Current: Definition and part of speech

Current

  1. a. General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion, etc.
  2. a. Running or moving rapidly.
  3. a. Now passing, as time; as, the current month.
  4. 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.
  5. a. Commonly estimated or acknowledged.
  6. a. Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable.
  7. a. 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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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