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Meaning of makeup

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

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

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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