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tukutata

1. (modifier) short, direct (of a route, path, etc.).

He ara tukutata rawa tēnei i tērā rā Kēpa Hone, te ara tawhito (TWMNT 19/5/1874:130). / This is a much shorter way than going round Cape Horn, the old route.

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2. (noun) short route, direct route, short cut.

He ākau roa anō tērā, he tukutata tēnei (W 1971:6). / That is the circuitous route, this is the short cut.

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Synonyms: pokatata, pokapū, poka pū

autaki

1. (verb) (-na) to lead by a circuitous route, divert.

He kuia i autakina ki te pae tuatahi, i autakina ki te pae tuarua (W 1971:23). / An elderly woman was led by a circuitous route to the first and second ridge of hills.

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2. (modifier) roundabout, circuitous.

Kaua e whāia te ara autaki, kei tae tōmuri tāua (PK 2008:48). / Don't follow the roundabout route or we'll arrive late.

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Synonyms: kopipio, āwheo, āwhio, porowhawhe, potapotae, takaāwhio, takawhawhe

3. (modifier) wordy, prosy, long-winded, loquacious, verbose, rambling.

He kupu autaki te whaikōrero a te auataia rā. / That fellows speech is long-winded.

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Synonyms: āmiki, hautete, pukukōrero, whakapūkahu, tātākī, kōtetetete, parure, ikimoke, karore, kāwekaweka, pikopiko, kaipāwe

4. (noun) detour, diversion, roundabout route, indirect course.

I a Eruera e whakamātau ana ki te mahi pāmu i ētahi maramara whenua e rua, he mea tuku mai ki a ia e ōna mātua whāngai rātau ko ōna mātua ake, ā, i tua atu i tēnā, ko āna mahi anō he kari wāra, he hanga huarahi, he autaki atu hoki i te rere o ngā wai o ngā repo o Rangitāiki mā te kāwanatanga (TTR 2000:118). / While Eruera was trying to establish his own farm on two pieces of land inherited from his foster and birth parents, he also worked for the government on digging drains, building roads and diverting the water flow of the Rangitāiki swamps.

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poka pū

1. (noun) centre spot, direct route, short cut, middle, centre, hub, bull's-eye, core, nucleus, axis, agency.

I mea ia me taiāwhio pea tana haere rā tahaki, e kore e poka pū tana haere i waenganui taua koraha (TWMNT 24/3/1874:71). / He decided that he should probably go around the side and not straight through the middle of the open country.

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pokatata

1. (verb) to take a short cut, go by a direct route - sometimes as two words, i.e. poka tata.

Ko te ara mō taua rori kei a mātou ko tōku iwi e mōhio ana, he ara tika tonu pokatata tonu i te whenua mānia (TWMNT 22/5/1877:132). / I and my tribe know the route for that road and it goes straight through flat land.

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2. (modifier) shortcut, by a direct route.

Ko Tiki i haere mā te huarahi pokatata (JPS 1952:189). / Tiki went by the direct route.

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Synonyms: tukutata, pokapū, poka pū

ākau roa

1. (noun) circuitous route, long way.

He ākau roa anō tērā, he tukutata tēnei (W 1971:6). / That is the circuitous route, this is the short cut.

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pokapū

1. (noun) centre spot, direct route, short cut, middle, centre, hub, bull's-eye, core, nucleus, axis, agency - sometimes as two words, i.e. poka pū.

I ngā tekau tau o 1920, o 1930, ka aratakina e te mokopuna a Tāwhiao, e Te Puea Hērangi, tōna iwi ki te whakatū i te marae o Tūrangawaewae i Ngāruawāhia. Koinei te pokapū o te Kīngitanga (Te Ara 2014). / In the 1920s and 1930s Te Puea Hērangi, Tāwhiao's granddaughter, led the Waikato people in establishing Tūrangawaewae marae at Ngāruawāhia. This is the centre of the King movement.

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Synonyms: pokatata, tukutata, poka pū, waengapū, wē, pokapūtanga, waengarahi

taeatanga

1. (noun) capture, conquest, defeat, overthrow, destruction, rout, sack.

Nō te taeatanga o te pā o te Tāke e te Rūhia i Niha i riro ai i te Rūhia te 8000 herehere a te Tāke me ngā pū repo e 90 (TW 19/1/1878:28). / When the Russians took the Turkish position at Sofia, they captured 8000 Turkish prisoners and 90 artillery pieces.

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Synonyms: taupoki, turaki, whakataka, urupatu, panapana, pana, pēke

2. (noun) achievement, triumph, accomplishment, attainment.

Kāti, kei te wā anake e kitea ai te taeatanga rānei o tēnei tūmanako, te korenga rānei (TP 4/1911:2). / Well, only time will reveal whether this aspiration will be achieved, or not.

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Synonyms: whakatutukitanga, haumāuiui, whakatutuki

whakataka

1. (verb) (-ia) to turn, deviate, divert.

Whakataka tō hau ki te tonga kia mākinakina i uta, kia mātaratara i tai (W 1971:190). / Divert your wind to the south so that it is intensely cold inland and piercingly cold at sea.

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2. (verb) to take a circuitous route.

E haere ana rātou, inamata e whakataka ana te ara konihi a Te Puhi-huia rātou ko ngā hoa (NM 1928:143). / They are going, but immediately Te Puhi-huia and her companions take a circuitous route along a path avoiding observation.

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3. (verb) (-ia) to surround, encircle.

Kātahi te hokowhitu rā ka whakataka i taua whare (NM 1928:34). / Then that war-party surrounded the house.

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huarahi

1. (noun) road, highway, track, street, avenue.

Kāore i ārikarika te paruparu o ngā huarahi, nā reira tonu i mate ai ō mātou paihikara (TP 8/1905:7). / There was a lot of mud on the roads and that's why our bicycles got into trouble.

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Synonyms: huanui, rori

2. (noun) method, procedure, process, way, route.

Ko tētahi huarahi e ora roa ai tō tāua reo me whakaako i ngā kura Māori, kāhore he huarahi kē atu (RK 1994:49). / One way for our language to survive for a long time is that it should be taught in Māori schools, there is no better way.

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Synonyms: ara, hātepe, tikanga, tukanga, pēwheatanga, tāera

ara pūkaka

1. (noun) direct route.

Ka whāia te ara pūkaka e tāua kia tae moata ai ki te hui. / We'll take the direct route so that we'll arrive early at the meeting.

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ara

1. (noun) way, path, lane, passageway, track, course, route.

Ko te ara mō taua rori kei a mātou ko tōku iwi e mōhio ana, he ara tika tonu poka tata tonu i te whenua mānia (TWMNT 22/5/1877:132). / I and my tribe know the route for that road and it goes straight through flat land.

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Synonyms: huanui, huarahi

2. (noun) line of weaving, layer of toetoe thatch on a roof, etc.

whana kai tangata

1. (noun) final charge to rout the enemy.

Te whana tukutahi, te whana kai tangata (M 2006:120). / The sudden attack, the final charge to rout the enemy.

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tīpoka

1. (verb) (-hia,-ia,-ria) to dig up, take out, cut out (something that has been buried or covered), skip over, pass by, omit.

Nā te tangata i tāpuke, nā te kurī i tīpoka (W 1971:422). / The man buried it, the dog dug it up.

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Synonyms: awere, whakatipi, kape, kopa, tohipa, tāhapa, numi, pahemo, pahure, paneke, whakahipa, whakataha, taha, pahika, hiemi, hihipa, hemo, hipa, whakatataha

2. (verb) (-hia,-tia) to go direct.

Me tīpoka ake, kai roa (HKW 1/7/1902:11). / We should go in a direct route, not the long one.

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3. (verb) (-hia,-ia,-ria) to cut open, slit open.

Ka oti te hunuhunu, kua reri te poaka ki te tīpoka. Tangoa mai ngā terotero, te puku, me ngā ate ki waho (TWK 31:19). / When singeing the pig is done, we're ready to slit it open. Remove the intestines, stomach and the liver.

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4. (noun) direct route, going directly.

Ko te tangata e hiahia ana kia nehua ia ki taua urupā, me mātua tīraha anō ki te marae mō tētahi wā; kāore e pai te tīpoka atu ki te urupā (HJ 2015:234). / The person wanting to be buried in that cemetery must first lie on the marae for a time; going directly to the burial ground is not appropriate.

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