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Meaning current meaning

What does current mean?
Definitions in simple English

current

Something that is current is up to date. This news is current. We bought our home 20 years ago, but we couldn't buy it at current prices.

current

Current is movement in a fluid. There is a strong current in that water. Current is movement in electricity. It has a current of nine amperes.

current

occurring in or belonging to the present time current events the current topic current negotiations current psychoanalytic theories the ship's current position a flow of electricity through a conductor the current was measured in amperes (= stream) a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes) the raft floated downstream on the current he felt a stream of air the hose ejected a stream of water (= stream, flow) 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

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Topics current topics

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  • What words refer to the movement of a river?

Examples current examples

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Simple sentences

Many current movies are trash.
The figurative meaning is no longer in current use.
The current of this river is rapid.
Honesty doesn't pay under the current tax system.
I'm satisfied with my current income.
We couldn't row against the strong current.
We were rowing against the current.
It has a big whirlpool and a strong current.
An electric current can generate magnetism.
Our price is considerably higher than the current market price.
Rumors were current about him.
He is trying to keep up with the current of the times.
Let's try and swim against the current.
Silvio Berlusconi is an Italian politician, the current Prime Minister of Italy, as well as a successful entrepreneur.
We rowed up the river against the current.
The probability of this chain of events is one in two million flights - about once every two months at current levels of air traffic.
It will be some time before the economy will move out of the current doldrums.
In the current slump, economic growth has fallen to zero percent.
The teacher tried to interest the students in current events.
When a coil is moved near to a wire with current flowing in it current flows in the coil as well.

Movie subtitles

I am Elder McKinley, current district leader for this area of the Uganda mission.
And I believe that the current President of the Church, Thomas Monson, speaks directly to God!
With the nearest star 400 trillion kilometres away, our current technology could get us there in, say, 1 00,000 years, so travelling to see an alien civilisation clearly isn't going to work.
She probably drowned or was pulled away by the current.
So basically all your current memories will be erased.
You will continue at your current wage.
Her current whereabouts are not known.
This action only responds when the current is applied.
Shall I increase the current?
There's a five-knot current running between here and that island.
You see, I'm conducting an investigation on current slang.
I can figure out most anything if you give me electric current, tubes and wires - something I can do with my hands.
I want the current schedule of the patrol planes.
And the current carried him on down to the ocean. And he never got back.
The current director, who was also the founder, was able to build it in a single generation. But strangely, no one has actually seen the director lately.
He's been on staff at his current high school for the last 12 years, diligent and had a great work ethic.
Arnold Knox is its current patriarch and its seventh head.
That's precisely why I want to guide them, to help them become better versions of their current selves.
Well, since there's no convection current like the sea has, you're not gonna find any oxygen on a lake bottom.
The current gets her in deeper, and tried to pull her out, a shaft snaps in two. like a stick of macaroni.
The current will take you to Lohara. -That's easy enough.
I don't think the current is switched on yet.
And the current carried him on down to the ocean.
Travel or current events?
Oh, not current events. We get current events.
You know of her current condition as well.
When the proof was filmed, was there any trap or conciliation from the current King?
The current situation is quite bad. If this continues for 6 months, the recovery period of the economy in our country, will be fatally affected.
Tore felt how the current got hold of him and used his last ounce of strength. to avoid falling prey to the enormous forces of nature.
HA HA HA! THAT'S THE ELECTRIC CURRENT.
YEAH. HE SAW ME SWITCH OFF THE CURRENT AND OPEN THE SAFE.
What matters now is the solution to our current problem. and I have a hunch the answer is on that piece of paper you found.
Local police closed in on them-- --current wave of robberies.
There is no current.
In his current state he's apt to leave them anywhere.
Your current wealth?

News and current affairs

Indeed, America's current-account position strengthened despite the dollar's appreciation in the face of safe-haven demand.
Now, with household debt sustained on a knife-edge after feverish government intervention, the fiscal position has deteriorated dramatically and the current-account balance has worsened again.
In the short run, the US current-account deficit will remain, regardless of which country runs bilateral surpluses.
Thus, China's continued reinvestment of its current-account surplus in US government securities is of utmost important for US growth and financial stability.
Given that America benefits mightily from China's purchases of US government securities, it is difficult to understand why the US government and Congress have been complaining so much about the bilateral current-account deficit.
The good news is that, following President Hu Jintao's recent visit to Washington, both America and China have been taking positive steps to resolve their differences over the bilateral current-account balance.
Iran is the most current example of this.
The current aid structures are inadequate.
Because the poor have so little money to spend, drug companies, under current arrangements, have little incentive to do research on the diseases that afflict them.
A solution to both high prices and misdirected research is to replace the current model with a government-supported prize fund.
His bill also contains an important provision aimed at encouraging open-source research, which would move the current research model away from secrecy toward sharing.
But, without further profound political and economic integration - which may not end up including all current eurozone members - the euro may not make it even to the end of this decade.
According to Gleb Pavlovsky, the Putin regime's leading ideologist, the current Russian system is perfect in all respects but one: it doesn't know its enemies.
After all, it hesitated little a few years ago to put a current member state, Austria, on notice that it was watching out for the welfare of that country's democracy.
And, given the current rage for all things Bollywood in France, a lavish Indian wedding would be fitting.
In this respect, India more resembles the France with which Sarkozy wants to make a clean break than the current one.
The EU must instead show leadership through its efforts to solve the world's current problems.
This does not mean an increase in overall taxation, but simply a substitution in each country of a pollution (carbon) tax for some current taxes.

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