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Makeup   /mˈeɪkˌəp/   Listen
Makeup

noun
1.
Cosmetics applied to the face to improve or change your appearance.  Synonyms: make-up, war paint.
2.
An event that is substituted for a previously cancelled event.  Synonym: make-up.  "The two teams played a makeup one week later"
3.
The way in which someone or something is composed.  Synonyms: composition, constitution, make-up, physical composition.





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"Makeup" Quotes from Famous Books



... little information concerning the incidents of Rashi's life, but also there are only a few sources from which we can learn about his mental makeup and introduce ourselves, so to speak, into the circle of his thoughts and ideas. Generally one must seek the man in his work. But into writings so objective as those of a commentator who does not even exert himself to set forth his method and principles in a preface, a man is not apt to put much ...
— Rashi • Maurice Liber
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... 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
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... of education, the goals towards which all teaching must strive, the fundamental question to be answered is, "What have we to work with?" "What is the makeup with which children start in life?" Given a certain nature, certain definite results are possible; but if the nature is different, the results must of necessity differ. The possibility of education or of teaching ...
— How to Teach • George Drayton Strayer and Naomi Norsworthy
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Words linked to "Makeup" :   structure, greasepaint, blackface, lip rouge, lip-gloss, composition, lipstick, rouge, kohl, blusher, event, phenotype, eyeliner, war paint, constitution, eyeshadow, property, eyebrow pencil, genetic constitution, karyotype, texture, genotype, physical composition, paint, make up, face powder, cosmetic, make-up, grain, mascara


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