Current
Running or moving rapidly.
Now passing, as time; as, the current month.
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.
Commonly estimated or acknowledged.
Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable.
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.
General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion, etc.
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Current Quotations
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
William Shakespeare
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
Marcus Aurelius
Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
George Eliot
There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
James Madison
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
Brian Tracy
Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.
Virginia Woolf
There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.
John Locke
Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.
Euripides
Current Translations
current in Afrikaans is huidig
current in Dutch is actueel
current in Italian is corrente, attuale, forza, volgente, presente
current in Portuguese is corrente, atual
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