Originally Posted By: Bohemian_Cur
I assume that you find nothing wrong with the term "look up", because we know it to mean find?


Actually, it doens't mean "find". I was going to say it means "search for" but that's not quite right, either. It means something more like "search for in some source in which you expect to find it, but without the certainty of being able to find it". "Look up" is a little more compact.