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Definitions: Made-up |
Made-upAdjective1. Formed or conceived by the imagination; "a fabricated excuse for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional character"; "used fictitious names"; "a made-up story". 2. (British) having been paved. 3. Marked by the use of makeup; "heavily made-up eyes". 4. Formed by fitting or joining components together. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "made-up" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1607. (references) |
Synonyms: Made-upSynonyms: assembled (adj), built(a) (adj), fabricated (adj), fancied (adj), fictional (adj), fictitious (adj), invented (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Made-up |
| English words defined with "made-up": fabricated, fancied, fictional, fictitious ♦ invented. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Man just wants to forget the bad stuff, and believe in the made-up good stuff. (Rashômon; writing credit: Ryunosuke Akutagawa; Akira Kurosawa) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Made-Up (2002) | |
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Books | |
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Business | New Zealand's population (3.8 million) is made-up of approximately four-fifths European and one-fifth Polynesian. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Made-up" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Made-up" is used about 82 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 82 | 36,594 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "made-up": heavily-made-up, over-made-up. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "made-up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 化妆 (Making-up). (various references) | |
Dutch | afgepast geweven. (various references) | |
German | aufgeholt (made-up-for). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 作り話 (fable, fabrication, fiction, made-up story, myth), 作りé¡" (affected look, made-up face). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ã¤ãã‚ŠãŒãŠ (affected look, made-up face), ã¤ãã‚Šã°ãªã— (fable, fabrication, fiction, made-up story, myth). (various references) | |
Korean | 구성하ëŠ" (Composed, Constitutive). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ade-upmay.(various references) | |
Thai | ซึ่งสร้างเรื่à¸à¸‡à¸‚ึ้น. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Made-up" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Majedul, mameluk. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-m-p-u" | |
-1 letter: umped. | |
-2 letters: aped, dame, damp, duma, dump, dupe, made, maud, mead, puma. | |
-3 letters: amp, amu, ape, dam, dap, due, dup, eau, emu, mad, mae, map, med, mud, pad, pam, pea, ped, pud, ump. | |
-4 letters: ad, ae, am, de, ed, em, ma, me, mu, pa, pe, um, up. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-m-p-u" | |
+2 letters: campused, gazumped, plumaged, undamped, unmapped. | |
+3 letters: amplitude, amputated, galumphed, harumphed, mudcapped, unclamped. | |
+4 letters: amplitudes, deutoplasm, epicardium, harrumphed, humpbacked, multipaned, praesidium, subsampled, unexampled, unhampered, unimpaired. | |
+5 letters: antependium, deutoplasms, manipulated, pandemonium, pericardium, pompadoured, praesidiums, premeasured, proctodaeum, promulgated, pseudomonad, pseudomonas, unamplified. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 64 65 2D 75 70 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01100100 01100101 00101101 01110101 01110000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a d e - u p |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 0064 0065 002D 0075 0070 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47677071158782 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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