makeup
or make-up
noun
Origin of makeup
OTHER WORDS FROM makeup
non·make·up, adjectiveWords nearby makeup
Definition for make-up (2 of 2)
verb (used with object), made, mak·ing.
- to name (the trump).
- to take a trick with (a card).
- Bridge. to fulfill or achieve (a contract or bid).
- to shuffle (the cards).
- to recognize or identify: Any cop in town will make you as soon as you walk down the street.
- to charge or cause to be charged with a crime: The police expect to make a couple of suspects soon.
verb (used without object), made, mak·ing.
noun
Verb Phrases
- to write out or complete, as a bill or check.
- to establish; prove.
- to decipher; discern.
- to imply, suggest, or impute: He made me out to be a liar.
- to manage; succeed: How are you making out in your new job?
- Slang. to engage in kissing and caressing; neck.
- Slang. to have sexual intercourse.
- Chiefly Pennsylvania German. to turn off or extinguish (especially a light or fire): Make the light out.
- to remodel; alter: to make over a dress; to make over a page layout.
- to transfer the title of (property); convey: After she retired she made over her property to her children and moved to Florida.
- to go toward; approach: to make for home.
- to lunge at; attack.
- to help to promote or maintain: This incident will not make for better understanding between the warring factions.
- to run away; depart hastily: The only witness to the accident made off before the police arrived.
- Nautical. to stand off from a coast, especially a lee shore.
- (of parts) to constitute; compose; form.
- to put together; construct; compile.
- to concoct; invent.
- Also make up for. to compensate for; make good.
- to complete.
- to put in order; arrange: The maid will make up the room.
- to conclude; decide.
- to settle amicably, as differences.
- to become reconciled, as after a quarrel.
- Printing. to arrange set type, illustrations, etc., into columns or pages.
- to dress in appropriate costume and apply cosmetics for a part on the stage.
- to apply cosmetics.
- to adjust or balance, as accounts; prepare, as statements.
- Education. to repeat (a course or examination that one has failed).
- Education. to take an examination that one had been unable to take when first given, usually because of absence.
- to specify and indicate the layout or arrangement of (columns, pages, etc., of matter to be printed).
- Atlantic States. (of the weather or clouds) to develop or gather: It's making up for a storm.
- Atlantic States. (of the sea) to become turbulent: If the sea makes up, row toward land.
- Informal. to try to become friendly with; fawn on.
- to make advances to; flirt with: He makes up to every new woman in the office.
Origin of make
1SYNONYMS FOR make
synonym study for make
OTHER WORDS FROM make
mak·a·ble, adjectiveWords related to make-up
Example sentences from the Web for make-up
Her make-up includes two tattoo-like designs on both temples.
Rivers was reportedly having her hair and make-up done, the room had been specially decorated, and her two dogs had visited her.
SPF is in our moisturizers, lip balms, eye creams, and make-up.
When the girls did seem to have some interest in science, it was directed towards the science of make-up.
This definitely puts the kybosh on the make-up rumors, as there is no way Harry could marry a movie star.
Some of the aviators were explaining the make-up of their machines, and others were making try-out flights.
Airship Andy |Frank V. WebsterBut the strong element of common-sense in her make-up counselled her to hold her tongue.
The Bandbox |Louis Joseph VanceWhat he had just witnessed would seem to refute the idea of either costume or make-up having any bearing upon the case.
The Boy Scouts Book of Stories |VariousIt all belonged to the make-up of the life of elegance: there was nothing new about it.
The Glimpses of the Moon |Edith WhartonHilda sat on the single chair the place contained, in the dress and make-up of the last scene.
The Path of a Star |Mrs. Everard Cotes (AKA Sara Jeannette Duncan)
British Dictionary definitions for make-up (1 of 3)
noun
- the cosmetics, false hair, etc, used by an actor to highlight his features or adapt his appearance
- the art or result of applying such cosmetics
verb make up (adverb)
- to set in order and balance (accounts)
- to draw up (accounting statements)
- to make friendly overtures to
- to flirt with
British Dictionary definitions for make-up (2 of 3)
verb makes, making or made (mainly tr)
- to win a trick with (a specified card)
- to shuffle (the cards)
- bridge to fulfil (a contract) by winning the necessary number of tricks
- informal to be successful in doing something
- (foll by with) slang to have sexual intercourse
- slang to inject a narcotic drug
- to have sexual intercourse
- archaic to engage in courtship
- to have sexual intercourse with someone
- archaic to engage in courtship with someone
- another term for urinate
- (of a boat, hull, etc) to let in water
noun
- informal out for profit or conquest
- slang in search of a sexual partner
Derived forms of make
makable, adjectiveWord Origin for make
British Dictionary definitions for make-up (3 of 3)
noun archaic
Derived forms of make
makeless, adjectiveWord Origin for make
Idioms and Phrases with make-up
In addition to the idioms beginning with make
- make a beeline for
- make a break for
- make a bundle
- make a clean breast of
- make a clean sweep
- make a comeback
- make a crack
- make a date
- make a day of it
- make a dent in
- make a difference
- make advances
- make a face
- make a federal case of
- make a fool of
- make a fortune
- make a fuss
- make a go of
- make a hash of
- make a hit
- make a hole in
- make a killing
- make a laughingstock of
- make a living
- make allowance for
- make a long story short
- make amends
- make a monkey out of
- make a mountain out of a molehill
- make a name for oneself
- make an appearance
- make an appointment
- make an ass of
- make an end of
- make an example of
- make an exception
- make an exhibition of oneself
- make a night of it
- make an impression
- make a note of
- make a nuisance of oneself
- make a pass at
- make a pig of oneself
- make a pile
- make a pitch for
- make a play for
- make a point of
- make a practice of
- make arrangements for
- make a run for
- make a scene
- make as if
- make a silk purse
- make a stab at
- make a stand
- make a statement
- make a stink
- make a virtue of necessity
- make away with
- make bail
- make believe
- make bold
- make book
- make bricks without straw
- make capital out of
- make conversation
- make demands on
- make do
- make ends meet
- make eyes at
- make fast work of
- make for
- make free with
- make friends
- make fun of
- make good
- make good time
- make great strides
- make haste
- make hay while the sun shines
- make head or tail of
- make headway
- make heavy weather
- make history
- make inroads into
- make it
- make it hot for
- make it one's business
- make it snappy
- make it up
- make it with
- make light of
- make like
- make little of
- make love
- make mincemeat of
- make mischief
- make much of
- make my day
- make no bones about
- make no difference
- make no mistake
- make nothing of
- make off
- make one's bed and lie in it
- make one's blood boil
- make one's blood run cold
- make one's day
- make one's ears burn
- make oneself at home
- make oneself scarce
- make one's flesh creep
- make one's hair stand on end
- make one's head spin
- make one sick
- make one's mark
- make one's mouth water
- make one's peace with
- make one's point
- make one's way
- make or break
- make out
- make out like a bandit
- make over
- make peace
- make ready
- make rounds
- make sail
- make sense
- make short work of
- make someone look good
- make something of
- make sport of
- make stick
- make sure
- make the bed
- make the best of it
- make the dust fly
- make the grade
- make the most of
- make the rounds
- make the scene
- make the sparks fly
- make time
- make tracks
- make up
- make up for lost time
- make up one's mind
- make up to
- make use of
- make waves
- make way
- make whoopee
- make with
also see:
- absence makes the heart grow fonder
- all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
- can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
- can't make head or tail of
- kiss and make up
- many hands make light work
- might makes right
- on the make
- practice makes perfect
- put in (make) an appearance
- put the make on
- run for it, make a
- that makes two of us
- two wrongs do not make a right
- what makes one tick
Also see undermade.