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hāora

1. (loan) (noun) hour, time - sometimes as haora.

Ko tēnei hoki, ka mahara tātou ki te tāima, ko te hāora tēnei e ara ai tātou i te moe (Ma 1841:7). / In all this, remember how critical the moment is. It is time for you to wake out of sleep.

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hāora

1. (noun) oxygen (O).

Ki te nātia roatia te pūkorokoro, ka mate te tangata i te kore hāora (PK 2008:705). / If the windpipe is squeezed for too long a person will die from lack of oxygen.

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hāora toro

1. (loan) (noun) visiting hours.

whakaatu hāora

1. (loan) (noun) sundial.

Kātahi a Īhāia poropiti ka karanga ki a Ihowā, ā whakahokia ana e ia te ātārangi tekau ngā nekehanga, o ngā nekehanga i heke iho ai i te whakaatu hāora a Ahata (PT 2Kingi 20:11). / So Isaiah the prophet cried out to the Lord, and He brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down on the sundial of Ahaz.

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hāora-kore

1. (modifier) anaerobic, deoxygenated.

He aha tētahi korikori hāora-kore a te tangata? (RP 2009:186). / What is an anaerobic activity of a person?

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ā-hāora

1. (modifier) aerobic - a biological process requiring oxygen.

He rauropi ā-hāora ngā tipu me ngā kīrehe katoa, me ētahi moroiti (RP 2009:156). / All plants and animals and some micro-organisms are aerobic organisms.

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hāora-tahi

1. (noun) monoxide.

hāora-toru

1. (noun) trioxide, ozone.

Ko te hāora-toru tētahi o ngā haurehu o te kōhaupapa, te paparanga tuarua o te kōhauhau (RP 2009:187). / Ozone is one of the gases in the stratosphere, the second layer in the atmosphere (RP 2009:187).

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hāora-rua

1. (noun) dioxide.

waro hāora-rua

1. (noun) carbon dioxide.

utu ā-hāora

1. (loan) (noun) hourly rate, hourly pay, per hour.

Koia kei a Iriata e inoi nei kia whakapikihia tana utu ā-hāora mai i te tekau tāra ki te rua tekau tāra (HKK 1999:85). / What a cheek Iriata has in asking for her hourly rate to be raised from ten dollars to twenty dollars.

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toto hāora-kore

1. (noun) deoxygenated blood.

Mā te ia-auraki matua e hoki mai ai te toto hāora-kore ki te manawa (RP 2009:275). / Deoxygenated blood returns to the heart via the vena cava.

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waro hāora-tahi

1. (noun) carbon monoxide.

hauota hāora-rua

1. (noun) nitrogen dioxide.

pungatara hāora-rua

1. (noun) sulphur dioxide.

pungatara hāora-toru

1. (noun) sulphur trioxide.

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