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look-up|ˈlʊkʌp|
[f. vbl. phr. to look up (see look v. 45).]
1. A call, a visit. rare.
1855D. G. Rossetti Let. 25 Nov. (1965) I. 278 Hughes..gave them a look up about it. 1888‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms I. xiv. 191 We foraged up Aileen's mare, and made it up to ride over to George Storefield's, and gave him a look-up.
2. The action of (or a facility for) looking something up in a dictionary, file, etc.; retrieval of information about items in an ordered collection. Freq. attrib.
1948Math. Tables & Other Aids to Computation III. 157 Operations such as division, square root, table look-up, etc., where the required time cannot be predicted. 1958A. D. Booth in Aspects of Translation 88 All that had been produced was a programme which would enable a computing machine to perform look-up operations which a human translator would perform with a dictionary. 1960E. Delavenay Introd. Machine Transl. vi. 93 An appreciable amount of time will thus be saved in dictionary look-up. 1964Discovery Oct. 55/1 The programme does this in several stages: (1) a dictionary look-up which provides information about parts of speech, [etc.]. 1967Cox & Grose Organiz. Bibliogr. Rec. by Computer iv. 79 These citations are then found in the main file by a ‘look-up’ procedure. 1971A. J. Aitken in R. A. Wisbey Computer in Lit. & Ling. Res. 14 In addition, TLF also has a computer ‘look-up’ which in effect lists certain predictable collocations of certain common function words so that the computer can subdivide its examples according to these collocations. |