āinga
1. (noun) driving force, thing driven.
Ki te mea he rangi pai kaua e iti iho i te rima māero te āinga haeretanga i aua hipi i roto i ngā hāora e rua tekau mā whā (TWMNT 4/5/1875:95). / If it's a good day the droving of those those sheep should cover no less than five miles in twenty-four hours.
āinga whakararo
1. (noun) forcing downwards, subduction - a geological process where one tectonic plate moves under another.
Ka tukituki ngā papaneke, i ētahi wā ka āia te papaneke moana ki raro tonu i te papaneke paparahi, ā, he nui ngā rū whenua me ngā hūnga puia ka hua ake. Ka kīia tēnei ko te āinga whakararo (RP 2009:305). / When the tectonic plates ram against each other other, sometimes the oceanic plate is forced under the continental plate and many earthquakes and volcanic eruptions result. This is called subduction.
