Complete Definition of "look up"

English

Verb
en-verb|inf=to look up|looks up|looking up|looked up|looked up

  1. intransitive To look in an upwards manner

#:I'm looking up at the stars to see if I can see Mars

  1. intransitive To have a bright future

#:Things started looking up since Jim moved in with his girlfriend

  1. transitive To obtain information about something from a text source

#:I didn't know what a mitochondrion was, so I looked it up in a dictionary

Related terms
look up to

Translations
trans-top|to obtain information about something from a text source
Czech: vyhledat
trans-mid
trans-bottom

ja:look up

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