CURRENT
\kˈʌɹənt], \kˈʌɹənt], \k_ˈʌ_ɹ_ə_n_t]\
Definitions of CURRENT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Running or moving rapidly.
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Now passing, as time; as, the current month.
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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.
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Commonly estimated or acknowledged.
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Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable.
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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.
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General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion, etc.
By Oddity Software
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Widely circulated; passing from hand to hand; now passing, as time; generally accepted; common; as, the current opinion.
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A flow or passing; said of fluids; body of air or water flowing in a certain direction; a movement of electricity, or the rate of such movement.
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Currently.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Currently.
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Running or flowing: passing from person to person: generally received: now passing: present.
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A running or flowing: a stream: a portion of water or air moving in a certain direction: course.
By Daniel Lyons
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Currently.
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Circulating freely; generally accepted.
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In actual progress; present.
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A movement as of a stream; a fluid thus flowing; any connected onward movement; course.
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Currentness.
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. A flowing of water in a particular direction; a stream;—general course; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement.
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Circulatory, passing from hand to hand; generally received, uncontradicted, authoritative; common, general; popular, such as is established by vulgar estimation; fashionable, popular; passable, such as may be allowed or admitted; what is now passing, as the current year.
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A running stream; currents are certain progressive motions of the water of the sea in several places.
By Thomas Sheridan
