Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun look_up

1 sense of lookup

Sense 1
search, lookup -- (an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property; "they wrote a program to do a table lookup")
       => operation -- ((computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction); "it can perform millions of operations per second")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb look_up

1 sense of look up

Sense 1
consult, refer, look up -- (seek information from; "You should consult the dictionary"; "refer to your notes")
       => research -- (attempt to find out in a systematically and scientific manner; "The student researched the history of that word")