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What (who) is look up - definition
look up
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Look Up (album); Look Up (disambiguation)
1.
If you look up a fact or a piece of information, you find it out by looking in something such as a reference book or a list.
I looked your address up in the personnel file...
Many people have to look up the meaning of this word in the dictionary.
PHRASAL VERB: V n P, V P n (not pron)
2.
If you look someone up, you visit them after not having seen them for a long time.
I'll try to look him up, ask him a few questions...
She looked up some friends of bygone years.
= visit
PHRASAL VERB: V n P, V P n (not pron)
3.
If a situation is looking up, it is improving. (INFORMAL)
Things could be looking up in the computer industry.
= improve
PHRASAL VERB: usu cont, V P
look up
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Look Up (album); Look Up (disambiguation)
v. (d; intr.) to look up to ('to respect') (children look up to their parents)
Examples of use of look up
1. You can‘t get on the Internet and look up terms or look up anything related to this case.
2. Look up the interesting Arctic summer program ÷ If you like to see beautiful pictures of Norway look up Fjord Travel Norway picture galleries ÷
3. Is she having to look up words in the dictionary?
4. "You look up and they‘re everywhere," she marveled.
5. I look up at the window from which Safronov fell.