CURRENT

current

(adjective) occurring in or belonging to the present time; “current events”; “the current topic”; “current negotiations”; “current psychoanalytic theories”; “the ship’s current position”

current, stream

(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”

stream, flow, current

(noun) dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas; “two streams of development run through American history”; “stream of consciousness”; “the flow of thought”; “the current of history”

current, electric current

(noun) a flow of electricity through a conductor; “the current was measured in amperes”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

current (countable and uncountable, plural currents)

The generally unidirectional movement of a gas or fluid.

the part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction, especially (oceanography) short for ocean current.

Synonyms: flow, stream

(electricity) the time rate of flow of electric charge.

Synonym: electric current

a tendency or a course of events

Synonyms: flow, stream, tendency

Adjective

current (comparative currenter or more current, superlative currentest or most current)

existing or occurring at the moment

Synonyms: present, Thesaurus:present

Antonyms: future, past

generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment

Synonyms: fashionable, prevailing, prevalent, rife, up-to-date, Thesaurus:fashionable

Antonyms: out-of-date, unfashionable, Thesaurus:unfashionable

(obsolete) running or moving rapidly

Synonym: speeding

Anagrams

• Curtner

Proper noun

Current (plural Currents)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Current is the 12269^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2535 individuals. Current is most common among White (88.09%) individuals.

Anagrams

• Curtner

Source: Wiktionary

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Cur"rent (kr"rent), a. Etym: [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] Like the current fire, that renneth Upon a cord. Gower. To chase a creature that was current then In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns. Tennyson.

2. Now passing, as time; as, the current month.

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. That there was current money in Abraham's time is past doubt. Arbuthnot. Your fire-new stamp of honor is scarce current. Shak. His current value, which is less or more as men have occasion for him. Grew.

4. Commonly estimated or acknowledged.

5. Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable. O Buckingham, now do I play the touch To try if thou be current gold indeed. Shak. Account current. See under Account.

– Current money, lawful money. Abbott.

Cur"rent, n. Etym: [Cf. F. courant. See Current, a. ]

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. Two such silver currents, when they join, Do glorify the banks that bound them in. Shak. The surface of the ocean is furrowed by currents, whose direction . . . the navigator should know. Nichol.

2. General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion, etc. 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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