Wind vs. Current

Windnoun

Real or perceived movement of atmospheric air usually caused by convection or differences in air pressure.

Windnoun

Air artificially put in motion by any force or action.

Windnoun

The ability to breathe easily.

Windnoun

News of an event, especially by hearsay or gossip. (Used with catch, often in the past tense.)

Windnoun

One of the five basic elements (see Wikipedia article on the Classical elements).

Windnoun

Flatus.

Windnoun

Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.

Windnoun

(music) The woodwind section of an orchestra. Occasionally also used to include the brass section.

Windnoun

A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called the "four winds".

Windnoun

Types of playing-tile in the game of mah-jongg, named after the four winds.

Windnoun

A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.

Windnoun

Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.

Windnoun

A bird, the dotterel.

Windnoun

The region of the solar plexus, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury.

Windnoun

The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist.

Windverb

(transitive) To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound.

Windverb

(transitive) To cause (someone) to become breathless, often by a blow to the abdomen.

Windverb

(reflexive) To exhaust oneself to the point of being short of breath.

Windverb

(British) To turn a boat or ship around, so that the wind strikes it on the opposite side.

Windverb

(transitive) To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.

Windverb

(transitive) To perceive or follow by scent.

Windverb

(transitive) To rest (a horse, etc.) in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe.

Windverb

(transitive) To turn a windmill so that its sails face into the wind.

Windverb

(transitive) To turn coils of (a cord or something similar) around something.

Windverb

(transitive) To tighten the spring of a clockwork mechanism such as that of a clock.

Windverb

To entwist; to enfold; to encircle.

Windverb

(ergative) To travel, or to cause something to travel, in a way that is not straight.

Windverb

To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern.

Windverb

To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.

Windverb

To cover or surround with something coiled about.

Windverb

To make a winding motion.

Windverb

To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twine; to twist; to wreathe; as, to wind thread on a spool or into a ball.

Windverb

To entwist; to infold; to encircle.

Windverb

To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern.

Windverb

To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate.

Windverb

To cover or surround with something coiled about; as, to wind a rope with twine.

Windverb

To turn completely or repeatedly; to become coiled about anything; to assume a convolved or spiral form; as, vines wind round a pole.

Windverb

To have a circular course or direction; to crook; to bend; to meander; as, to wind in and out among trees.

Windverb

To go to the one side or the other; to move this way and that; to double on one's course; as, a hare pursued turns and winds.

Windverb

To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate.

Windverb

To perceive or follow by the scent; to scent; to nose; as, the hounds winded the game.

Windverb

To drive hard, or force to violent exertion, as a horse, so as to render scant of wind; to put out of breath.

Windverb

To blow; to sound by blowing; esp., to sound with prolonged and mutually involved notes.

Windnoun

The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist; a winding.

Windnoun

Air naturally in motion with any degree of velocity; a current of air.

Windnoun

Air artificially put in motion by any force or action; as, the wind of a cannon ball; the wind of a bellows.

Windnoun

Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument.

Windnoun

Power of respiration; breath.

Windnoun

Air or gas generated in the stomach or bowels; flatulence; as, to be troubled with wind.

Windnoun

Air impregnated with an odor or scent.

Windnoun

A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called the four winds.

Windnoun

A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing.

Windnoun

Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words.

Windnoun

The dotterel.

Windnoun

The region of the pit of the stomach, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury; the mark.

Windnoun

air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure;

Windnoun

a tendency or force that influences events;

Windnoun

breath;

Windnoun

empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk;

Windnoun

an indication of potential opportunity;

Windnoun

a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath

Windnoun

a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus

Windnoun

the act of winding or twisting;

Windverb

to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course;

Windverb

extend in curves and turns;

Windverb

wrap or coil around;

Windverb

catch the scent of; get wind of;

Windverb

coil the spring of (some mechanical device) by turning a stem;

Windverb

form into a wreath

Windverb

raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help;

Wind

Wind is the natural movement of air or other gases relative to a planet's surface. Wind occurs on a range of scales, from thunderstorm flows lasting tens of minutes, to local breezes generated by heating of land surfaces and lasting a few hours, to global winds resulting from the difference in absorption of solar energy between the climate zones on Earth.

Currentnoun

The part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction.

Currentnoun

(electricity) The time rate of flow of electric charge.

Currentnoun

A tendency or a course of events.

Currentadjective

Existing or occurring at the moment.

Currentadjective

Generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment.

Currentadjective

(obsolete) Running or moving rapidly.

Currentadjective

Running or moving rapidly.

Currentadjective

Now passing, as time; as, the current month.

Currentadjective

Passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulating through the community; generally received; common; as, a current coin; a current report; current history.

Currentadjective

Commonly estimated or acknowledged.

Currentadjective

Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable.

Currentnoun

A flowing or passing; onward motion. Hence: A body of fluid moving continuously in a certain direction; a stream; esp., the swiftest part of it; as, a current of water or of air; that which resembles a stream in motion; as, a current of electricity.

Currentnoun

General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion, etc.

Currentnoun

a flow of electricity through a conductor;

Currentnoun

a steady flow (usually from natural causes);

Currentnoun

dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas;

Currentadjective

occurring in or belonging to the present time;

Currentadjective

belonging to the present time; happening or being used or done now

Currentadjective

in common or general use

Currentnoun

a body of water or air moving in a definite direction, especially through a surrounding body of water or air in which there is less movement

Currentnoun

a flow of electricity which results from the ordered directional movement of electrically charged particles

Currentnoun

a quantity representing the rate of flow of electric charge, usually measured in amperes

Currentnoun

the general tendency or course of events or opinion