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Reduplication of mio #1, mio #2; pointed, narrowing, clear-cut, precise, as carpentry; trim, neat; to dive into water without splashing.

• Examples:
  • E ʻopi aʻe a miomio, fold neat and trim [as clothes].
  • Kāmaʻa miomio, shoe with pointed toe.

ʻaʻano, Precision, as high-quality print resolution on a computer printer.

• Source:
  • Existing dictionary word, Extended meaning
• Related:
  • Kākiko miomio. Precision bitmapping.
• References:
  • Cf. kalakala.

adj. Confined in a narrow space; pinched up, as the toes in a tight shoe.

v. See MIO. To dive in the water; to swim; to move the hands in swimming; to puff; to breathe hard, as in swimming.

adj. Sloping; tapering to a point.

2. Beautiful, like a nicely shaped canoe.

1. Confined in a narrow space: pinched up. as the toes in a tight shoe.

2. Pointed in from; narrowed as the bow of a canoe.

3. Sloping: tapering to a point.

4. Beautiful, like a nicely shaped canoe.

An aquatic sport: riding the surf without a surf-board: body surfing.

[Mio, to dive.]

1. To dive in the water.

2. To be tapered.