TO MAKE UP

Definition: TO MAKE UP

TO MAKE UP

1. (a) To collect into a sum or mass; as, to make up the amount of rent; to make up a bundle or package. (b) To reconcile; to compose; as, to make up a difference or quarrel. (c) To supply what is wanting in; to complete; as, a dollar is wanted to make up the stipulated sum. (d) To compose, as from ingredients or parts; to shape, prepare, or fabricate; as, to make up a mass into pills; to make up a story. He was all made up of love and charms! --Addison. (e) To compensate; to make good; as, to make up a loss. (f) To adjust, or to arrange for settlement; as, to make up accounts. (g) To dress and paint for a part, as an actor; as, he was well made up.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: TO MAKE UP

You're just going to have to make up your own mind one day about what's right and wrong (Hud; writing credit: Harriet Frank Jr.; Larry McMurtry)

You know, if I had a face like yours, I'd try to make up for it with some sort of personality (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze; writing credit: Kevin Eastman; Peter Laird)

If she can avoid catastrophe two days in a row, I might have a chance to make up my mind (Anne of Green Gables; writing credit: Lucy Maud Montgomery; Kevin Sullivan)

There was me, that is Alex and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie and Dim. And we sat in the Korova milkbar trying to make up our razoodocks what to do with the evening (A Clockwork Orange; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick)

I think, I think there's too much burden placed on the orgasm, you know, to make up for empty areas in life (Annie Hall; writing credit: Woody Allen ; Marshall Brickman)

Then she says she wants to make up. (Things We Do For Love; performing artist: 10 CC)

PEOPLE MAKE MISTAKE TO MAKE UP,TO BREAK UP,TO WAKE UP (All I Have; performing artist: Jennifer Lopez)

You dont need a sign to make up your mind (Love will turn; performing artist: Kenny Rogers)

Did You Ever Have To Make Up Your Mind (performing artist: The Lovin' Spoonful)

Break Up to Make Up (performing artist: Stylistics)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• The Parents' Guide to Storytelling: How to Make Up New Stories and Retell Old Favorites (reference)

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This is an RNA molecule. Computer graphics are made by utilizing data fed into a computer. Data may be weights and measures, and structure to make up a three-dimensional image so one can visualize an otherwise minute structure. Credit: Dr. Richard Feldmann (photographer).

Steel mill equipment. Small parts and large ones--automatic machine tools and the old grind stone, somewhat modernised--all find a part in our war production program. These workers finish off one of the many parts that go to make up the equipment that hel. Credit: Library of Congress.

Antiaircraft gun carriage. This master machinist lays out the precision parts that go to make up a thirty-seven millimeter anti-aircraft gun carriage. Swift flying planes present a difficult target, the anti-aircraft gun must be a precision instrument. W. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The short of the case in conquest is this: the conqueror, if he have a just cause, has a despotical right over the persons of all, that actually aided, and concurred in the war against him, and a right to make up his damage and cost out of their labour and estates, so he injure not the right of any other. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

She thought it was time to make up.

Wellington went to the village of Waterloo to make up his report to Lord Bathurst

And how many of those tiny little grains go to make up the small handful which a child grasps in its play

He hid from people, and by gifts tried to make up to all people for himself

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Health

To make up for lost water, you may feel the need to drink large amounts of water. (references)

They often overbreathe (hyperventilate) to make up for the low oxygen, and this results in a low CO2 level in the blood (hypocapnia). (references)

Having seen their child ill and in pain, parents may attempt to make up for this by giving extra presents or allowing behavior they would not tolerate in another child. (references)

Children

Sierra Leone

The two largest ethnic groups are the Temne in the northern part of the country and the Mende in the southern part; each of these groups is estimated to make up approximately 30 percent of the population. (references)

Civil Liberties

Belarus

A new clause prohibits the establishment of offices of foreign organizations, "the activities of which are aimed at ... the inciting of national, religious and racial enmity, as well as activities which can have negative effects on the physical and mental health of the people." The Roman Catholic Church has experienced a shortage of qualified native clergy, and at times the Church has had difficulty getting permission from the authorities to bring in a sufficient number of foreign religious workers, mostly from Poland, to make up for the shortage. (references)

Economic History

Italy

Multinational firms are said to make up as much as 55% of the market (and U.S. firms about one third). (references)

Human Rights

Iran

Supporters of outlawed political organizations, such as the Mujahedin-e Khalq organization, are believed to make up a large number of those executed each year. (references)

Political Economy

Korea

It has permitted the spread of farmers' markets to make up for the contraction of food supplied through the public distribution system. (references)

TUNISIA

In 1997, in order to make up for the decline in import duties, the government raised its middle VAT rate (by far the largest group) from 17 to 18 percent, and is also making greater efforts to enforce compliance. (references)

Trade

Egypt

Prior to issuance of Ministerial Decree 99 of 1994, free-of-charge compensatory shipments, meant to make up for losses caused by a drop in the international price of imported goods between the contract date and the time of shipment, were considered illegal imports. (references)

Travel

Indonesia

Persons suffering from severe diarrhea may obtain powder to make up oral rehydration solution from a local pharmacy. (references)

Korea

Some taxi drivers also charge higher fares to make up for revenue lost by having to drive back to Seoul without a passenger. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "TO MAKE UP": but ... to make up ♦ contract to make up work ♦ go to make up ♦ To make up a face ♦ To make up for ♦ To make up one's mind ♦ To make up to ♦ To make up with. Additional references.

Chinese 

配 (to deserve, to fit, to join, to match, to mate, to mix), 化裝 (to disguise oneself), 捏� (to fabricate), 構成 (to compose, to constitute, to form), 構 (Broussonetia papyrifera, to compose, to construct, to form), 捏 (to knead, to pinch), �" (to account, to constitute, to divine, to observe, to occupy). (various references)

Danish

sammenføje med påskruning. (various references)

Dutch

aanschroeven (screw home). (various references)

Finnish

liittää putki, kiristää poraputken kierreliitos. (various references)

French

réunir par vissage, bloquer les tubes de drilling. (various references)

German

eine Schraubverbindung herstellen, die Bohrschwerstangen verschrauben. (various references)

Greek 

συναρμολογώ τη γεωτρητική στήλη με κοχλίωση, βάζω μακιγιάζ, βάζω μακιάζ. (various references)

Hungarian

tördel, sminkel, pótol (complement, implement, make good, make up for, replace, to complement, to make good, to recover, to refill, to reinstate, to substitute, to supersede, to supplant, to supplement), kitalál (fabricate, feign, give birth, guess, invent, sprang, sprung, to contrive, to cook up, to devise, to fabricate, to feign, to find one's way out, to forge, to nick, to spring, to strike out), kikerekít (make up, round off, to make round, to round, to round out), kifesti magát (put on a little make-up, to get oneself up, to rouge, to rouge oneself), kiegészít (amend, complement, complete, eke out, fill out, implement, integrate, make up, piece out, supplement, to amend, to augment, to complement, to eke out, to expand, to integrate, to piece out, to piece together, to refill, to replenish, to supplement), elkészít (did, done, fabricate, make ready, to cook, to dispense, to do, to make ready), alkot (constitute, create, generate, procreate, to compose, to create, to frame, to procreate, to produce), összecsomagol (pack up, to do up). (various references)

Italian

contratto di lavoro su ordinazione (contract, contract to make up work), contratto di lavorazione per conto stipulato (contract, contract to make up work). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

彩る (to colour, to paint). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

くまどる (to shade), しめる (to account for, to be damp, to be wet, to become wet, to close, to comprise, to constrict, to fasten, to hold, to occupy, to shut, to strangle, to tie), つくりあ�'る (to build up, to complete, to construct, to fabricate), つくる (to build, to coin, to commit, to compose, to construct, to create, to cultivate, to draw up, to establish, to fabricate, to make, to manufacture, to organize, to prepare, to trim, to write), いろどる (to colour, to paint). (various references)

Pig Latin

otay akemay upay.(various references)

Portuguese

reunir por atarraxamento, atarraxar os tubos de sondagem. (various references)

Spanish

atornillar los tubos de perforación. (various references)

Swedish

sammanfoga (cement, interlink, join, merge, unite), ansluta (affiliate, affiliation, combine, connect, connect up, join, plug in, unite, wire). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: makeup, takeup, uptake.

-3 letters: kaput, kempt, oakum, taupe, tempo.

-4 letters: amok, atom, atop, auto, kame, kemp, kept, keto, make, mako, mate, maut, meat, meou, meta, moat, moke, mope, mote, moue, mute, pate, peak, peat, poem, poet, poke, pome, pout, puke, puma, take, tame, tamp, tape, teak, team, temp, tepa, toea, toke, tome, tope.