[kua] taka te kapa
1. (loan) the penny has dropped, I should have realised, I get it now, I get the picture - an idiom adopted from English to indicate that someone has just realised something that should have been obvious from earlier signs.
Kātahi anō ka taka te kapa, kua hapū a Hēni. / The penny has just dropped, Jane is pregnant.
pikitia
1. (loan) (noun) picture, film, painting.
Nōna te whakaaro kia āta whakaritea mā Colin McCahon tētahi pikitia e peita (TTR 2000:193). / It was his idea to commission Colin McCahon to paint a painting.
Synonyms: whakaahua, panipani, peitatanga
2. (verb) (-tia) to form, fashion.
Ka haere a Tāne, whakaahua i te oneone, he wahine māhana. Ko Hinehaone te ingoa o taua wahine (Tr 1874:34). / Tāne went off and from the earth he formed a woman for himself. That woman was Hinehaone.
3. (verb) (-tia) to photograph, portray, film.
Kātahi ka mea mai me mau e au ki te nūpepa o Taupō kia whakaahuatia (HP 1991:308). / Then it was decided that I should take it to Taupō's newspaper to be photographed.
Synonyms: whakaahuatanga
4. (noun) photograph, illustration, portrait, picture, image, shot (photograph), photocopy.
Ko te whakaahua kei runga tonu ake o taua ingoa he tangata mangumangu kei roto i te tāpu wai. E rua ngā Pākehā kei te horoi i a ia ki te paraihe, ki te hopi (TTT 1/10/1921:5). / The illustration just above that name is of a black person in a bathtub. There are two Pākehā washing him with brushes and soap.
5. (noun) design.
Kei te poraka e mau ana te moko o te Taura Whiri (arā, ki te uma (taha mauī), he whakaahua paku noa iho), ā, kei te angaangamate ko te moko whakanui i te Tau o te Reo Māori (HM 4/1994:12). / On the sweatshirt is the logo of the Māori Language Commission (that is on the chest (left side), just a small design), and on the reverse side is the logo celebrating the Year of the Māori Language.
whare pikitia
1. (loan) (noun) picture theatre, cinema.
Ka haere mātau i ētahi wā ki ngā whare o te Rōpū Karaitiana Mō Ngā Taitama ki roto i ngā wāhi ngahau pēnei i te whare pikitia, hōro kanikani rānei (HP 1991:142). / Sometimes we went to the establishments of the YMCA to the entertainment places such as the picture theatre or dance halls.
kauwhata whakaahua
1. (noun) picture graph, pictograph.
He momo hoahoa tauanga motuhake te kauwhata whakaahua. Ka whakamahia he whakaahua, he tohu rānei hei whakaatu i te auau o ia wehenga raraunga. He āhua rite ki te kauwhata pou (TRP 2010:148). / A pictograph is a type of statistical diagram. Pictures or symbols are used to show the frequency of each category of data. It is similar to the bar graph (TRP 2010:149).
2. (noun) (picture) frame.
