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Meanings of air current in English

Portuguese
vento
Catalan
vent
Spanish
viento

Air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure.

vento
Russian
течение воздуха
Portuguese
corrente de ar
Spanish
flujo de aire

Movement of air through a region of space, indoors or outdoors.

течение воздуха
Synonyms
Examples for "wind"
Examples for "wind"
1
Before he had gone far, however, the south wind brought steady rain.
Earth Abides
2
Family solidarity was gone with the wind; Marguerite had seen to that.
11/22/63
3
Good tidings; no weather catastrophes; no wind-trashed hospitality areas or sunken greens.
The Irish Times
4
The change in the wind was altogether in favor of the brigantine.
The Water-Witch; Or, the Skimmer of the Seas: A Tale
5
They presented statistics for wind speeds, sea level pressures, and energy spectra.
The wave: in pursuit of the rogues, freaks and giants of the oce...
1
He threw open the window and let in a current of air.
The Tempting of Tavernake
2
Drift, to-Tobe carried by a current of air; to make leeway.
The Aeroplane Speaks
3
The remedy is to admit a small current of air from without.
American Woman's Home: Or, Principles of Domestic Science; / Bei...
4
All at once I felt a cold current of air about me.
Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume III, Part 2: 1907-1910
5
As they dry, however, the current of air should be more gentle.
Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses
Usage of air current in English
1
The air current was funnelling them into the mouth of a canyon.
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
2
An air current brought the promise of dawn into the ward.
King Rat
3
Would it be cheating to wave your paddle and make an air current?
Wired
4
The dense cloud lifted for a moment, swept away by an air current.
Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a ...
5
It was carried by an air current of some kind.
Blameless
6
It falls, then spins and hovers on the air current.
Breathe
7
No possible air current could have moved those draperies.
Ghosts
8
They called my name, and my body moved like through an air current very quickly.
Evidence of the afterlife: the science of near-death experiences
9
A vowel sound is the result of an uninterrupted flow of the vibratory air current.
The Renaissance of the Vocal Art / A Practical Study of Vitality...
10
There was just a suggestion of an air current.
The Young Wireless Operator—As a Fire Patrol / Or, The Story of ...
11
I-er-mislaid him in a very dangerous air current.
Diane of the Green Van
12
Maps many have we, nowadays clear in display of earth constituent, air current, and ocean tide.
On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) / A Collection of Miscellaneous E...
13
An air current which sets up in an opposite direction in the path of a moving aeroplane.
Aeroplanes
14
Usually the concentrated air current fried them, but sometimes one survived and was blasted to the surface.
Artemis Fowl
15
A box car was carried along by the terrific air current for a quarter of a mile.
The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Torna...
16
He did not wish to chance rising to some higher air current that would bear him away.
The Chessmen of Mars