An item's composition.
To understand how a nuclear reactor works, we must first look at its makeup.
Cosmetics; colorants and other substances applied to the skin to alter its appearance.
She is wearing a lot of makeup.
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.
Alternative form of make up (“(ambitransitive) 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.
Deverbal from make up. Noun, sense 2 is a semantic loan from French maquillage, from maquiller (“to make up, fabricate”).
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