makeup

makeup

See also: make up, make-up, and Make-up

English

Alternative forms

• make-up

Etymology

From the verb phrase make up.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪkʌp/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -eɪkʌp

Noun

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.

Usage notes

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]

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

• makeup editor

Translations

an item's composition

Azerbaijani: tərkib (az) Bulgarian: съста́в (bg) m (sǎstáv), структу́ра (bg) f (struktúra) Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Dutch: samenstelling (nl) Esperanto: konsisto Estonian: koosseis Finnish: koostumus (fi) French: constitution (fr) Galician: composición (gl) f Hungarian: felépítés (hu), elrendezés (hu), összeállítás (hu), szerkezet (hu), struktúra (hu), (build, physique, constitution) alkat (hu), (photography) kikészítés (hu), (printing) tördelés Polish: układ (pl) m Russian: соста́в (ru) m (sostáv), строе́ние (ru) n (strojénije), устро́йство (ru) n (ustrójstvo), укла́д (ru) m (uklád) Spanish: constitución (es) f

cosmetics; colorants and other substances applied to the skin to alter its appearance

Afrikaans: plooipleister Arabic: مَاكْيَاج‎ m (makyāj), بُنْيَة‎ f (bunya) Gulf Arabic: مكياج‎ m (mikyāj) Hijazi Arabic: مِكْياج‎ m (mikyāj), مَيْكَپ‎ m (meikap) Armenian: շպար (hy) (špar), գրիմ (hy) (grim), մակիյաժ (hy) (makiyaž) Asturian: maquillaxe m Azerbaijani: makiyaj, qrim Belarusian: макія́ж m (makijáž), грым m (hrym) Bulgarian: грим (bg) m (grim) Catalan: maquillatge (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 化妝／化妆 (zh) (huàzhuāng) Czech: makeup m, líčidla n pl Danish: makeup, sminke Dutch: schmink (nl) m, make-up (nl) m Esperanto: ŝminko Estonian: jumestus, meik (colloquial), grimm (performing arts and acting) Finnish: meikki (fi), pakkeli (fi), ehoste (fi) French: maquillage (fr) m Galician: maquillaxe f Georgian: მაკიაჟი (maḳiaži) German: Schminke (de) f, Make-up (de) n Greek: μακιγιάζ (el) n (makigiáz), μακιγιάρισμα (el) n (makigiárisma) Hebrew: אִפּוּר / איפור‎ m (ipúr) Hindi: शृंगार m (śŕṅgār), श्रृंगार सामग्री f (śrŕṅgār sāmagrī) Hungarian: smink (hu) Icelandic: farði m, meik (is) n Ido: fardo (io) Irish: dreachadh m, smideadh m Italian: trucco (it) m Japanese: 化粧 (ja) (けしょう, keshō), メイク (meiku), メイクアップ (meikuappu) Kazakh: макияж (makiäj), грим (grim) Khmer: គ្រឿងសំអាង (krɨəng sɑmʼaang), សម្ភារៈមុខ (sɑmphiərĕəʼmuk) Korean: 화장(化粧) (ko) (hwajang), 메이크업 (ko) (meikeueop) Kyrgyz: макияж (ky) (makiyaj), грим (ky) (grim) Latin: offūcia f Latvian: grims m, meikaps m Lithuanian: makiažas m, grimas m Macedonian: шминка f (šminka) Maori: panipani, whakanako Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: Bokmål: sminke m or f Persian: آرایش‎ (fa) (ârâyeš), گریم‎ (fa) (gerim), ماکیاژ‎ (mâkiyâž) Polish: makijaż (pl) m Portuguese: maquiagem (pt) f (Brazil), maquilagem (pt) f (Brazil), maquilhagem (pt) f Romanian: machiaj (ro) n Russian: макия́ж (ru) m (makijáž), грим (ru) m (grim), гримиро́вка (ru) f (grimiróvka) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: шми̑нка f Roman: šmȋnka (sh) f Slovak: mejkap m Slovene: ličilo n pl Spanish: maquillaje (es) m, afeite (es) Swahili: kipodozi (sw) Swedish: smink (sv) n, kosmetika (sv) c, make-up (sv) Tajik: ороиш (tg) (oroyiš), грим (grim), макияж (makiyaž) Thai: เครื่องสำอาง (krʉ̂ʉang-sǎm-aang) Tibetan: མཛེས་སྤྱད (mdzes spyad) Turkish: makyaj (tr) Turkmen: makiýaž Ukrainian: макія́ж m (makijáž), грим m (hrym) Uzbek: makiyaj (uz), grim (uz) Vietnamese: đồ trang điểm Welsh: colur (cy) m Yiddish: קאָסמעטיק‎ f (kosmetik)

manufacturing: replacement; material used to make up for the amount that has been used up

Hungarian: utántöltés, pótlás (hu), kiegészítés (hu), feltöltés (hu)

education: test given to students allowing them to repeat failed material

Hungarian: pótteszt, pótdolgozat, pótzárthelyi

Verb

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.

References

1. 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)

Anagrams

• upmake

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Swedish

Noun

makeup c

1. makeup (cosmetics)

   Synonym: smink n

   Synonym: kosmetika c

Declension

Declension of makeup
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	makeup	makeupen	makeuper	makeuperna
Genitive	makeups	makeupens	makeupers	makeupernas

See also

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

References

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