look up meaning
EN- VerbSGlooks upPRlooking upPT, PPlooked up
- Used other than as an idiom: see look, up.
- We stayed up late to look up at the stars.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To have better prospects, to improve.
- Things started looking up after Jim moved back in with his parents.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To obtain information about something from a text source.
- I didn't know what a mitochondrion was until I looked it up in a dictionary.
- (transitive) To track down or search for (someone) that one used to know.
- Used other than as an idiom: see look, up.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Things started looking up after Jim moved back in with his parents.
- The inquiry’s chair, Alex Gallacher, later looked up flexicuffs on an electronic device, and described them as “basically cable ties”, noting it would be very easy for Nichols to mistake them as such.
- Someday our grandchildren will look up at us and say, "Where were you, Grandma, and what were you doing when you first realized that President Reagan was, er, not playing with a full deck?"
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of look up in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Phrases
- Phrasal verbs
- Phrasal verbs with particle (up)
- Phrasal verbs with particle (up)
- Phrasal verbs
- Verbs
- Phrasal verbs
- Phrasal verbs with particle (up)
- Phrasal verbs with particle (up)
- Intransitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Phrasal verbs
- Phrases
- en look upon
- en look up to
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this idiom "look up" is a phrase, more specifically, a phrasal verb. It's also a verb, more specifically, a phrasal verb, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.