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look up

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. consult, refer, look upverb

    seek information from

    "You should consult the dictionary"; "refer to your notes"

Wiktionary

  1. look upverb

    To look in an upwards manner

  2. look upverb

    To have better prospects, to improve

  3. look upverb

    To obtain information about something from a text source

Wikidata

  1. Look Up

    Look Up is a studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Neuwirth. It was released on 19 March 1996 by Watermelon Records and it is his first solo album since 1991's 99 Monkeys. Neuwirth on this album worked with several musicians including Patti Smith and Elliott Murphy.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of look up in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of look up in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of look up in a Sentence

  1. The No. 1-seeded Djokovic:

    Hopefully he can tell me something that could help me, he is one of the all-time greats, legends of our sport. Someone I admire, respect and look up to.

  2. Pete Buttigieg:

    I don't know if Donald Trump felt it necessary to pull out a sharpie and change the map, I don't know if one of his aides felt they had to do that to protect Donald Trump ego. No matter how you cut it, this is an unbelievably sad state of affairs for our country, look, when the presidency has been reduced to this, all of us are diminished because the presidency is supposed to be something we all look up to, even if we disagree with the President... what we're seeing there is literally pathetic.

  3. Dwyane Wade:

    When I sit down with my kids and I sit down and talk to them about role models and who I want them to look up to, I tell them to go look up James Shaw Jr..

  4. Donna Pollard:

    The clerk didn’t even look up at me from her computer. She only asked: ‘Which one’s the minor?’ She didn’t assess if I was safe or needed something. He was 30 years old at the time, but nobody questioned the fact that he was so much older.

  5. Mark Twain:

    We had the sky up there, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss whether they was made or just happened.


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