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Current   /kˈərənt/  /kərnt/  /kˈɑrənt/   Listen
adjective
Current  adj.  
1.
Running or moving rapidly. (Archaic) "Like the current fire, that renneth Upon a cord." "To chase a creature that was current then In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns."
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." "Your fire-new stamp of honor is scarce current." "His current value, which is less or more as men have occasion for him."
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."
Account current. See under Account.
Current money, lawful money.


noun
Current  n.  
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." "The surface of the ocean is furrowed by currents, whose direction... the navigator should know."
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.
Synonyms: Stream; course. See Stream.





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... 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 ...
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... 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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