current — İngilizce Sözlük

İsim

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

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   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.

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   flowstream

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

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   • broadly
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4. A tendency or a course of events.

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   flowstreamtendency

Sıfat

1. Existing or occurring at the moment.

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   present

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   futurepast

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   current events

   current leaders

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   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.

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   fashionableprevailingprevalentrifeup-to-date

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   out-of-dateunfashionable

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   current affairs

   current bills and coins

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   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.

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   current bill

   current shock

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   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.

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   speeding

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   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.

Sıfat

1. occurring in or belonging to the present time

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   noncurrent

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   current events

   the current topic

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   current negotiations

   current psychoanalytic theories

   the ship's current position

İsim

1. a flow of electricity through a conductor

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   electric current

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   electrical phenomenon

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   the current was measured in amperes

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

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   stream

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   flowflowing

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   the raft floated downstream on the current

   he felt a stream of air

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   the hose ejected a stream of water

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

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   streamflow

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   courseline

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   two streams of development run through American history

   stream of consciousness

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   the flow of thought

   the current of history