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CURRENT, a. [L., to flow or run.]

1. Literally, flowing, running, passing. Hence, passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulating; as current opinions; current coin. Hence, common, general or fashionable; generally received; popular; as the current notions of the day or age; current folly.

2. Established by common estimation; generally received; as the current value of coin.

3. Passable; that may be allowed or admitted.

4. Now passing; present in its course; as the current month or year.

CURRENT, n.

1. A flowing or passing; a stream; applied to fluids; as a current of water, or of air. The gulf stream is a remarkable current in the Atlantic. A current sets into the Mediterranean.

2. Course; progressive motion, or movement; continuation; as the current of time.

3. A connected series; successive course; as the current of events.

4. General or main course; as the current of opinion.


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CURRENT, a. [L., to flow or run.]

1. Literally, flowing, running, passing. Hence, passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulating; as current opinions; current coin. Hence, common, general or fashionable; generally received; popular; as the current notions of the day or age; current folly.

2. Established by common estimation; generally received; as the current value of coin.

3. Passable; that may be allowed or admitted.

4. Now passing; present in its course; as the current month or year.

CURRENT, n.

1. A flowing or passing; a stream; applied to fluids; as a current of water, or of air. The gulf stream is a remarkable current in the Atlantic. A current sets into the Mediterranean.

2. Course; progressive motion, or movement; continuation; as the current of time.

3. A connected series; successive course; as the current of events.

4. General or main course; as the current of opinion.

CUR'RENT, a. [L. currens, from curro, to flow or run; Fr. courir, whence courier, and discourir, to discourse, concourir, to concur, &c.; It. correre; Sp. and Port. correr, to run; W. gyru, to drive or run; Eng. hurry. It seems to be connected with the root of car, cart, chariot, like currus. See Ar. كَارَ kaura, and جَرَي garai. Class Gr, No. 7, 32, 15.]

  1. Literally, flowing, running, passing. Hence, passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulating; as, current opinions; current coin. Hence, common, general or fashionable; generally received; popular; as, the current notions of the day or age; current folly. – Watts. Swift. Pope.
  2. Established by common estimation; generally received; as, the current value of coin.
  3. Passable; that may be allowed or admitted. – Shak.
  4. Now passing; present in its course; as, the current month or year.

CUR'RENT, n.

  1. A flowing or passing; a stream; applied to fluids; as, a current of water, or of air. The gulf stream is a remarkable current in the Atlantic. A current sets into the Mediterranean.
  2. Course; progressive motion, or movement; continuation; as, the current of time.
  3. A connected series; successive course; as, the current of events.
  4. General or main course; as, the current of opinion.

Cur"rent
  1. Running or moving rapidly.

    [Archaic]

    Like the current fire, that renneth
    Upon a cord.
    Gower.

    To chase a creature that was current then
    In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns.
    Tennyson.

  2. A flowing or passing; onward motion. Hence: A body of fluid moving continuously in a certain direction; a stream; esp., the swiftest part of it; as, a current of water or of air; that which resembles a stream in motion; as, a current of electricity.

    Two such silver currents, when they join,
    Do glorify the banks that bound them in.
    Shak.

    The surface of the ocean is furrowed by currents, whose direction . . . the navigator should know.
    Nichol.

  3. Now passing, as time; as, the current month.
  4. General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion, etc.

    Current meter, an instrument for measuring the velocity, force, etc., of currents. -- Current mill, a mill driven by a current wheel. -- Current wheel, a wheel dipping into the water and driven by the current of a stream or by the ebb and flow of the tide.

    Syn. -- Stream; course. See Stream.

  5. Passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulating through the community; generally received; common; as, a current coin; a current report; current history.

    That there was current money in Abraham's time is past doubt.
    Arbuthnot.

    Your fire-new stamp of honor is scarce current.
    Shak.

    His current value, which is less or more as men have occasion for him.
    Grew.

  6. Commonly estimated or acknowledged.
  7. Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable.

    O Buckingham, now do I play the touch
    To try if thou be current gold indeed.
    Shak.

    Account current. See under Account. -- Current money, lawful money. Abbott.

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Current

CURRENT, adjective [Latin , to flow or run.]

1. Literally, flowing, running, passing. Hence, passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulating; as current opinions; current coin. Hence, common, general or fashionable; generally received; popular; as the current notions of the day or age; current folly.

2. Established by common estimation; generally received; as the current value of coin.

3. Passable; that may be allowed or admitted.

4. Now passing; present in its course; as the current month or year.

CURRENT, noun

1. A flowing or passing; a stream; applied to fluids; as a current of water, or of air. The gulf stream is a remarkable current in the Atlantic. A current sets into the Mediterranean.

2. Course; progressive motion, or movement; continuation; as the current of time.

3. A connected series; successive course; as the current of events.

4. General or main course; as the current of opinion.

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

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He believes himself a man of importance.

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