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TO LOOK UP

Definition: TO LOOK UP

TO LOOK UP

1. To search for or find out by looking; as, to look up the items of an account.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Crosswords: TO LOOK UP

English words defined with "TO LOOK UP": To lift up the eyes. (references)

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Modern Usage: TO LOOK UP

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Screenplays

He's the kind of man the world pretends to look up to, and in fact despises (Doctor Zhivago; writing credit: Boris Pasternak; Robert Bolt)

I still don't know why we had to come here to look up information on a killer snot monster (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

No, but now I have to look up that word (Sports Night; writing credit: Tom Brady; Kevin Falls)

Lyrics

People need someone to look up to (Greatest Love Of All; performing artist: Whitney Houston)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: TO LOOK UP

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Books

  • Don't Forget To Look Up : A Christian's Guide to Overcoming Anxiety and Panic Attacks (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: TO LOOK UP

TitleAuthorQuote

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

When the thirty centuries begin to look down on it, mankind begin to look up at it.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: TO LOOK UP

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Health

In particular, you can use the advanced search options to look up pamphlets, reports, brochures, and information kits. (references)

They have brain involvement that can be extensive leading to inability to look up and down, difficulty in walking and swallowing, as well as progressive loss of vision and hearing. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expression: TO LOOK UP

Expression using "TO LOOK UP": To look up to. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: TO LOOK UP

Language Translations for "TO LOOK UP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

nachsehen (audit, check, check back, check up on, consult, examine, gaze after, have a look, look, look and see, look for, look up, see, supervise, to look after, verify, watch), aufsehen (ado, astonishment, din, furor, furore, look up, noise, sensation, surprise, wonder). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

utánanéz vminek (saw, seen, to check on sg, to check up on sg, to see, to see to sg), felnéz, felkeres (to seek out, to visit). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

振り仰ぐ , 仰ぎ見る , 仰ぎ奉る , 仰のく , 仰ぐ (to ask for, to depend on, to drink, to respect, to revere, to seek, to take). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ふりあおぐ, あおぎたてまつる, あおぎみる, あおのく, あおぐ (to ask for, to depend on, to drink, to fan, to flap, to respect, to revere, to seek, to take). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay ooklay upay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TO LOOK UP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "k-l-o-o-o-p-t-u"

-1 letter: lookout, outlook.

-2 letters: lookup.

-3 letters: poult.

-4 letters: kolo, koto, look, loop, loot, loup, lout, plot, polo, pool, pout, tolu, took, tool.

-5 letters: kop, loo, lop, lot, oot, opt, out, pol, pot, pul, put, too, top, tup, upo.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Fiction
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Expressions
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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