Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

-s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
-ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
-ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

makeup

/ˈmeɪkʌp/ noun

Forms makeups makeuping makeupping makeuped makeupped make-up make up

noun (countable, uncountable) An item's composition. “To understand how a nuclear reactor works, we must first look at its makeup.”
noun (countable, uncountable) Cosmetics; colorants and other substances applied to the skin to alter its appearance. “She is wearing a lot of makeup.”
noun (manufacturing) Replacement; material used to make up for the amount that has been used up.
noun (education) A test given to students allowing them to repeat failed material.
noun (finance) In a NIMCRUT, an amount distributed from the trust's income in subsequent years to make up for a present shortfall.

Synonyms

Deverbal from make up. Noun sense 2 is a semantic loan from French maquillage, from maquiller (“to make up, fabricate”).

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “makeup”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details