makeup

Forms

1.An item's composition.
- To understand how a nuclear reactor works, we must first look at its makeup.
- After the size and makeup of Congress was decided by the Founding Fathers, it was time to lawmake.
2.Cosmetics; colorants and other substances applied to the skin to alter its appearance.
- She is wearing a lot of makeup.
3.Replacement; material used to make up for the amount that has been used up.
- When the water level drops, the float ball drops with it and opens the valve to the makeup water supply.
4.A test given to students allowing them to repeat failed material.
- “Will I get a chance to take a makeup? My mother paid for the exam.”

1.Alternative form of make up (“(ambitransitive) to put makeup on (someone or something)”).
- This isn’t about plastic surgery, image management, or makeupping the facade.
- I raided my closet and left Clay in my living room while I changed and makeuped in the bathroom.
- “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.”

Uncommon· #3459

Deverbal from make up.

Noun sense 2 is a semantic loan from French maquillage, from maquiller (“to make up, fabricate”).