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Makeup   /mˈeɪkˌəp/   Listen
noun
make-up, makeup  n.  
1.
The way in which the parts of anything are put together. "The unthinking masses are necessarily teleological in their mental make-up."
2.
The constituent parts of anything; as, the makeup of the new congress was predominantly conservative.
3.
Cosmetics applied to the face, such as lipstick, facial power, or eye shadow.
4.
The aggregate of cosmetics and costume worn by an actor.
5.
The effect or appearance of the wearing of makeup (in senses 3 or 4); often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character; as, her makeup was very realistic.
6.
An action that is taken to fulfill a requirement not accomplished at the expected time, such as a make-up examination; as, the student took his make-up on Saturday.
7.
(Printing) The appearance of a page of a publication, specifically the type style of the text and the spatial arrangement of the text, illustrations, advertising material etc., on the page.
8.
(Printing) The art or process of arranging the portions of a printed publication on the pages for esthetic reasons or for optimal effect on the reader.





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"Makeup" Quotes from Famous Books



... is something in the makeup of certain lads calculated to draw them on, when there is an element of uncertainty in the air. Thad had been curious to explore this island before; and now that he had seen signs of others having ...
— The Boy Scouts' First Camp Fire - or, Scouting with the Silver Fox Patrol • Herbert Carter
... by the evening of the Governor's Reception—upon the morning following which the mooted bill was to come up—he offered an impression so haggard and worn that an actor might have studied him for a makeup as a young statesman going ...
— In the Arena - Stories of Political Life • Booth Tarkington
... try to come Miss Innocence over me," he said easily. "I sized you two up from the first minute, and I've been watching you ever since. The other one could get away with the housekeeper's part O.K., but any one could see through your makeup. What are the bulls ...
— No. 13 Washington Square • Leroy Scott
... chromosomes—a speculation which I must insist does not pretend to be more than a guess but has at least the interest of being the first guess that we have ever been in position to make as to how many factors go towards the makeup of the ...
— A Critique of the Theory of Evolution • Thomas Hunt Morgan
... these terrible struggles and mental agonies, inevitable because of the very nature of his heredity and education and environment. Although as we know, he came of gentle-folk, there was much of the Russian peasant in Tolstoi's makeup. His organism, both as to physical and mental elements, was like a piece of solid iron, untempered by the refining processes of an inherent spirituality. His never-ceasing struggle for attainment of the degree ...
— Cosmic Consciousness • Ali Nomad


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