variants
or look-up
: an act, process, or instance of looking something up (as in a reference work or listing)
dictionary lookups
a price look-up
looked up; looking up; looks up
1
: to cheer up
look up—things are not all bad
2
: to improve in prospects or conditions
business is looking up
1
: to search for in or as if in a reference work
look up an address
2
: to seek out especially for a brief visit
look me up when you're here
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Examples of lookup in a Sentence
Verb
be sure to look me up if you're ever in town
by the next morning, the skies had begun to clear and we were looking up
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Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 23 May 2024
In the meantime, drivers can also confirm if their specific vehicle is included in this recall and find more information using the NHTSA site and/or Kia’s recall lookup platform.
—Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Chicago Tribune, 7 June 2024
Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 2 July 2024
Some people look up at the sound, but Ivan does not.
—Sally Rooney, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
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Noun
The lag prompted engineers to delay work that had been scheduled for this week on the name servers that handle lookups for domain names ending in .gov and .int.
—Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 23 May 2024
In the meantime, drivers can also confirm if their specific vehicle is included in this recall and find more information using the NHTSA site and/or Kia’s recall lookup platform.
—Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Chicago Tribune, 7 June 2024
Verb
There are numerous nods to both Jordan and Hamlin throughout the building, including the competition side of the race team working inside walls decked out in Chicago Bulls red, while the business side of the office looks up to Carolina blue.
—Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 2 July 2024
Some people look up at the sound, but Ivan does not.
—Sally Rooney, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
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“Lookup.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lookup. Accessed 7 Jul. 2024.
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lookup
1 of 2 noun
look·up
ˈlu̇k-ˌəp 
: the process or an instance of looking something up
especially
: the process of matching by computer the words of a text with material stored in memory
look up
2 of 2 verb
: to seek for or out
look up a word in the dictionary
look up a friend
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