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LOOK UP

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Seek information from

Example:

refer to your notes

Synonyms:

consult; look up; refer

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "look up" is one way to...):

research (attempt to find out in a systematically and scientific manner)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Credits

 Context examples: 

In turning a leaf she happened to look up, and I said to her directly—"Is your book interesting?"

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I am determined I will not look up.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

He wanted her to look up and smile; and having now brought herself not to smile too broadly—she did—cheerfully answering, You need not be at any pains to reconcile me to the match.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Last night Challenger said that he never cared to walk on the Thames Embankment and look up the river, as it was always sad to see one's own eventual goal.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the yellow glare of the carriage-lamp I saw the baronet look up at our windows, and if hatred could have killed, his eyes would have been as deadly as his pistol.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is predicted that an astronaut walking on the red soil of the planet could look up to see the southern night sky glow blue, with red and green hues.

(Blue Aurorae in Mars’ Sky Visible to the Naked Eye, NASA)

Tonight when the new Moon rises, or in the next few nights when the Moon is a slim crescent, go outside and look up.

(Earthshine, NASA)

Mostly he would not speak when spoken to, only look up sudden and fierce and blow through his nose like a fog-horn; and we and the people who came about our house soon learned to let him be.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

They had just started to cross this queer bridge when a sharp growl made them all look up, and to their horror they saw running toward them two great beasts with bodies like bears and heads like tigers.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Might I trouble you, my dear Watson, to draw a little nearer to the window, taking every precaution not to show yourself, and then to look up at our old rooms—the starting-point of so many of your little fairy-tales?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)