lookup

noun
/ˈlʊkˌʌp/

Etymology

Deverbal from look up.

Definitions

  1. An attempt to retrieve data.

    • My database lookup failed because I misspelled the word.
  2. The process of locating a term in a reference work.

    • For some terms there is no Index entry that approaches the current spelling, making look-up difficult.
  3. Misspelling of look up.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for lookup. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA