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Lookup vs Fund - What's the difference?

lookup | fund |

As nouns the difference between lookup and fund

is that lookup is an attempt to retrieve data while fund is discovery, finding, find (something that is found).

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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    fund

    English

    (wikipedia fund)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sum or source of money.
    • the fund of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing corporation, etc.
    a fund for the maintenance of underprivileged students
  • An organization managing such money.
  • A money-management operation, such as a mutual fund.
    • Several major funds were declared insolvent recently.
  • A large supply of something to be drawn upon.
    • He drew on his immense fund of knowledge.
  • * Macaulay
    • an inexhaustible fund of stories

    Derived terms

    (derived terms) * balanced fund * bond fund * closed-end fund * equity fund * feeder fund * fund of funds * growth fund * hedge fund * income fund * index fund * load fund * master fund * mutual fund * open-end fund * no-load fund * pension fund * stock fund * trust fund

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To pay for.