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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: 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" [syn: makeup, make-up]
2: the way in which someone or something is composed [syn: constitution, composition, physical composition, makeup, make-up]
3: cosmetics applied to the face to improve or change your appearance [syn: makeup, make-up, war paint]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

also makeup Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Make-up consists of things such as lipstick, eye shadow, and powder which some women put on their faces to make themselves look more attractive or which actors use to change or improve their appearance. Normally she wore little make-up... 2. Someone's make-up is their nature and the various qualities in their character. There was some fatal flaw in his makeup, and as time went on he lapsed into long silences or became off-hand. = personality N-UNCOUNT: with supp, usu poss N 3. The make-up of something consists of its different parts and the way these parts are arranged. The ideological make-up of the unions is now radically different from what it had been. N-UNCOUNT: with supp