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US
/ˈkɑɹənt, ˈkɝənt, ˈkɝnt/
]
[ UK /kˈʌɹənt/ ]
[ UK /kˈʌɹənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
occurring in or belonging to the present time
the current topic
the ship's current position
current negotiations
current events
current psychoanalytic theories
NOUN
-
dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas
two streams of development run through American history
the current of history
the flow of thought
stream of consciousness -
a flow of electricity through a conductor
the current was measured in amperes -
a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes)
he felt a stream of air
the hose ejected a stream of water
the raft floated downstream on the current
How To Use current In A Sentence
- It would almost be better to have no backbench bills at all than the current system, which offers a false glimmer of hope. Times, Sunday Times
- The affinities between music and poetry have been familiar since antiquity, though they are largely ignored in the current intellectual climate.
- A lot of businesses are being hurt by the current high interest rates.
- One of our current projects is to convert a couple of bungalows in south London into a five-bedroom detached property. Times, Sunday Times
- We're currently shrinking the size of technology by a factor of 5.6 per linear dimension per decade, so it is conservative to say that this scenario will be feasible in a few decades.
- The 100-acre wind farm near Strabane is currently capable of producing 6.6 kilo watts of power per hour.
- Try to meet a boy with a little more depth than your current crop of potential beaus.
- Produced by the BBC's network current affairs unit in Manchester, Real Story will have a three series run of 28 programmes.
- In his 1982 "Secondary Currents," which is described in the film's title credits as a "film noir," Rose pushes the sound and image concerns of structuralist filmmakers by creating a work that is "imageless": on a black screen, white subtitles translate the gibberish of the unreliable narrator in the voice-over. Baltimore City Paper
- Net interest income dropped to $256.4 million, primarily due to the low market-interest rates that resulted in lower yields on mortgage-related interest-earning assets as customers refinanced to lower mortgage rates and new loans and asset purchases were at the current low market interest rates. Hudson City Bancorp Swings to Loss
