocket, but recollected himself and put the handkerchief into the hat instead. "I have been up to the school, gentlemen—Your servant, sir. I beg pardon for interrupting you; but I have been up to the school to ask for the young gentlemen there, and I saw Mr Wrench the Doctor's man, and he said that you had come on here ...

— Glyn Severn's Schooldays • George Manville Fenn

... art must despair of making even a tolerable imitation. And these are beauties which not even the sun can portray; the photographer's art has not yet enabled him to seize and fix them on the mirror which he holds up to nature. He can give the limbs and outward flourishes, but not the soul of such a scene. His representation bears the same relation to the reality that a beautiful corpse does to the flashing eye and glowing cheek of living beauty."—(From "Maple ...

— Picturesque Quebec • James MacPherson Le Moine

... possible. If, however, the boy were to accompany us, it was necessary that he should first learn something of our work and needs, and perhaps of English. Accordingly, I decided to go to Cholula and bring the boy up to the States. ...

— In Indian Mexico (1908) • Frederick Starr

... were on the way, going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus was going before them: and they were amazed; and they ...

— His Last Week - The Story of the Passion and Resurrection of Jesus • William E. Barton

... authority should be given to the proper Department to reissue Treasury notes. But the state of facts existing at the present moment can not fail to awaken a doubt whether the amount of the revenue for the respective quarters of the year will come up to the estimates, nor is it entirely certain that the expenditures which will be authorized by Congress may not exceed the aggregate sum which has hitherto been assumed as the basis of ...

— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Tyler - Section 2 (of 3) of Volume 4: John Tyler • Compiled by James D. Richardson

More quotes...