LOOKUP

look up

Verb

We stayed up late to look up at the stars.
  1. To have better prospects, to improve.
    Things started looking up after Jim moved back in with his parents.
  2. To obtain information about something from a text source.
    I didn't know what a mitochondrion was until I looked it up in a dictionary.


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lookup

Noun

  1. An attempt to retrieve data.
    My database lookup failed because I misspelled the word.


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