LOOK UP meaning: Search for information or direction

We found 24 dictionaries that define the word look up:

General (18 matching dictionaries)

look up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
look-up, look up: Merriam-Webster
look up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
look-up, look-up, look up: Collins English Dictionary
look up: Vocabulary.com
Look-Up, Look-up, look-up: Wordnik
look up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
look-up, look up: Wiktionary
look-up, look up: Dictionary.com
Look Up (Bob Neuwirth album), Look Up (Mod Sun album), Look Up (song): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
look up: Phrasal Verb Page
look up: FreeDictionary.org
look up: Mnemonic Dictionary
look-up, look up: TheFreeDictionary.com
Look Up, Look-up: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
look up: Rhymezone

Business (2 matching dictionaries)

look up: Legal dictionary
look up: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

look-up, look up: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

look up: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

look up, look up: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Look up, Look up: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (look up)

▸ verb:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see look, up.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic) To have better prospects.
▸ verb:  (transitive, idiomatic) To obtain, or seek to obtain, information about something.
▸ verb:  To obtain information about something from a reference book.
▸ verb:  To enter a query into a database or search engine.
▸ verb:  (transitive, idiomatic) To reconnect or meet with someone that one used to know.

Similar:

refer, consult, look to, look into, come up, stay up, write up, use to, look, lay eyes on, more...

Opposite:

look down, look away, ignore, neglect

Types:

dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, atlas, almanac, phone book, reference book, more...

Phrases:

look up to, colour look up table, look up and down, look someone up and down, look up table, more...

Adjectives:

flat out, stay at home, red-faced, next level, cut down, frontside, every second, caught stealing, each way, all the same, up in the air

Colors:

sky blue, azure, cerulean, indigo, teal, more...