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Make-up   /meɪk-əp/   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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"Make-up" Quotes from Famous Books



... don't see how you could possibly do any of it. Come now, Freddy, ''fess up.' You've been playing the gentleman in this enterprise and all this make-up is for our benefit, ...
— They of the High Trails • Hamlin Garland
... answer to this question, and yet she was full of deep longing to escape from her present environment, to get away from this Zwicker woman, to whom the whole affair was merely "an interesting case," and whose sympathy, if she had any such thing in her make-up, would certainly not ...
— The German Classics Of The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 • Various
... It is hard for a young man of twenty to gain any thing by life in the barracks; unless he is depraved, he detests it. You can generally judge of a soldier's morality by his hatred of his uniform. Unfortunate wretches or worthless scamps,—such is the make-up of the French army. This ought not to be the case,—but so it is. Question a hundred thousand men, and not one will ...
— What is Property? - An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government • P. J. Proudhon
... smarter to make up than not to. Times change. You don't wear hoopskirts because our magnificent Grandmother Ballinger did. You dress as smartly as the Burlingame crowd. Why does your soul turn green at make-up? All these people you look down upon because our families were rich and important in the fifties are more up-to-date than you are, although I will admit that none of them has the woman-of-the-world air of the smartest New York women —not that terribly respectable inner set in New York—Aunt Mattie's ...
— The Sisters-In-Law • Gertrude Atherton
... two parents, one-fourth from his four grandparents, one-eighth from his great-grandparents, one-sixteenth from his great-great grandparents, and so on by diminishing fractions to his primordial ancestors, the sum of all these fractions added together contributing to the whole of the inherited make-up. The trouble with this generalization, from the modern Mendelian point of view, is that it fails to define what "characters" one would get in the one-half that came from one's parents, or the one-fourth from one's ...
— The Pivot of Civilization • Margaret Sanger


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