noun
Meaning 1
An attempt to retrieve data.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- My database lookup failed because I misspelled the word.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
lookup
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈlʊkˌʌp/
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CMU ARPABET: L UH1 K AH0 P Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
The process of locating a term in a reference work.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
Misspelling of look up.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, misspelling
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- they wrote a program to do a table lookup
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: search
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: operation
History
Etymology
Deverbal from look up.