LOOK UP


Meaning of LOOK UP in English

1.

If you look up a fact or a piece of information, you find it out by looking in something such as a reference book or a list.

I looked your address up in the personnel file...

Many people have to look up the meaning of this word in the dictionary.

PHRASAL VERB : V n P , V P n (not pron)

2.

If you look someone up , you visit them after not having seen them for a long time.

I’ll try to look him up, ask him a few questions...

She looked up some friends of bygone years.

= visit

PHRASAL VERB : V n P , V P n (not pron)

3.

If a situation is looking up , it is improving. ( INFORMAL )

Things could be looking up in the computer industry.

= improve

PHRASAL VERB : usu cont , V P

Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary.      Английский словарь Коллинз COBUILD для изучающих язык на продвинутом уровне.