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verb

(tr) to discover (something required to be known) by resorting to a work of reference, such as a dictionary
(intr) to increase, as in quality or value
things are looking up
to have respect (for)
I've always wanted a girlfriend I could look up to
(tr) to visit or make contact with (a person)
I'll look you up when I'm in town

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Idioms and Phrases

Search for in a book or other source, as in I told her to look up the word in the dictionary . [Late 1600s]

Call on or visit, as in I'm going to look up my friend in Chicago . [Mid-1800s]

Become better, improve, as in Business is finally looking up . [c. 1800]

look up to . Admire, respect, as in The students really looked up to Mr. Jones . [Early 1700s]

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Another worker halfway through cleaning the back window of a car looked up.

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The sun burst through after lunch and that adage about looking up to the sky, rather than down at the pitch, rang true as Smith and Webster patiently steadied the ship for Australia.

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Standing beside the metal fence now surrounding the block of flats he once called home, Jimmy Vallance looks up at the metal shutter bolted to his living room window.

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"Max is such an amazing driver and so many people look up to him. It's a shame that something like that continues to occur."

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“I could really feel like I was looking up to myself, and that felt super odd.”

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