Current Of Air (Noun)
Meaning
Air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure; "trees bent under the fierce winds"; "when there is no wind, row"; "the radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere".
Classification
Nouns denoting natural phenomena.
Synonyms
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
- Headwind
- Katabatic Wind
- Santa Ana
- East Wind
- Chinook
- Easter
- North Wind
- Languor
- Blast
- West Wind
- Gale
- High Wind
- Airstream
- Northwest Wind
- Breeze
- Zephyr
- Foehn
- Sou'wester
- Southeaster
- Doldrums
- Simoon
- Simoom
- Crosswind
- Northerly
- Wester
- Boreas
- Chinook Wind
- Prevailing Wind
- Thermal
- Harmattan
- Khamsin
- South Wind
- Monsoon
- Squall
- Calm
- Tailwind
- Sou'easter
- Calm Air
- Fohn
- Gust
- Souther
- Draught
- Air
- Northwester
- Catabatic Wind
- Draft
- Southwester