air current vs chinook wind

chinook wind vs air current

air current and chinook wind both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
air current	Yes	No	No	No
chinook wind	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, chinook wind is a hyponym of air current; that is, chinook wind is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than air current:

air current: air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure
chinook wind: a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies

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

air current (noun)	chinook wind (noun)
air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure	a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies

Difference between air current and chinook wind

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