# makeup

Pronunciation: say "MAYK-up" /ˈmeɪkʌp/

## Noun

1. Cosmetics: tinted and other preparations put on the face or body to change the way it looks.
   - Simple: Colored creams, powders, and other products that people put on their skin to change how they look.
   - _The actress sat for an hour while artists applied her makeup._
   - _Stage performers wear heavy makeup so their features read from the back row._
2. The combination of parts or materials from which something is formed.
   - Simple: The different parts or materials that something is made of.
   - _Scientists examined the chemical makeup of the meteorite fragment._
   - _The makeup of the committee shifted after the election._
3. An examination offered to students so they can re-attempt material they missed or failed the first time.
   - Simple: A second test that lets a student try again after failing or missing the first one.
   - _Because he was hospitalized during finals, the professor scheduled a makeup for him._
   - _Students who provide a doctor's note may sign up for a makeup._
4. Material supplied to replace the amount that has been used up or lost in a process.
   - Simple: Extra material added to replace an amount that has been used up.
   - _Operators continuously feed makeup into the boiler to replace evaporated water._
   - _The system draws makeup from a reservoir whenever the fluid level drops._
6. An amount distributed from a NIMCRUT's income in later years to compensate beneficiaries for a shortfall in an earlier year.
   - Simple: Money that a special kind of trust pays out in later years to cover what it could not pay before.
   - _When the trust's income rebounded, the trustee distributed a makeup for the prior deficit._
   - _The agreement allows a makeup in any year the trust earns more than its required payout._

## Verb

5. Alternative form of make up. As a verb, the one-word spelling is nonstandard and usually treated as an error. — Alternative form of make up (“(ambitransitive) to put makeup on (someone or something)”).
   - Simple: Another way of writing make up, meaning to put makeup on someone. As a verb, it is usually counted as a misspelling.
   - _Professional stylists makeup the cast before each performance._
   - _They wanted to makeup the children as woodland creatures for the school play._

## Origin

'Makeup' is formed from the verb 'make up.' The cosmetics sense is a semantic loan from French 'maquillage,' from 'maquiller' meaning 'to make up' or 'fabricate.'

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/makeup (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).