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Current   /kˈərənt/  /kərnt/  /kˈɑrənt/   Listen
Current

adjective
1.
Occurring in or belonging to the present time.  "The current topic" , "Current negotiations" , "Current psychoanalytic theories" , "The ship's current position"
noun
1.
A flow of electricity through a conductor.  Synonym: electric current.
2.
A steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes).  Synonym: stream.  "He felt a stream of air" , "The hose ejected a stream of water"
3.
Dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas.  Synonyms: flow, stream.  "Stream of consciousness" , "The flow of thought" , "The current of history"



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"Current" Quotes from Famous Books



... strong intellectual juices sank into that sweet, pliant kernel, developing it into the perfected form of woman, establishing the current between the brain and the passions, finishing the work, or leaving it half completed, as ...
— The Doomswoman - An Historical Romance of Old California • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

... of principles," said Miss Evans, her face glowing with earnest thought, "but the signs of the times are now glorious. Men will no longer feed on husks and dry bones. The call is every day for light, more light, and theories are fast giving place to human experiences. A strong current of individual life, too, is setting in, which inspires every speaker and writer with high and noble thoughts, and they are forced to give bread and not stones to the multitude. We shall, I hope, Mr. Deane, live to see the coming ...
— Dawn • Mrs. Harriet A. Adams

... my book will be neglected because avowedly by a Catholic author, and from a Catholic publishing house. They who are not Catholics will read it, and it will enter into the current of American literature, if it is one they must read in order to be up with the living and growing thought of the age. If it is not a book of that sort, it is not worth reading by ...
— The American Republic: Its Constitution, Tendencies, and Destiny • A. O. Brownson

... campaign of Lille, and above all after the expulsion of the Duc de Vendome from Marly and Meudon; yet after the marriage of the Duc de Berry his coldness had still further increased. The adroit Princess, it is true, had rowed against the current with a steadiness and grace capable of disarming even a well-founded resentment; but the persons who surrounded him looked upon the meeting of them as dangerous for their projects. The Duc and Duchesse de Bourgogne were every day still further removed ...
— The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, Complete • Duc de Saint-Simon

... an exhaustive treatment of a subject it would be difficult enough to exhaust, and it is dealt with in a way intended to bear rather upon the practical work of an art school, and to be suggestive and helpful to those face to face with the current ...
— Line and Form (1900) • Walter Crane


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