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MAKE UP
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Apply make-up or cosmetics to one's face to appear prettier
Example:
She makes herself up every morning
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Hypernyms (to "make up" is one way to...):
groom; neaten (care for one's external appearance)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "make up"):
highlight (apply a highlighter to one's cheeks or eyebrows in order to make them more prominent)
lipstick (apply lipstick to)
rouge (redden by applying rouge to)
powder (apply powder to)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
make-up; makeup (cosmetics applied to the face to improve or change your appearance)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Put in order or neaten
Example:
make up a room
Synonyms:
make; make up
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "make up" is one way to...):
clean up; neaten; square away; straighten; straighten out; tidy; tidy up (put (things or places) in order)
Verb group:
make (gather and light the materials for)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 3
Meaning:
Come to terms
Example:
After some discussion we finally made up
Synonyms:
conciliate; make up; patch up; reconcile; settle
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "make up" is one way to...):
agree; concord; concur; hold (be in accord; be in agreement)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "make up"):
appease; propitiate (make peace with)
make peace (end hostilities)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Sense 4
Meaning:
Concoct something artificial or untrue
Synonyms:
cook up; fabricate; invent; make up; manufacture
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "make up" is one way to...):
concoct; dream up; hatch; think of; think up (devise or invent)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "make up"):
spin (make up a story)
concoct; trump up (invent)
confabulate (unconsciously replace fact with fantasy in one's memory)
mythologise; mythologize (construct a myth)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 5
Meaning:
Devise or compose
Example:
This designer makes up our Spring collections
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "make up" is one way to...):
design (create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 6
Meaning:
Do or give something to somebody in return
Example:
Does she pay you for the work you are doing?
Synonyms:
compensate; make up; pay; pay off
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "make up" is one way to...):
settle (dispose of; make a financial settlement)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Sense 7
Meaning:
Make up work that was missed due to absence at a later point
Example:
Can I catch up with the material or is it too late?
Synonyms:
catch up with; make up
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "make up" is one way to...):
recoup; recover; recuperate (regain or make up for)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
make-up; makeup (an event that is substituted for a previously cancelled event)
Sense 8
Meaning:
Form or compose
Example:
These few men comprise his entire army
Synonyms:
be; comprise; constitute; make up; represent
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "make up"):
make (constitute the essence of)
compose (form the substance of)
constitute; form; make (to compose or represent)
range; straddle (range or extend over; occupy a certain area)
fall into; fall under (be included in or classified as)
supplement (serve as a supplement to)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
make-up; makeup (the way in which someone or something is composed)
Sense 9
Meaning:
Adjust for
Example:
engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance
Synonyms:
compensate; correct; counterbalance; even off; even out; even up; make up
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "make up" is one way to...):
balance; equilibrate; equilibrise; equilibrize (bring into balance or equilibrium)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "make up"):
carry (compensate for a weaker partner or member by one's own performance)
compensate; cover; overcompensate (make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Context examples:
Well, you can make up your mind to have it taken out of you on this craft.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
"We're surprised, too," she answered lightly. "We never saw Wolf make up to a stranger before."
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
This remarkable new image from the PIONIER instrument reveals the convective cells that make up the surface of this huge star, which has 350 times the diameter of the Sun.
(Giant Bubbles on Red Giant Star’s Surface, ESO)
The effects of hunting can extend far beyond the hunted, threatening the overall health of the trees that make up the forest.
(Overhunting of large animals has catastrophic effects on trees, NSF)
Cancer found only in the tissues that make up the wall of the gallbladder.
(Localized gallbladder cancer, NCI Dictionary)
Immature platelets normally make up a small percentage of the total circulating platelets (1.1-6.1%, with a mean of 3.4%.).
(Immature Platelet, NCI Thesaurus)
They make up a person’s tissue type, which varies from person to person.
(HLA, NCI Dictionary)
Minute protoplasmic masses that make up organized tissue, consisting of a nucleus which is surrounded by protoplasm which contains the various organelles and is enclosed in the cell or plasma membrane.
(Murine Cell Types, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
The messages are sent by chemical and electrical changes in the cells that make up the nerves.
(Nerve, NCI Dictionary)
We should make up between this and Reigate.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
