current : Idioms & Phrases

• a running or continued account between two or more parties, or a statement of the particulars of such an account.

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• noun air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure
  air current; wind.
  
  • trees bent under the fierce winds
  • when there is no wind, row
  • the radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere

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• noun an electric current that reverses direction sinusoidally
  alternating current; AC.
  
  • In the US most household current is AC at 60 cycles per second

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• noun an electric current that reverses direction sinusoidally
  alternating current; AC.
  
  • In the US most household current is AC at 60 cycles per second

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• noun that part of the balance of payments recording a nation's exports and imports of goods and services and transfer payments
  
• noun a bank account against which the depositor can draw checks that are payable on demand
  chequing account; checking account.
  

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• noun assets in the form of cash (or easily convertible into cash)
  quick assets; liquid assets.
  

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• noun a flow of electric charge
  dynamic electricity.
  

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• noun intelligence of all types and forms of immediate interest; usually disseminated without delays for evaluation or interpretation
  

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• an instrument for measuring the velocity, force, etc., of currents.

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• a mill driven by a current wheel.

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• lawful money.

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• noun air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure
  air current; wind.
  
  • trees bent under the fierce winds
  • when there is no wind, row
  • the radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere

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• noun a measure of the amount of electric charge flowing past a circuit point at a specific time
  

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• a wheel dipping into the water and driven by the current of a stream or by the ebb and flow of the tide.

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• noun an electric current that flows in one direction steadily
  DC; direct current.
  

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• noun an electric current that flows in one direction steadily
  DC; direct current.
  

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• noun a flow of electricity through a conductor
  current.
  
  • the current was measured in amperes

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• a current or stream of electricity traversing a closed circuit formed of conducting substances, or passing by means of conductors from one body to another which is in a different electrical state.

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• noun any of the ocean currents that flow westward at the equator
  

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• noun cultivated European current bearing small edible red berries
  red currant; Ribes rubrum.
  

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• noun a cold ocean current that flows north along the Pacific Coast of South America before turning west
  Humboldt current.
  

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• noun a warm ocean current that flows northeastwardly off the coast of Japan into the northern Pacific ocean
  Kuroshio; Japan current.
  

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• noun a warm ocean current that flows northeastwardly off the coast of Japan into the northern Pacific ocean
  Kuroshio; Japan current.
  

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• noun an equatorial current that flows west across the Pacific just north of the equator
  

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• noun the steady flow of surface ocean water in a prevailing direction
  

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• noun a cold ocean current that flows north along the Pacific Coast of South America before turning west
  Humboldt current.
  

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• a statement or list of the prevailing prices of merchandise, stocks, specie, bills of exchange, etc., published statedly or occasionally.

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• noun a strong surface current flowing outwards from a shore
  riptide.
  

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• (Elec.), a momentary current induced in a closed circuit by a current of electricity passing through the same or a contiguous circuit at the beginning and also at the end of the passage of the primary current.

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• noun an equatorial current that flows west across the Pacific just south of the equator
  

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• noun an electric current produced between two electrodes as a result of electrons emitted by thermionic emission
  

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• noun the water current caused by the tides
  tidal flow.
  

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