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rekoata

1. (loan) (verb) (-tia) to record.

Nā te Kamupene Parlophone o Ahitereiria te kōnohete i rekoata (TTR 1998:62). / The concert was recorded by the Australian Parlophone Company.

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Synonyms: kōpae puoro, tuhi, kupu whakamahara, mauhanga


2. (loan) (noun) recording, record.

Nō te tau 1996 i puta ake i ētahi rekoata o ngā waiata a Ana Hato rāua ko Deane Waretini (TTR 1998:63). / In 1996 some recordings of Ana Hato and Deane Waretini were released.

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whakauenuku

1. (noun) tape recorder.


2. (noun) (audio) recorder.

pūrere hopu tangi

1. (noun) tape recorder.

rīpene

1. (loan) (noun) ribbon, tape recording, audiotape, cassette tape.

Waiho atu ngā rīpene me ngā kākahu o te Pākehā mō ā te Pākehā kanikani (TP 5/1901:3). / Leave the ribbons and Pākehā clothes for the Pākehā dances.

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See also rīpine

Synonyms: rīpine

rīpine

1. (loan) (noun) ribbon, tape recording, audiotape, cassette tape.

Me horoi, ā ka haeana ngā rīpine here makawe (TTT 1/4/1923:4). / The ribbons for tying hair should be washed and ironed.

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Synonyms: rīpene

tuhi

1. (verb) (-a,-ngia) to write, draw, record.

Ka tae ki reira, kua hikitia e te mīhini kua riringitia ngā waiū ki roto i tētahi taika kaitā, kua tirohia te taumaha, kua tuhia ki roto i taku pukapuka (HP 1991:25). / When I arrived there, they were lifted by the machine and the milk was poured into a large tank, the weight was checked and written into my book.

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Synonyms: kōpae puoro, rekoata, kupu whakamahara, mauhanga


2. (verb) (-a,-ngia) to adorn, decorate (with painting, etc.).

Ka kite a Tūpai i te rangi e tuhi ana te pīpipi o te rangi (JPS 1926:240). / Tūpai saw the sky adorned with cirrostratus cloud.

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3. (verb) (-a) to point out, point at.

Tuhia mai ko tēhea o ngā pā hei huakanga mā tātou (W 1971:448). / Point out which fort for us to attack.

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Synonyms: tohutohu, tohu, tūtohi, whakahahaki, whakaatuatu, arataki, tūtohu, whakaatu


4. (noun) writing, script.

I te mea kua tāia, ka pōhēhē ngā tamariki kei te tika katoa te tuhi me te takoto o ngā kupu (HM 3/1991:2). / Because they have been published, the children think mistakenly that the writing and grammar is all correct.

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Synonyms: tuhinga

pūrere kōpaepae

1. (noun) compact disc (CD) player, digital versatile disc (DVD) player, DVD recorder.

kupu whakamahara

1. (noun) record, memoir, chronicle.

kaipupuri pūranga kōrero

1. (noun) records manager.

hopureo

1. (noun) tape recorder.

mīhini hopu kōrero

1. (loan) (noun) tape recorder.

taupuni hopuoro

1. (noun) recording studio, audio workstation.

Nā te taupuni hopuoro i whakarākei tana waiata (RTP 2015:123). / It was the recording studio that remixed her song.

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pūkete

1. (noun) account (finance, computer, etc.), record (of data).

Ko te Kōti Whenua anō te kaiwhakahaere i ngā pupuritanga hea me ngā ngā utu rawa; koia anō ka tono mō ngā kaimātai uara, ngā kaiarotake nama, tae atu ki ngā pūkete pūtea (Te Ara 2017). / The Land Court is also the regulator of shareholdings and dividends; it also appoints valuers and auditors, including for the accounts.

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hopureo

1. (noun) (audio) recorder.

kōpae pūoru

1. (noun) (music) record.

kōrero

1. (noun) (document) record.

mīhini hopu reo

1. (loan) (noun) recording machine.

Nō te tau 1931 i mauria ake e Materoa he kapa waiata nei ki Te Whanganui-a-Tara, ā, e 40 ā rātau waiata mā Āpirana i hopukina e te mīhini hopu reo (TTR 1998:160). / In 1931 Materoa took a singing group to Wellington and 40 waiata were recorded for Āpirana.

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mauhanga

1. (noun) record, documentation.

Nō mai i ngā mauhanga tonu o tana tupuna ki te taha o tōna whaea, o Hoani Meihana Te Rangiotū, te pūhanga mai o te nuinga o ana mōhiotanga (TTR 1998:33). / The source of the majority of his knowledge was from the records made by his maternal grandfather, Hoani Meihana Te Rangiotū.

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Synonyms: kōpae puoro, rekoata, tuhi, kupu whakamahara

rehu

1. (noun) long traditional flute - with a closed top and a transverse blowing hole and finger holes like a pōrutu.

(Te Māhuri Textbook (Ed. 2): 168;)

Ko ngā wheua o te hunga maitai i patua nei he mea mahi hei tīrou kai, ā, ko ngā wheua o ngā hūhā he mea mahi hei tōrino, arā, hei rehu (TAH 51:17). / The bones of the foreigners who had been killed were made into forks for picking up food, and the thigh bones were made into flutes.

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2. (noun) recorder (musical instrument) - probably best distinguished from the traditional flute described above by adding the word Pākehā.

hopunga puoro

1. (noun) sound recording.

Ko te tārua te hanga tuarua i tētahi hopunga puoro, ko te whakawhiti rānei i tētahi puoro mai i tētahi momo hangarau ki tētahi, pērā i te rīpene ki te kōnae matihiko. I ētahi wā, ko te whakauru oro hou ki roto i tētahi hopunga o mua (RTP 2015:102). / Dubbing is creating a reproduction of a musical recording, or transferring a piece of music to a new type of technology, such as from tape to digital. Sometimes it also refers to the addition of new sound elements into a previous recording (RTP 2015:102).

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