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

  1. Constitute as a verb (transitive):

    To set up; to establish; to enact.

  2. Constitute as a verb (transitive):

    To make up; to compose; to form.

  3. Constitute as a verb (transitive):

    To appoint, depute, or elect to an office; to make and empower.

  1. Constitute as a noun (obsolete):

    An established law.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek T. Preston"

  1. Make up as a verb (transitive):

    To constitute; to compose; to form.

  2. 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."

  3. 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."

  4. 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."

  5. Make up as a verb (transitive):

    To apply cosmetics or makeup to.

    Examples:

    "Let's leave as soon as I make up my face."

  6. 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."

  7. Make up as a verb:

    To overcome a disadvantage.

  8. Make up as a verb:

    To make social or romantic advances ; to pay court (to).

  9. Make up as a verb:

    genetic material, the genetic 'makeup' of a thing, in a living creature.