Definition of current

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Current (a.) 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..

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Trapdoor :: Trapdoor (n.) A door in a level for regulating the ventilating current; -- called also weather door.
Cob :: Cob (n.) A Spanish coin formerly current in Ireland, worth abiut 4s. 6d..
Rheoscope :: Rheoscope (n.) An instrument for detecting the presence or movement of currents, as of electricity..
Spin :: Spin (v. i.) To stream or issue in a thread or a small current or jet; as, blood spinsfrom a vein..
Rheometer :: Rheometer (n.) An instrument for measuring currents, especially the force or intensity of electrical currents; a galvanometer..
Intercurrent :: Intercurrent (n.) Something intervening.
Bit :: Bit (v.) In the Southern and Southwestern States, a small silver coin (as the real) formerly current; commonly, one worth about 12 1/2 cents; also, the sum of 12 1/2 cents..
Volant :: Volant (a.) Passing through the air upon wings, or as if upon wings; flying; hence, passing from place to place; current..
Draft :: Draft (a.) Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air. Same as Draught..
Gale :: Gale (n.) A strong current of air; a wind between a stiff breeze and a hurricane. The most violent gales are called tempests.
Set :: Set (n.) Direction or course; as, the set of the wind, or of a current..
Airless :: Airless (a.) Not open to a free current of air; wanting fresh air, or communication with the open air..
Faradic :: Faradic (a.) Of or pertaining to Michael Faraday, the distinguished electrician; -- applied especially to induced currents of electricity, as produced by certain forms of inductive apparatus, on account of Faraday's investigations of their laws..
Blow :: Blow (v. i.) To send forth a forcible current of air, as from the mouth or from a pair of bellows..
Price :: Price (n. & v.) The sum or amount of money at which a thing is valued, or the value which a seller sets on his goods in market; that for which something is bought or sold, or offered for sale; equivalent in money or other means of exchange; current value or rate paid or demanded in market or in barter; cost..
Run :: Run (n.) State of being current; currency; popularity.
Concurrent :: Concurrent (a.) Joint and equal in authority; taking cognizance of similar questions; operating on the same objects; as, the concurrent jurisdiction of courts..
Scour :: Scour (v. t.) To remove by rubbing or cleansing; to sweep along or off; to carry away or remove, as by a current of water; -- often with off or away..
Languet :: Languet (n.) Anything resembling the tongue in form or office; specif., the slip of metal in an organ pipe which turns the current of air toward its mouth..
Strong :: Strong (superl.) Moving with rapidity or force; violent; forcible; impetuous; as, a strong current of water or wind; the wind was strong from the northeast; a strong tide..
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