Consider these examples: There’s a wind blowing through here tonight. A wind is a current of air that is moving across the earth's surface. Open the doors, I want to get a breeze. Why do we use the indefinite article with the nouns “wind”, and “breeze” in such cases? I mean we are talking abo...

I used to compile my own dictionary on one Russian website. Using several dictionaries as well as surfing the internet, I made about 2,000 entries (it included both words and idioms). Unfortunately, it was then destroyed due to some glitch on the website's part, I guess. I was heartbroken and gav...