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or look-up
: an act, process, or instance of looking something up (as in a reference work or listing)
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a price look-up
looked up; looking up; looks up
1
: to cheer up
look up—things are not all bad
2
: to improve in prospects or conditions
business is looking up
1
: to search for in or as if in a reference work
look up an address
2
: to seek out especially for a brief visit
look me up when you're here
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Verb
be sure to look me up if you're ever in town
by the next morning, the skies had begun to clear and we were looking up
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Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 23 Sep. 2024
This includes battle card development, customer profiles, role-playing for call preparation and knowledge base lookups to answer specific customer questions or objections during a call.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
Abbey Stone, SELF, 31 Oct. 2024
Things are looking up for U.S. consumers and future growth.
—Jason Schenker, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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Noun
Grinberg's emulator makes clever use of lookup tables and other tricks to squeeze maximum performance out of the primitive CPU.
—Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 23 Sep. 2024
This includes battle card development, customer profiles, role-playing for call preparation and knowledge base lookups to answer specific customer questions or objections during a call.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
Verb
Poets and cub scouts, romantics and scientists, people young and old around the world have looked up and been dazzled by the flecks of light speckled across the night’s inky canvas.
—Abbey Stone, SELF, 31 Oct. 2024
Things are looking up for U.S. consumers and future growth.
—Jason Schenker, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
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“Lookup.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lookup. Accessed 15 Nov. 2024.
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lookup
1 of 2 noun
look·up
ˈlu̇k-ˌəp 
: the process or an instance of looking something up
especially
: the process of matching by computer the words of a text with material stored in memory
look up
2 of 2 verb
: to seek for or out
look up a word in the dictionary
look up a friend
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