Found 4 items, similar to Currents.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: current
arus
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: current
aktual, aliran, arus, jaman mutakhir, masa kini
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: current
current
adj : 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]
current
n 1: a flow of electricity through a conductor;
“the current was
measured in amperes” [syn:
electric current]
2: a steady flow (usually from natural causes);
“the raft
floated downstream on the current”;
“he felt a stream of
air” [syn:
stream]
3: 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” [syn:
stream,
flow]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Current
Current
\Cur"rent\, n. [Cf. F. courant. See
Current, a. ]
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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.
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Two such silver currents, when they join,
Do glorify the banks that bound them in. --Shak.
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The surface of the ocean is furrowed by currents,
whose direction . . . the navigator should know.
--Nichol.
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2. General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and
connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of
opinion, etc.
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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.
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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]
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Like the current fire, that renneth
Upon a cord. --Gower.
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To chase a creature that was current then
In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns.
--Tennyson.
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2. Now passing, as time; as, the current month.
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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.
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That there was current money in Abraham's time is
past doubt. --Arbuthnot.
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Your fire-new stamp of honor is scarce current.
--Shak.
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His current value, which is less or more as men have
occasion for him. --Grew.
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4. Commonly estimated or acknowledged.
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5. Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic;
passable.
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O Buckingham, now do I play the touch
To try if thou be current gold indeed. --Shak.
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Account current. See under
Account.
Current money, lawful money. --Abbott.
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