"up to the mark" meaning in All languages combined

See up to the mark on Wiktionary

Prepositional phrase [English]

Head templates: {{head|en|prepositional phrase|head=}} up to the mark, {{en-PP}} up to the mark
  1. Possessing adequate knowledge or skill.
    Sense id: en-up_to_the_mark-en-prep_phrase-1H6ECNIf Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Download JSON data for up to the mark meaning in All languages combined (0.9kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "prepositional phrase",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "up to the mark",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "up to the mark",
      "name": "en-PP"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "prep_phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008, D. G. Mulcahy, The Educated Person: Toward a New Paradigm for Liberal Education, page 37",
          "text": "He is up to the mark in literature and the arts, in history, and in public affairs.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Possessing adequate knowledge or skill."
      ],
      "id": "en-up_to_the_mark-en-prep_phrase-1H6ECNIf",
      "links": [
        [
          "adequate",
          "adequate"
        ],
        [
          "knowledge",
          "knowledge"
        ],
        [
          "skill",
          "skill"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "up to the mark"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "prepositional phrase",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "up to the mark",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "up to the mark",
      "name": "en-PP"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "prep_phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English prepositional phrases",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008, D. G. Mulcahy, The Educated Person: Toward a New Paradigm for Liberal Education, page 37",
          "text": "He is up to the mark in literature and the arts, in history, and in public affairs.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Possessing adequate knowledge or skill."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "adequate",
          "adequate"
        ],
        [
          "knowledge",
          "knowledge"
        ],
        [
          "skill",
          "skill"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "up to the mark"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.