makeup

• make-up

From the verb phrase make up.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪkʌp/

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• Rhymes: -eɪkʌp

makeup (usually uncountable, plural makeups)

1. (countable, uncountable) An item's composition.

   To understand how a nuclear reactor works, we must first look at its makeup.

   • 2005, Bennett Fairorth, Philadelphia Holidays 2004, Turkish Pleasures 1997 (page 269)

     After the size and makeup of Congress was decided by the Founding Fathers, it was time to lawmake.

2. (countable, uncountable) Cosmetics; colorants and other substances applied to the skin to alter its appearance.

   She is wearing a lot of makeup.

3. (manufacturing) Replacement; material used to make up for the amount that has been used up.
   • 2005, William C. Whitman, William M. Johnson, John A. Tomczyk, Refrigeration & Air Conditioning Technology, page 1208:

     When the water level drops, the float ball drops with it and opens the valve to the makeup water supply.

4. (education) A test given to students allowing them to repeat failed material.

The alternative spelling make-up is favored by the Oxford Dictionary and thus is often considered to be British, while makeup, being preferred by Merriam Webster's dictionary, is the generally accepted American spelling.[1]

• (composition): configuration, constitution, form; see also Thesaurus:composition
• (cosmetics): beauty products, cosmetics, product, slap, war paint

• (cosmetics): See also Thesaurus:toiletry

• makeup editor

makeup (third-person singular simple present makeups, present participle makeuping or makeupping, simple past and past participle makeuped or makeupped)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To put makeup on (someone or something).
   • 2005, Wendy Roberts, Dating Can Be Deadly, Red Dress Ink, →ISBN, page 229:

     I raided my closet and left Clay in my living room while I changed and makeuped in the bathroom.

   • 2009, Lou Manfredo, chapter 7, in Rizzo’s War, New York, N.Y.: Minotaur Books, →ISBN, page 122:

     “If we get started showering, shaving, powdering, combing, and makeupping, we just may be able to make the eleven o’clock mass at Regina Pacis.”

   • 2014, Michael Yankoski, “Appendix B: Almost Answered: A Q&A with the Author”, in The Sacred Year: Mapping the Soulscape of Spiritual Practice—How Contemplating Apples, Living in a Cave, and Befriending a Dying Woman Revived My Life, W Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 335:

     This isn’t about plastic surgery, image management, or makeupping the facade.

   • 2014, Megan McCafferty, Jessica Darling’s It List 2: The (Totally Not) Guaranteed Guide to Friends, Foes & Faux Friends, New York, N.Y.; Boston, Mass.: Poppy, →ISBN, page 89:

     And when my guests and I got bored with stuffing our mouths, makeupping our faces, and rotting our brains, we had Bethany’s collection of classic teen comedies all queued up and ready to roll.

   • 2016, Mari Ruti, Feminist Film Theory and Pretty Woman, Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, page 173:

     When Gracie emerges from her labor-intensive makeover in an airplane hangar—where she has been plucked, waxed, styled, makeuped, and dressed by an army of professionals—all eyes, including the stunned eyes of her love-interest-to-be Eric, are on her.

• upmake

makeup c

1. makeup (cosmetics)

   Synonym: smink n

   Synonym: kosmetika c

• sminka (“to put on makeup, to put makeup on”)

• makeup in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• makeup in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)