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[ verb ] seek information from
Examples "You should consult the dictionary" "refer to your notes" Used in print (Norman Kent, "The Watercolor Art of Roy M. Mason"...)When I looked_up the actual date of his birth and found it to be March 15_th , I realized that Roy was_born under the right zodiacal sign for a watercolorist : (Hugh Kelly and Ted Ziehe, "Glossary Lookup Made Easy"...)Each form represented by the dictionary is looked_up in the text form list . Each dictionary form is looked_up in the text form list by the same method used to look_up a new text occurrence in the form list during text reading . Each dictionary form is looked_up in the text form list by the same method used to look_up a new text occurrence in the form list during text reading . (Ralph B. Long. The Sentence and Its Parts: A...)In the Steiners have busy lives without visiting relatives only context can indicate whether visiting relatives is equivalent in meaning to paying visits to relatives or to relatives who are visiting them , and in I looked_up the number and I looked up the chimney only the meanings of number and chimney make it clear that up is syntactically a second complement in the first sentence and a preposition followed by its object in the second . |
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