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Meaning of 'current'
Meaning of 'current' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Current 
[ a.]
- Running or moving rapidly. [ a.]- Now passing, as time; as, the current month.
- 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.
- Commonly estimated or acknowledged.
- Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable.
- 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.
- General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion, etc.
Meaning of 'current' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. current [ n]
[ n]Meaning (1):
- a flow of electricity through a conductor
- a flow of electricity through a conductor
Example in sentence:
- the current was measured in amperes
Meaning (2):
- a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes)
- a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes)
Example in sentence:
- he felt a stream of air;
- the hose ejected a stream of water;
- the raft floated downstream on the current
Meaning (3):
- dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas
- dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas
Example in sentence:
- stream of consciousness;
- the current of history;
- the flow of thought;
- two streams of development run through American history
2. current [ a]
[ a]Meaning (4):
- occurring in or belonging to the present time
- occurring in or belonging to the present time
Example in sentence:
- current events;
- current negotiations;
- current psychoanalytic theories;
- the current topic;
- the ship's current position
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