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Meaning of 'current' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Current [ a.]
- Running or moving rapidly.
- 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]
Meaning (1):
- 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 (2):
- 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
Meaning (3):
- a flow of electricity through a conductor
Example in sentence:
  • the current was measured in amperes
4 . current [ a]
Meaning (4):
- 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

Nearby Words:

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