wind; air current; current of air




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"

Type of:
  • weather; weather condition; conditions; atmospheric condition

Types:
  • airstream
  • calm air; calm
  • breeze; zephyr; gentle wind; air
  • chinook; chinook wind; snow eater
  • harmattan
  • crosswind
  • fohn; foehn
  • khamsin
  • Santa Ana
  • high wind
  • headwind
  • katabatic wind; catabatic wind
  • tailwind
  • doldrums
  • east wind; easter; easterly
  • northwest wind; northwester
  • southwester; sou'wester
  • southeaster; sou'easter
  • gale
  • gust; blast; blow
  • monsoon
  • monsoon
  • north wind; northerly; norther; boreas
  • prevailing wind
  • simoom; simoon; samiel
  • south wind; souther; southerly
  • squall
  • thermal
  • draft; draught
  • west wind; wester


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