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English Dictionary: makeup by the DICT Development Group
2 results for makeup
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
makeup
n
  1. cosmetics applied to the face to improve or change your appearance
    Synonym(s): makeup, make-up, war paint
  2. an event that is substituted for a previously cancelled event; "he missed the test and had to take a makeup"; "the two teams played a makeup one week later"
    Synonym(s): makeup, make-up
  3. the way in which someone or something is composed
    Synonym(s): constitution, composition, physical composition, makeup, make-up
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Make-up \Make"-up`\, n.
      The way in which the parts of anything are put together;
      often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc.,
      in personating a character.
  
               The unthinking masses are necessarily teleological in
               their mental make-up.                              --L. F. Ward.
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