slap(FOR FACE)UKinformal
Minor skin imperfections can usually be disguised with a spot of make-up.微小的皮肤瑕疵通常可以用化妆品来掩盖。
Who's doing your make-up for the wedding?
With his make-up and strange clothes, he looked like nothing on earth.他化了妆，穿了一身稀奇古怪的衣服，看上去像个外星人。
She fritters so much money away on expensive make-up.她大把大把地花钱购买昂贵化妆品。
Ten-year-olds have started wearing lipstick and make-up in imitation of the older girls.10岁的女孩子已经开始模仿年龄大些的女孩涂抹口红和化妆了。
Don't cry, or your make-up will run .

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Make-up & skin care
aha
alpha-hydroxy acid
anti-wrinkle
argan oil
au naturel
barefaced
liner
lip liner
lipsalve
lipstick
made up
mascara
mascaraed
mask
mudpack
sun protection factor
suntan lotion
toner
wand
warpaint

make-upnoun[U] (PARTS)

The make-up of something or someone is the combination of things that form it: 组成，构成
They argue that the membership of the Council does not reflect the racial make-up of the city.他们争辩说议会的成员结构并未反映出这座城市的种族构成。
Organizational ability is not one of the most obvious parts of his make-up.组织才能并不是他各项素质中最突出的部分。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Comprising and consisting of
be
compose
composition
compositional
compositionally
comprise
consist in something
consist of something
constituent
constituent part
constitute
constitution
constitutive
form
from
make
multi-component
of

make up something | American Dictionary

make up something

phrasal verb with makeverbus/meɪk/past tense and past participlemadeus/meɪd/

(FORM)

(of a number of things) to form something as a whole:
The book is made up of several different articles.

make up something

phrasal verb with makeverbus/meɪk/past tense and past participlemadeus/meɪd/

(DO LATER)

to do something at a different time because you cannot do it at the expected time:
She left work early and made up the time by staying late the next day.

make up something

phrasal verb with makeverbus/meɪk/past tense and past participlemadeus/meɪd/

(PROVIDE)

to provide something, esp. an amount that reaches a total:
We’re $5 short, but I’ll make up the difference.

make up something

phrasal verb with makeverbus/meɪk/past tense and past participlemadeus/meɪd/

(PREPARE)

to prepare or arrange something by putting different things together:
Could you make up a list of what we need at the supermarket?
The maid will make up your room (= clean it).

make up something

phrasal verb with makeverbus/meɪk/past tense and past participlemadeus/meɪd/

(INVENT)

to invent an excuse, a story, etc., often in order to deceive:
I was trying to make up a good excuse for being late.

make up

phrasal verb with makeverbus/meɪk/past tense and past participlemadeus/meɪd/

(BECOME FRIENDS)

to forgive someone and become friends again after an argument or disagreement:
We argue all right, but we always make up before long.

make up sth | Business English

make up sth

phrasal verb with makeverb[ T ]uk /meɪk/usmade | made
to combine with other people or things to form a total or group:
Tuition makes up $154.7 million of the university's $389.5 million budget.
The committee is made up of delegates from 15 different countries.
to reduce the bad effect of there not being enough of something:
In order to make up the budget deficit we will have to increase taxation.
Rent for individual families is based on their income, with federal money making up the difference.
to prepare something:
make up a bill/invoiceI'll get our sales department to make up an invoice for the goods.
make up the accountsThe accounts must be made up to a date not more than six months before the annual general meeting.
 make up the time
to work extra hours, because you did not work the full amount of time earlier:
I'm going to finish early today, and make up the time tomorrow.
make-up
noun[ S ]
ukus
the different people who together form a group, or the different things that something consists of:
Changes in age discrimination legislation have affected both the make-up of the workforce and business in general.
The rating system is based on complex algorithms that analyse the nutritional make-up of a food item and then assign it a score.

Examples of make something up

make something up
The type and make-up of the family differed from house to house and from street to street.
Other considerations included pay for additional make-up and rehearsal time as well as for participation in non-musical visual shtick.
These are structures that are inserted in sentences, but are argued not to be part of the syntactic make-up of the host clause.
A make-up date for testing was arranged for participants who were absent or unable to participate on the regularly scheduled day of testing.
The problem is that no test has accounted for the quality of the oocyte whose genetic make-up is paramount to reproductive outcome.
There is also a different rhythmical make-up to this sequence.
This make-up is shared with their children, who might also demonstrate emphasis on selected vocabulary categories for the same reason.
Everyday solidarity was a key part of their make-up.
Its internal make-up directly reflects the tripartite hierarchical structure we talked about in the previous section.
This allowed for many individuals to contribute to the genetic make-up of the population.
The way we dress, our make-up and everything.
They originate as disguised substitutes for other words, but their playful make-up does not make them in any way more innocent than their non-knock-knock equivalents.
The hypocritical smiles are cracking the overdone make-up of its faces and facades held uneasily by feeble cardboard props.
In the same fashion, works on later discursive projects such as nationalism need to consider the contingent historical production of its make-up.
I move to consider why policemen, legal officials, journalists, and the watching public became so apparently obsessed with make-up and its meanings.
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