Meanings
How to pronounce "look up":
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see look, up.
Example: "We stayed up late to look up at the stars."
To have better prospects.
Example: "Things started looking up after Jim moved back in with his parents."
To obtain, or seek to obtain, information about something. To obtain information about something from a reference book. To enter a query into a database or search engine.
Example: "I didn't know what a mitochondrion was until I looked it up in a dictionary."
Example: "If you look up a bunch of random characters, there will probably be no results."
To obtain information about something from a reference book.
Example: "I didn't know what a mitochondrion was until I looked it up in a dictionary."
To enter a query into a database or search engine.
Example: "If you look up a bunch of random characters, there will probably be no results."
