See Also: make-believe(dictionary)
make(3)(dictionary)
make-do(dictionary)
Make(medicine)
make-over(dictionary)
Make-up(finance)
make-up(dictionary)
make(2)(dictionary)
Make or Buy(money)
make-believe(dictionary)

make-up (iou)



make-up noun. E19.
[from make up s.v. MAKE verb.]
The manner in which something is made up, put together, or composed; composition, constitution; a person's character or temperament. E19.
H. Spencer Something in the pattern or make-up of their clothes. J. Archer Roy Jenkins had announced the make-up of his shadow team.
a. An appearance of face, dress, etc., adopted for a theatrical performance or other public appearance; the action or process of making up with cosmetics etc. M19.
George Eliot The Zouaves, with their wondrous make-ups as women.
b. Cosmetics (as lipstick, powder, etc.) used in making up the face etc. L19.
R. Jarrell Her lips were painted a purplish maroon; she had put on no other make-up.
c. In a television studio, on a film-set, etc.: the place where performers etc. are made up; (the work of) the people who make up performers etc. colloq. M20.
Printing. The process of organizing text and other matter into pages; matter so made up; (preparation of) the layout of a page. Also, an editor's selection of articles to form a number of a periodical. M19.
A made-up story; an invention, a fiction. M19.
N. Marsh I'm quite sure it's all a make-up. They think it's true.
Something (esp. food) made up from odds and ends. colloq. & dial. M19.
Replacement of water lost from a boiler etc. by evaporation, leakage, etc.; water added for this purpose. M20.
The adding up and balancing of accounts at the end of a certain period. M20.
A resit. US. M20.