Current

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  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Belonging to the present time.
  • adjective. Being in progress now.
  • adjective. Passing from one to another; circulating.
  • adjective. Prevalent, especially at the present time: synonym: prevailing.
  • adjective. Running; flowing.
  • noun. A steady, smooth onward flow or movement: synonym: flow.
  • noun. The part of a body of liquid or gas that has a continuous onward movement.
  • noun. A general tendency, movement, or course. synonym: tendency.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A flow of electric charge.
  • noun. The amount of electric charge flowing past a specified circuit point per unit time.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To make current or common; establish in common estimation; render acceptable.
  • noun. An obsolete spelling of currant.
  • Running; moving; flowing; passing.
  • Hence Passing from one to another; especially, widely circulated; publicly known, believed, or reported; common; general; prevalent; as, the current ideas of the day.
  • Passing from hand to hand; circulating: as, current coin.
  • Established by common estimation or consent; generally received: as, the current value of coin.
  • Entitled to credit or recognition; fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; genuine.
  • Now passing; present in its course: as, the current month or year.
  • noun. A flowing; a flow; a stream; a passing by a continuous flux: used of fluids, as water, air, etc., or of supposed fluids, as electricity.
  • noun. Specifically, a portion of a large body of water or of air moving in a certain direction: as, ocean-currents.
  • noun. Course in general; progressive movement or passage; connected series: as, the current of time.
  • noun. General or main course; general tendency: as, the current of opinion.
  • noun. The amount of depression given to a roof to cause the water which falls upon it to flow in a given direction.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Running or moving rapidly.
  • adjective. Now passing, as time.
  • adjective. Passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulating through the community; generally received; common.
  • adjective. Commonly estimated or acknowledged.
  • adjective. Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable.
  • adjective. See under Account.
  • adjective. lawful money.
  • noun. 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; ; that which resembles a stream in motion.
  • noun. General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement
  • noun. an instrument for measuring the velocity, force, etc., of currents.
  • noun. a mill driven by a current wheel.
  • noun. a wheel dipping into the water and driven by the current of a stream or by the ebb and flow of the tide.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction.
  • noun. The time rate of flow of electric charge.
  • noun. A tendency or a course of events.
  • adjective. Existing or occurring at the moment.
  • adjective. Generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a flow of electricity through a conductor
  • noun. a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes)
  • adjective. occurring in or belonging to the present time
  • noun. dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas
  • Equivalent
    Form
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    course  line  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Same Context
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    abstract  alike  consent  cry  cut  
    Synonym
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