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Definition of Makeup

1. Noun. Cosmetics applied to the face to improve or change your appearance.

2. Noun. An event that is substituted for a previously cancelled event. "The two teams played a makeup one week later"

3. Noun. The way in which someone or something is composed.

Definition of Makeup

1. 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.

Definition of Makeup

1. Noun. An item's composition. ¹

2. Noun. Cosmetics; colorants and other substances applied to the skin to improve its appearance. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Makeup

1. the way in which the parts or ingredients of something are put together [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Makeup

makes over makes time makes tracks makes up makes use makes waves makeshift makeshifts makespan makespans

makest makestrife maketh makeunder makeunders makeup (current term) makeup artist makeup artists makeups makeweight

makeweights makgeolli makhaira makhairas makhana makhanas makhani makhonee maki maki zushi

Literary usage of Makeup

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Heredity in Relation to Eugenics by Charles Benedict Davenport (1911)
"The Neuropathic makeup.—We have seen (page 77) that imbecility, epilepsy and many forms of insanity are due merely to the absence of some factor. ..."

2. Adventure Guide to Tampa Bay and Florida's West Coast by Chelle Koster Walton (2003)
"... Tampa metro- polite to the Everglades backwoods Miccosukee, the West Coast embraces a range of people as diverse as its terrain. Natural makeup ..."

3. Bible Doctrine: A Treatise on the Great Doctrines of the Bible, Pertaining by Daniel Kauffman (1914)
"His makeup In the Image of His Maker.—"God created man in his own image. ... In our moral and spiritual makeup we resemble him whom we follow. ..."

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