look up

look someone or something up and hunt someone or something up

1. to seek someone, a group, or something out. I lost track of Sally. I'll try to look her up and get in touch with her. lam going to look up an old friend when lam in Chicago. I am going to hunt that old gang up. Ted came into town and looked up his favorite pizza place.

2. to seek information about someone or something in a book or listing. I don't recognize his name. I'll look him up and see what I can find. I'll look up this person in a reference book. She looked herself up in the telephone book to make sure her name was spelled correctly.

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look up

to show promise of improving. My prospects for a job are looking up. Conditions are looking up.

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look up (from something)

to gaze upwards; to stop reading or working and lift one's gaze upward. She looked up from her reading and spoke to us. Mary looked up as we came into the room.

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look somebody up also look up somebody

to visit someone Look me up the next time you're in Los Angeles. I hope you'll look up my niece while you're in Pittsburgh.

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look something up also look up something

to check a fact or get information about something If you don't know the meaning of the word, look it up in your dictionary. The research involved looking up how my opponent voted.

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Almost all search engines and free email address providers provide email and reverse email look up features for its clients.

Find Email Addresses - Finding Someone?s Email Address Easily by J. Purden / Computers and Internet community

There is a couple of ways to look up a person's cell phone number.

Online Reverse Cell Phone Lookup Services by Cecil Tracey / Health, general community

As an affiliate of ACME-PEOPLE-SEARCH, you are given a carbon copy of his search engine which includes a pre-packaged website allowing visitors to conduct people searches, reverse phone look ups, background checks, email and SSN searches.

Work from Home with Little Knowledge to Earn Residual Income by A S Kumar / Business community

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