makeup

• make-up, make up

Deverbal from 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.
5. (finance) In a NIMCRUT, an amount distributed from the trust's income in subsequent years to make up for a present shortfall.

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] and the most common form currently in Google Ngrams. See Talk:makeup.

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

• (cosmetics): See also Thesaurus:toiletry

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)