'Current' definitions:
Definition of 'current'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Occurring in or belonging to the present time; "current events"; "the current topic"; "current negotiations"; "current psychoanalytic theories"; "the ship's current position" [ant: noncurrent]
noun
A flow of electricity through a conductor; "the current was measured in amperes" [syn: current, electric current]
noun
A steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes); "the raft floated downstream on the current"; "he felt a stream of air"; "the hose ejected a stream of water" [syn: current, stream]
noun
Definition of 'Current'
From: GCIDE
- Current \Cur"rent\ (k?r"rent), a. [OE. currant, OF. curant, corant, p. pr. of curre, corre, F. courre, courir, to run, from L. currere; perh. akin to E. horse. Cf. Course, Concur, Courant, Coranto.]
- 1. Running or moving rapidly. [Archaic] [1913 Webster]
- Like the current fire, that renneth Upon a cord. --Gower. [1913 Webster]
- To chase a creature that was current then In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Now passing, as time; as, the current month. [1913 Webster]
- 3. 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. [1913 Webster]
- That there was current money in Abraham's time is past doubt. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
- Your fire-new stamp of honor is scarce current. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- His current value, which is less or more as men have occasion for him. --Grew. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Commonly estimated or acknowledged. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable. [1913 Webster]
- O Buckingham, now do I play the touch To try if thou be current gold indeed. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Account current. See under Account.
- Current money, lawful money. --Abbott. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Current'
From: GCIDE
- Current \Cur"rent\, n. [Cf. F. courant. See Current, a. ] [1913 Webster]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- Two such silver currents, when they join, Do glorify the banks that bound them in. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- The surface of the ocean is furrowed by currents, whose direction . . . the navigator should know. --Nichol. [1913 Webster]
- 2. General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion, etc. [1913 Webster]
- Current meter, an instrument for measuring the velocity, force, etc., of currents.
- Current mill, a mill driven by a current wheel.
- Current wheel, a wheel dipping into the water and driven by the current of a stream or by the ebb and flow of the tide.
- Syn: Stream; course. See Stream. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'current'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a la mode,
- absorption current,
- AC,
- accepted,
- accessible,
- accidental,
- accompanying,
- accustomed,
- active current,
- actual,
- ado,
- advance,
- advised,
- affirmed,
- affluence,
- afflux,
- affluxion,
- afloat,
- afoot,
- aim,
- air current,
- all the rage,
- all the thing,
- alternating current,
- angular motion,
- announced,
- as is,
- ascending,
- ascent,
- au courant,
- au fait,
- average,
- aware,
- axial motion,
- azimuth,
- backflowing,
- backing,
- backward motion,
- bandied about,
- base current,
- bearing,
- being,
- bent,
- besetting,
- broadcast,
- brought to notice,
- Brownian movement,
- bruited about,
- career,
- cathode current,
- circulated,
- circumstantial,
- climbing,
- coeval,
- collector current,
- common,
- common knowledge,
- common property,
- commonly known,
- commonplace,
- concourse,
- conduction current,
- confluence,
- conflux,
- conformable,
- consuetudinary,
- contemporaneous,
- contemporary,
- convection current,
- conventional,
- course,
- crosscurrent,
- current of air,
- customary,
- cycle,
- DC,
- declared,
- defluxion,
- delta current,
- descending,
- descent,
- dielectric displacement current,
- diffused,
- direct current,
- direction,
- direction line,
- displacement current,
- disseminated,
- distributed,
- doing,
- dominant,
- downdraft,
- downflow,
- downpour,
- downward motion,
- draft,
- drift,
- driftage,
- ebbing,
- eddy current,
- electric current,
- electric stream,
- electron cloud,
- electron flow,
- electron gas,
- electron stream,
- emission current,
- epidemic,
- established,
- eventuating,
- everyday,
- exciting current,
- existent,
- existing,
- extant,
- fall wind,
- familiar,
- fashionable,
- flight,
- flood,
- flow,
- flow of air,
- flowing,
- fluency,
- flux,
- following wind,
- forward motion,
- free alternating current,
- fresh,
- galvanic current,
- generally accepted,
- glacial movement,
- going about,
- going around,
- going on,
- gush,
- habitual,
- hackneyed,
- happening,
- head wind,
- heading,
- helmsmanship,
- high-frequency current,
- hip,
- household,
- idle current,
- immanent,
- immediate,
- in being,
- in circulation,
- in effect,
- in existence,
- in fashion,
- in force,
- in hand,
- in print,
- in style,
- in the air,
- in the know,
- in the news,
- in the wind,
- in vogue,
- incidental,
- inclination,
- indraft,
- induced current,
- induction current,
- inflow,
- informed,
- inhalation,
- inrush,
- inspiration,
- instant,
- ionization current,
- jetstream,
- juice,
- katabatic wind,
- known,
- latest,
- lay,
- lie,
- line,
- line of direction,
- line of march,
- living,
- low-frequency current,
- made public,
- magnetizing current,
- main current,
- mainstream,
- mill run,
- millrace,
- mod,
- modern,
- modish,
- monsoon,
- motion,
- mounting,
- movement,
- movement of air,
- multiphase current,
- navigation,
- new,
- newfashioned,
- normal,
- normative,
- notorious,
- oblique motion,
- obtaining,
- occasional,
- occurring,
- on,
- on foot,
- ongoing,
- onrush,
- onward course,
- open,
- ordinary,
- orientation,
- outflow,
- output current,
- pandemic,
- passage,
- passing,
- piloting,
- plate current,
- platitudinous,
- plunging,
- point,
- popular,
- posted,
- predominant,
- predominating,
- prescribed,
- prescriptive,
- present,
- present-age,
- present-day,
- present-time,
- prevailing,
- prevalent,
- proclaimed,
- progress,
- propagated,
- proverbial,
- public,
- published,
- pulsating direct current,
- quarter,
- race,
- radial motion,
- rampant,
- random motion,
- range,
- reactive current,
- received,
- reflowing,
- refluence,
- reflux,
- regnant,
- regression,
- regular,
- regulation,
- reigning,
- reported,
- resultant,
- retrogression,
- rife,
- rising,
- rotary current,
- routine,
- ruling,
- rumored,
- run,
- running,
- rush,
- set,
- sideward motion,
- simultaneous,
- single-phase alternating current,
- sinking,
- smart,
- soaring,
- space charge,
- spate,
- spread,
- standard,
- stated,
- steerage,
- steering,
- stereotyped,
- sternway,
- stock,
- stray current,
- stream,
- stream of air,
- stylish,
- subsiding,
- subsistent,
- subsisting,
- surge,
- swing,
- tail wind,
- taking place,
- talked about,
- talked-about,
- talked-of,
- telecast,
- televised,
- tendency,
- tenor,
- that be,
- that is,
- the general tendency,
- the main course,
- thermionic current,
- thermoelectric current,
- three-phase alternating current,
- tide,
- time spirit,
- time-honored,
- tone,
- topical,
- track,
- traditional,
- traject,
- trajet,
- trend,
- trendy,
- trite,
- truistic,
- under the sun,
- under way,
- undercurrent,
- undertow,
- universal,
- universally admitted,
- universally recognized,
- up-to-date,
- up-to-datish,
- up-to-the-minute,
- updraft,
- upward motion,
- usual,
- vernacular,
- voltaic current,
- water flow,
- watt current,
- way,
- well-kenned,
- well-known,
- well-recognized,
- well-understood,
- whispered,
- whispered about,
- widely known,
- widespread,
- wind,
- wonted,
- Zeitgeist
Words containing 'Current'
- Currently,
- Currentness,
- Account current,
- Current meter,
- Current mill,
- Current money,
- Current wheel,
- Delta current,
- Direct current,
- Eddy current,
- Electric current,
- Foucault current,
- Guinea Current,
- Induced current,
- Japan current,
- Phasing current,
- Price current,
- Secondary current,
- Sneak current,
- Y current,
- air current,
- alternating current,
- continuous current,
- current account,
- current assets,
- current electricity,
- current intelligence,
- current of air,
- current unit,
- electrical current,
- equatorial current,
- garden current,
- humboldt current,
- kuroshio current,
- ocean current,
- peruvian current,
- rip current,
- thermionic current,
- tidal current,
- A direct induced current,
- alternating electric current,
- direct electric current,
- north equatorial current,
- south equatorial current