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Current

adjective

Occurring in or belonging to the present time. "The current topic" , "Current negotiations" , "Current psychoanalytic theories" , "The ship's current position"

noun

A flow of electricity through a conductor. Synonym: electric current.

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"

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

... spite of increase in productive power, do wages tend to a minimum which will give but a bare living? The answer of current political economy is that wages are fixed by the ratio between the number of labourers and the amount of capital devoted to the employment of labour, and constantly tend to the lowest amount on which labourers will consent to live and reproduce; because the increase in ...

— The World's Greatest Books--Volume 14--Philosophy and Economics • Various

... of astronomy led him to accomplish one important change, for which we have reason to remember him to-day. He reformed the calendar, substituting the one used until 1582 (known from him as the Julian calendar) for that which was then current. [Footnote: The Gregorian calendar was introduced in the Catholic states of Europe in 1582, but owing to popular prejudice England did not begin to use it until 1752, in which year September 3d became, by act of Parliament, ...

— The Story of Rome From the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic • Arthur Gilman

... had its chance, nor seems yet to have had another. Other towns, some not far from it, lying nearer the main lines of travel, have been swept into the current of modern life, but not yet Clarendon. There the grass grows thicker in the streets. The meditative cows still graze in the vacant lot between the post-office and the bank, where the public library was to stand. The old academy has grown more dilapidated than ever, and a large section ...

— The Colonel's Dream • Charles W. Chesnutt

... induces counter currents underneath, and they stimulate all the sensory nerves we've got—of our eyes and ears and noses as well as our skin. Every nerve reports its own kind of sensation. Run current over your tongue, and you taste. Induce a current in your eyes, and you see flashes of light. So the beam makes all our senses report everything they're capable of reporting, true or not, and we're blinded and deafened. Then the nerves to our muscles report to them that they're to contract, ...

— Operation Terror • William Fitzgerald Jenkins

... most part never heard. It is in this column that I have just made the acquaintance of The Shoe Manufacturers' Monthly, the journal to which the elect turn eagerly upon each new moon. (Its one-time rival, The Footwear Fortnightly, has, I am told, quite lost its following.) The bon mot of the current number of The S.M.M. is a note to the effect that Kaffirs have a special fondness for boots which make a noise. I quote this simply as an excuse for referring to the old problem of the squeaky boots and the squeaky collar; the problem, in fact, ...

— Not that it Matters • A. A. Milne

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