# makeup
## English
### Alternative forms

* make-up, make up

### Etymology

Deverbal of make up.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmeɪkʌp/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪkʌp

### Noun

makeup (usually uncountable, plural makeups)
* (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.
* (countable, uncountable) Cosmetics; colorants and other substances applied to the skin to alter its appearance.
    She is wearing a lot of makeup.
* (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.
* (education) A test given to students allowing them to repeat failed material.
* (finance) In a NIMCRUT, an amount distributed from the trust's income in subsequent years to make up for a present shortfall.

#### Usage notes

The alternative spelling make-up is favored by the Oxford English Dictionary and thus is often considered to be British, while makeup, being preferred by Merriam-Webster's dictionary, is the generally accepted American spelling and the most common form currently in Google Ngrams.

#### Synonyms

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

#### Hyponyms

* (cosmetics): See also Thesaurus:toiletry

#### Derived terms

* face without makeup
* kabuki makeup syndrome
* makeup artist
* makeup call
* makeup editor
* makeup remover
* mineral makeup

#### Descendants

* ⇒ Portuguese: make

#### Translations
### Verb

makeup (third-person singular simple present makeups, present participle makeuping or makeupping, simple past and past participle makeuped or makeupped)
* Alternative form of make up (“(ambitransitive) 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.

### References

* ↑ In reference with Jean-Claude Corbeil/Ariane Archambault: Visual Dictionary, Look up a Word from a Picture, Find the Picture from a Word. (New York, USA / Oxford, UK, 1987)
* ↑ makeup, make-up, make up - “make*up”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. - Google Ngram Viewer

### Anagrams

* upmake

## Swedish
### Noun

makeup c
* makeup (cosmetics)
    Synonym: smink n
    Synonym: kosmetika c

#### See also

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

### References

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