current of air vs calm air

calm air vs current of air

current of air and calm air both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
current of air	Yes	No	No	No
calm air	Yes	No	No	No

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

current of air: air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure
calm air: wind moving at less than 1 knot; 0 on the Beaufort scale

Other hyponyms of current of air include airstream, calm, air, breeze, gentle wind, zephyr, chinook, chinook wind, 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.

current of air (noun)	calm air (noun)
air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure	wind moving at less than 1 knot; 0 on the Beaufort scale

Difference between current of air and calm air

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