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look up

• search for and find a piece of information in a book or database.
• "the translation process amounted to little more than looking up words in bilingual dictionaries"
• (of a situation) improve.
• "things seemed to be looking up at last"
Similar: improve, show improvement, get better, pick up, advance, develop, come along/on, progress, make progress, make headway, shape up, perk up, rally, take a turn for the better,

lookup noun

• the action of systematic electronic information retrieval.


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