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Lookup vs Handbook - What's the difference?

lookup | handbook |

As nouns the difference between lookup and handbook

is that lookup is an attempt to retrieve data while handbook is a topically organized book of reference on a certain field of knowledge, disregarding the size of it.

lookup

English

Noun

(lookups)
  • An attempt to retrieve data.
    • My database lookup failed because I misspelled the word.

    Related terms

    * look up

    Anagrams

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    handbook

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia handbook) (en noun)
  • A topically organized book of reference on a certain field of knowledge, disregarding the size of it.

    • Coordinate terms

    * manual