Reference Sth Meaning Find Book Website Figure Word

Meaning: to try to find out something by looking in a reference book or on a reference website

• look sth up If you can't figure out what a word means, look it up in the dictionary.
  
  
• look up sth Did you try looking up her number in the phone book?
  
  

Nouns often used as objects with look up (1): word, meaning, telephone number, address, information