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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

... should say that we preach an unrelieved pessimism, let us remind such that Knowledge is not after all the source of Life, that another category and a different principle—that, namely, which we indicate under the term Love-divine—must have generated the potent current of Life, and that no one should close the door against the hopes of the human Intelligence until he has discovered what are the limits imposed upon what Perfect Love ...

— Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge • Alexander Philip

... Americans had submitted. British historians sometimes speak of the American Revolution as an affair which grew out of a mere dispute about money; and even among Americans, in ordinary conversation and sometimes in current literature, the unwillingness of our forefathers to pay a tax of threepence a pound on tea is mentioned without due reference to the attendant circumstances which made them refuse to pay such a tax. We cannot hope ...

— The War of Independence • John Fiske

... at The Landing, old Duncan Tremble, a river-dog on the Athabasca for forty years, looked admiringly at the printed slip and said, "Aye, aye; the Commissioner he makes laws, but the river he boss." It is only when ice is out and current serves that the brigade moves forward. Old Duncan knows seven languages,—English, French, Cree, Chipewyan, Beaver, Chinook, Montagnais,—he speaks seven languages, thinks in Cree, ...

— The New North • Agnes Deans Cameron

... on this led the way. Arthur kept close to him. I followed with True in my arms, for I had taken him up for fear of his being carried away by the current. Ellen's bearer same next. John walked close behind her, to render her assistance should it be required. With one hand I grasped the long sipo, with the other I kept tight hold of True. The rest had the advantage of being able to steady themselves with their poles. ...

— On the Banks of the Amazon • W.H.G. Kingston

... that so important a personage as the Gray Man should be the central figure of many legends, and indeed over him the story-makers seem to have had vigorous competition, for thirty or forty narratives are current in the neighborhood concerning him and the principal events of his life. So great a collection of legendary lore on one topic rendered the choice of a single tradition which should fairly cover the ...

— Irish Wonders • D. R. McAnally, Jr.

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