current of air vs prevailing wind

prevailing wind vs current of air

current of air and prevailing wind both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
current of air	Yes	No	No	No
prevailing wind	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, prevailing wind is a hyponym of current of air; that is, prevailing wind 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
prevailing wind: the predominant wind direction

Other hyponyms of current of air include airstream, calm, calm air, 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, samiel, simoom, simoon, south wind, souther, southerly, squall, thermal, draft, draught, west wind, wester.

current of air (noun)	prevailing wind (noun)
air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure	the predominant wind direction

Difference between current of air and prevailing wind

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