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look-up

look-up is the alternative form of lookup.

Meaning of lookup

Noun

lookup (plural lookups)

  1. An attempt to retrieve data.
    • My database lookup failed because I misspelled the word.
  2. The process of locating a term in a reference work.
    • For some terms there is no Index entry that approaches the current spelling, making look-up difficult.2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 491

Forms of look-up

plurallook-ups

Origin of look-up

Deverbal from look up.

Questions about look-up

What is look-up the alternative form of?
Look-up is the alternative form of lookup.

Words near look-up in the dictionary

  1. look-say
  2. look-see
  3. look-seeing
  4. look-seen
  5. look-sees
  6. look-up
  7. look-ups
  8. lookability
  9. lookable
  10. lookahead
  11. lookahead time

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Adapted from Wiktionary: look-up (page history and authors); lookup (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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