nui
1. (verb) to be large, big, many, plentiful, numerous, great, abundant, ample, superior, of high rank, important.
He nui hoki ngā taika kei te ngahere tata atu ki taua kāinga (TTT 1/6/1923:3). / There are also many tigers in the bush near that village.
See also nunui
Synonyms: rangatira, pōike, ngahiri, ngeangea, oha, hira, ranea, huhua, pukahu, rari, rarawe, makuru, ngahoro, ngerongero, hua, ngāhorohoro, mahamaha, maha, humi, hāwere, wene, tuarea, te hanga a te, te mahi a te ..., tini, tokomaha, pio, tuauriuri, marea, mahi, hia, takitini, maruru, makehua, rea, papata, makiu, nunui, kaitā, mātua, matararahi, tetere, korahi, mātuatua, mokorarahi, rahi, pūwharu, whakatikotiko, pūharu, pūwheti, tuangea, ruarangi, katete, rarahi, matarahi, kūpara, pūhetī, mokorahi, whakahara
2. (noun) size, quantity, vastness, greatness, importance, amount, abundance, plenty, rank.
I ngā awa o Tongariro me Waitahanui tonu, inā kē te nui o te moni e utua ana ki ngā hapū me ngā tāngata nō rātau ngā whenua, me ka whakawhiti nei te hunga mahi taraute i aua whenua rā (TTR 1998:197). / Especially the Tongariro and Waitahanui rivers, substantial income was paid to the hapū and the people who owned the land if the people fishing for trout crossed those lands.
Synonyms: maruru, ngahue, maha, makuru, makurutanga, mahi, hira, huhua, huhuatanga, humi, pukahu, rahinga, ranea, tōnuitanga, harahara, kōhangohango, rārangi, tūtira, tūnga, ripa, kapa, rangea, kaipukahu
2. (adjective) tolerant.
huinga nui
1. (noun) superset (maths).
Mēnā kei roto ngā huānga katoa o tētahi huinga i tētahi huinga nui ake, ka kīia he huinga iti tētahi, he huinga nui tētahi. Ko te ⊂ hei tohu i te huinga iti, ko te ⊃ hei tohu i te huinga nui. Hei tauira: A = {1, 2, 3} E = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8} Hei huinga iti te A ki te E (A ⊂ E). Hei huinga nui te E ki te A (E ⊃ A) (TRP 2010:128). / If all the elements are in a larger set, it is called a subset and the other is a superset. The symbol ⊂ is for a subset, the symbol ⊃ s for a superset. For example: A = {1, 2, 3} E = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8} where A to E (A ⊂ E) is a subset. E to A (E ⊃ A) is a superset.
tai nui
1. (noun) spring tide, king tide, tidal wave, huge tide.
Tekau mā rua putu te teitei o te tai nui i pā atu ki te ākau o Tonga, he motu kei te taha whakarua o Niu Tīrani (TWMNT 5/6/1877:149). / The tidal wave that struck the shores of Tonga, islands to the north-east of New Zealand, was twelve feet high.
See also taitai nunui
Piritana Nui
1. (loan) (location) Great Britain.
He nui anō te iwi Māori kei tāwāhi, e 70,000 ki Ahitereiria, e 10,000 ki Piritana Nui (Te Ara 2012). / Many also lived overseas, with 70,000 in Australia and 10,000 in Great Britain.
See also Piritini Nui
Nui Tīreni
1. (loan) (location) Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Hei te 25 o ngā rā o Pēpuere ka tīmata te hui ā-tau a ngā tākuta o Nui Tīreni me ētahi takuta manuhiri tūārangi o ērā atu wāhi o te ao ki Rotorua (TTT 1/1/1928:714). / On 25 February the annual conference of New Zealand and international doctors begins at Rotorua.
tara nui
1. (noun) floor space on the right on entering a wharenui and the place where manuhiri sleep.
Ka haria mai e te manuhiri ā rātou kawenga ki roto i te wharenui. Ko rātou ki te tara nui o te whare moe ai, ko te tangata whenua ki te tara iti (TWK 46:13). / The visitors take their luggage into the meeting house. They sleep on the right side on entering a meeting house, the local people are on the left side.
ringa tōhau nui
1. (noun) industrious person, hard-working, active, tireless, conscientious, zealous - sometimes as ringa tōhaunui.
Te ringa tōhau nui (W 1971:429). / The hand that perspires a lot. (A whakataukī for an industrious person.)
See also tōhau
Synonyms: ngākau whakapuke, whiwhita, ngākaunui, ngangahau, whitawhita, ngākau whiwhita
