makeup

Etymology

From the verb phrase make up.

noun

1. (countable, uncountable) 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. 2005, Bennett Fairorth, Philadelphia Holidays 2004, Turkish Pleasures 1997, page 269
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.
   When the water level drops, the float ball drops with it and opens the valve to the makeup water supply. 2005, William C. Whitman, William M. Johnson, John A. Tomczyk, Refrigeration & Air Conditioning Technology, page 1208
4. (education) A test given to students allowing them to repeat failed material.
5. (finance) In a NIMCRUT, an amount distributed from the trust's income in subsequent years to make up for a present shortfall.

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive) To put makeup on (someone or something).
   I raided my closet and left Clay in my living room while I changed and makeuped in the bathroom. 2005, Wendy Roberts, Dating Can Be Deadly, Red Dress Ink, page 229
   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. 2009, Lou Manfredo, chapter 7, in Rizzo’s War, New York, N.Y.: Minotaur Books, page 122
   This isn’t about plastic surgery, image management, or makeupping the facade. 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, page 335
   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. 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, page 89
   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. 2016, Mari Ruti, Feminist Film Theory and Pretty Woman, Bloomsbury Academic, page 173