The difference between Constitute and Make up
When used as verbs, constitute means to set up, whereas make up means to constitute.
Constitute is also noun with the meaning: an established law.
check bellow for the other definitions of Constitute and Make up
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Constitute as a verb (transitive):
To set up; to establish; to enact.
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Constitute as a verb (transitive):
To make up; to compose; to form.
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Constitute as a verb (transitive):
To appoint, depute, or elect to an office; to make and empower.
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Constitute as a noun (obsolete):
An established law.
Examples:
"rfquotek T. Preston"
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Make up as a verb (transitive):
To constitute; to compose; to form.
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Make up as a verb (transitive):
To compensate, fill in or catch up.
Examples:
"He can make up the time next week."
"I plan to make up for my failed midterm."
"Cuba took limited free market-oriented measures to alleviate severe shortages of food, consumer goods, and services to make up for the ending of Soviet subsidies."
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Make up as a verb (transitive):
To invent, imagine, or concoct (a story, claim, etc.).
Examples:
"He was a great storyteller and could make up a story on the spot."
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Make up as a verb (transitive, cooking):
To assemble, or mix.
Examples:
"I can make up a batch of stew in a few minutes, but it will take a few hours to cook."
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Make up as a verb (transitive):
To apply cosmetics or makeup to.
Examples:
"Let's leave as soon as I make up my face."
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Make up as a verb (intransitive):
To resolve, forgive or smooth over an argument or fight.
Examples:
"They fight a lot, but they always manage to make up."
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Make up as a verb:
To overcome a disadvantage.
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Make up as a verb:
To make social or romantic advances ; to pay court (to).
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Make up as a verb:
genetic material, the genetic 'makeup' of a thing, in a living creature.