current — قاموس الإنجليزية

اسم

1. The generally unidirectional movement of a gas or fluid.

   الاستعمال

   • معدود
   • غير معدود

   أمثلة

   The mantle is important to our discussion in that its viscous nature can conduct convection currents that have effects on the crust upon which we live.

2. The part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction, especially (oceanography) ellipsis of ocean current.

   الاستعمال

   • معدود
   • غير معدود

   مرادفات

   flowstream

3. Ellipsis of electric current. electricity, power in general.

   الاستعمال

   • South-Asia
   • broadly
   • معدود
   • غير معدود

4. A tendency or a course of events.

   الاستعمال

   • معدود
   • غير معدود

   مرادفات

   flowstreamtendency

صفة

1. Existing or occurring at the moment.

   مرادفات

   present

   الأضداد

   futurepast

   أمثلة

   current events

   current leaders

   أمثلة إضافية (2)

   current negotiations

   Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.

2. Generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment; having currency.

   مرادفات

   fashionableprevailingprevalentrifeup-to-date

   الأضداد

   out-of-dateunfashionable

   أمثلة

   current affairs

   current bills and coins

   أمثلة إضافية (3)

   current fashions

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

   The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them[…]is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies.[…]current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate[…]“stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.

3. Electric; of or relating to electricity.

   الاستعمال

   • South-Asia

   أمثلة

   current bill

   current shock

   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   In April and May this year, the average daily current consumption dropped to 55 MU[…]Compared to household electricity charges, the current unit charge used by commercial companies is higher.[…]Electricity consumption is generally higher in summer as compared to monsoon and winter. The use of ACs will increase not only in homes but also in commercial establishments and current consumption will increase.

4. Running or moving rapidly.

   الاستعمال

   • مهجور

   مرادفات

   speeding

   أمثلة

   For here we met, some ten or twelve of us, / To chase a creature that was current then / In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns.

صفة

1. occurring in or belonging to the present time

   الأضداد

   noncurrent

   أمثلة

   current events

   the current topic

   أمثلة إضافية (3)

   current negotiations

   current psychoanalytic theories

   the ship's current position

اسم

1. a flow of electricity through a conductor

   مرادفات

   electric current

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   electrical phenomenon

   أمثلة

   the current was measured in amperes

2. a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes)

   مرادفات

   stream

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   flowflowing

   أمثلة

   the raft floated downstream on the current

   he felt a stream of air

   أمثلة إضافية (1)

   the hose ejected a stream of water

3. dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas

   مرادفات

   streamflow

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   courseline

   أمثلة

   two streams of development run through American history

   stream of consciousness

   أمثلة إضافية (2)

   the flow of thought

   the current of history