Makeup
[meɪkʌp] or ['mek,ʌp]
Definition
(noun.) cosmetics applied to the face to improve or change your appearance.
(noun.) 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'.
Editor: Pierre--From WordNet
Examples
- They assume ends lying outside our activities; ends foreign to the concrete makeup of the situation; ends which issue from some outside source. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The skilled tunnel workmen are men of character and ability, usually young, of good intelligence and sound of body, without a streak of fear or cowardice in their makeup. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Typed by Blanche