English
Verb
look up (third-person singular simple present looks up, present participle looking up, simple past and past participle looked up)
- (deprecated use of
|lang=parameter) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see look, up.- We stayed up late to look up at the stars.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To have better prospects, to improve.
- Things started looking up after Jim moved back in with his parents.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To obtain information about something from a text source.
- I didn't know what a mitochondrion was until I looked it up in a dictionary.
- (transitive) To track down or search for (someone) that one used to know.
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Translations
used other than as an idiom
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to have better prospects, to improve
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to obtain information about something from a text source
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