Current

Noun

 * 1) The part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction.
 * 2) The time rate of flow of electric charge.
 * 3) * Symbol: I (inclined upper case letter "I")
 * 4) * Units:
 * SI: ampere (A)
 * CGS: esu/second (esu/s)
 * 1) A tendency or a course of events.

Synonyms

 * (part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction): flow, stream
 * (time rate of flow of electric charge): electric current
 * (tendency or course of events): flow, stream, tendency

Derived terms

 * undercurrent

Adjective

 * 1) Existing or occurring at the moment.
 * current events
 * current leaders
 * current negotiations
 * 1) Generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment.
 * current affairs
 * current bills and coins
 * current fashions

Synonyms

 * (existing or occurring at the moment): present
 * (generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment): fashionable, prevailing, prevalent, rife, up-to-date

Antonyms

 * (existing or occurring at the moment): future, past
 * (generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment): out-of-date, unfashionable

Adjectives
friendly; irresistible; dangerous; treacherous; gentle; perilous; tricky; mighty; powerful; terrific; swift; racing; shifting; swirling; churning; weltering; streaming; air; glacial; tidal; descending; broad; undulating; steady; smooth; pulling; noiseless; skeptical; romantic; vital; philosophical; social; subtle; stinging; buoyant; fluvial; crystal;  atmospheric;  arduous; swollen; silver; favoring; conflicting; eddying; ceaseless; contrary; plunging; gushing; descending; mealy; clean; sweeping; lessening; warm; life; haze-enveloped; brown; greasy; running; rippling; time-tossed; smooth; moisture-bringing; genial; wild;  dreamy;  alternating;   unbroken; great; strengthened; brinish; galvanic; nauseous; cool; vicious; mazy; low-voiced; prattling; mysterious; permeating; fruity; twisting; lucent; contagious; intellectual; artistic; unseen; integrated; fatal.

Verbs
allay—; attune to—; chart—; dam—; defile—; deviate from—; escape—; impede—; oppose—; retard—; ruffle—; stem—; —absorbs; —drives; —forces; —glides; —jets; —originates at; —pushes; —rolls on; — runs on; —shatters; —shifts; —springs from.

Thesaurus
AC, Brownian movement, DC, Zeitgeist, a la mode, absorption current, accepted, accessible, accidental, accompanying, accustomed, active current, actual, ado, advance, advised, affirmed, affluence, afflux, affluxion, afloat, afoot, aim, air current, all the rage, all the thing, alternating current, angular motion, announced, as is, ascending, ascent, au courant, au fait, average, aware, axial motion, azimuth, backflowing, backing, backward motion, bandied about, base current, bearing, being, bent, besetting, broadcast, brought to notice, bruited about, career, cathode current, circulated, circumstantial, climbing, coeval, collector current, common, common knowledge, common property, commonly known, commonplace, concourse, conduction current, confluence, conflux, conformable, consuetudinary, contemporaneous, contemporary, convection current, conventional, course, crosscurrent, current of air, customary, cycle, declared, defluxion, delta current, descending, descent, dielectric displacement current, diffused, direct current, direction, direction line, displacement current, disseminated, distributed, doing, dominant, downdraft, downflow, downpour, downward motion, draft, drift, driftage, ebbing, eddy current, electric current, electric stream, electron cloud, electron flow, electron gas, electron stream, emission current, epidemic, established, eventuating, everyday, exciting current, existent, existing, extant, fall wind, familiar, fashionable, flight, flood, flow, flow of air, flowing, fluency, flux, following wind, forward motion, free alternating current, fresh, galvanic current, generally accepted, glacial movement, going about, going around, going on, gush, habitual, hackneyed, happening, head wind, heading, helmsmanship, high-frequency current, hip, household, idle current, immanent, immediate, in being, in circulation, in effect, in existence, in fashion, in force, in hand, in print, in style, in the air, in the know, in the news, in the wind, in vogue, incidental, inclination, indraft, induced current, induction current, inflow, informed, inhalation, inrush, inspiration, instant, ionization current, jetstream, juice, katabatic wind, known, latest, lay, lie, line, line of direction, line of march, living, low-frequency current, made public, magnetizing current, main current, mainstream, mill run, millrace, mod, modern, modish, monsoon, motion, mounting, movement, movement of air, multiphase current, navigation, new, newfashioned, normal, normative, notorious, oblique motion, obtaining, occasional, occurring, on, on foot, ongoing, onrush, onward course, open, ordinary, orientation, outflow, output current, pandemic, passage, passing, piloting, plate current, platitudinous, plunging, point, popular, posted, predominant, predominating, prescribed, prescriptive, present, present-age, present-day, present-time, prevailing, prevalent, proclaimed, progress, propagated, proverbial, public, published, pulsating direct current, quarter, race, radial motion, rampant, random motion, range, reactive current, received, reflowing, refluence, reflux, regnant, regression, regular, regulation, reigning, reported, resultant, retrogression, rife, rising, rotary current, routine, ruling, rumored, run, running, rush, set, sideward motion, simultaneous, single-phase alternating current, sinking, smart, soaring, space charge, spate, spread, standard, stated, steerage, steering, stereotyped, sternway, stock, stray current, stream, stream of air, stylish, subsiding, subsistent, subsisting, surge, swing, tail wind, taking place, talked about, talked-about, talked-of, telecast, televised, tendency, tenor, that be, that is, the general tendency, the main course, thermionic current, thermoelectric current, three-phase alternating current, tide, time spirit, time-honored, tone, topical, track, traditional, traject, trajet, trend, trendy, trite, truistic, under the sun, under way, undercurrent, undertow, universal, universally admitted, universally recognized, up-to-date, up-to-datish, up-to-the-minute, updraft, upward motion, usual, vernacular, voltaic current, water flow, watt current, way, well-kenned, well-known, well-recognized, well-understood, whispered, whispered about, widely known, widespread, wind, wonted

Etymology
From curraunt: <  curant: (French: courant:), present participle of courre: <  currere:, present active infinitive of curro:.

Noun

 * Albanian:
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: riu, corrent
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 水流
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: hoovus
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hawaiian: au
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: currente
 * Irish: sruth
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 流れ (nagare)
 * Latin: flumen, cursus, aestus


 * Latvian: straume
 * Lithuanian: srovė, tėkmė
 * Manx: stroo
 * Maori:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: straum
 * Old Irish:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, , flux
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: sruth
 * Slovak: tok, prúd
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, strömning
 * Tagalog: agos
 * Telugu: ప్రవాహం (pravaahaM)
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: Akıntı


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 電流, 电流
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: τάση
 * Interlingua: currente
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 電流 (denryū)
 * Latvian: strāva


 * Lithuanian: srovė
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, strømstyrke
 * Nynorsk: straum, straumstyrke
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ток (tok)
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: కరెంటు (kareMTu)
 * Thai:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: suuntaus
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 流れ (nagare)


 * Latvian: gaita
 * Lithuanian: eiga, tėkmė
 * Romanian: curs, mers, manieră
 * Russian: ход (χod)
 * Swedish:, strömning,


 * : srovė
 * : tok, prúd

Adjective

 * Arabic: (jārin)  indefinite,  (al-jāriy)  definite,  (jāriya)
 * Bulgarian: текущ, сегашен
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 活期, 通用
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, nuværende
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: nuntempa
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:, ,  τωρινός
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Interlingua:


 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 現行 (げんこう, genkō), 現在 (げんざい, genzai), 当座 (とうざ, tōza)
 * Latvian: pašreizējs
 * Lithuanian: einamasis, dabartinis
 * Norwegian:, nåværende
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, em curso
 * Romanian: actual, curent, în curs; care se întâmplă
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak: súčasný
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: ఇటీవలి (iTeevali)
 * Volapük: nuik


 * Bengali: আধুনিক
 * Bulgarian: общоприет
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: aktueel, aktuele
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Italian: ,


 * Norwegian:, nåværende, gjeldende
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, atual
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, gällande, gångbar, innevarande


 * : einamas, esamas
 * : actual

Related terms

 * current account
 * current events
 * currently