LOOK UP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does look up mean? 

• LOOK UP (verb)
  The verb LOOK UP has 1 sense:

1. seek information from

  Familiarity information: LOOK UP used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOOK UP (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Seek information from

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

consult; look up; refer

Context example:

refer to your notes

Hypernyms (to "look up" is one way to...):

research (attempt to find out in a systematically and scientific manner)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

Look up to it, and be tranquil if you can.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Let me look up from it—as at last I did, thank Heaven!—and from its long, sad, wretched dream, to dawn.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I shall look up Thomas Snelling to-day.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It was such a surprise to look up and find you, just as I was beginning to fear you wouldn't come, she said, trying in vain to speak quite naturally.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Easier the other way, perhaps; and yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black shadow wavering down upon me?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

While I still hung over her in the agony of despair, I happened to look up.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I don’t know what made me look up, but there was a face looking in at me through the lower pane.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Things started to look up last month when Jupiter, the giver of gifts and luck, entered Capricorn for the first time in 12 years.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

He paused in the office to look up steamer sailings.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“Now, Miss Crawford, if you will look up the walk, you will convince yourself that it cannot be half a mile long, or half half a mile.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)