Currant vs. Current
Currantnoun
A small dried grape, usually the Black Corinth grape, rarely more than 4mm diameter when dried.
Currantnoun
The fruit of various shrubs of the genus Ribes, white, black or red.
Currantnoun
A shrub bearing such fruit.
Currantnoun
A small kind of seedless raisin, imported from the Levant, chiefly from Zante and Cephalonia; - used in cookery.
Currantnoun
The acid fruit or berry of the Ribes rubrum or common red currant, or of its variety, the white currant.
Currantnoun
A shrub or bush of several species of the genus Ribes (a genus also including the gooseberry); esp., the Ribes rubrum.
Currantnoun
any of several tart red or black berries used primarily for jellies and jams
Currantnoun
any of various deciduous shrubs of the genus Ribes bearing currants
Currantnoun
small dried seedless raisin grown in the Mediterranean region and California; used in cooking
Currantnoun
a small dried fruit made from a small seedless variety of grape originally grown in the eastern Mediterranean region and much used in cooking
Currantnoun
a Eurasian shrub which produces small edible black, red, or white berries.
Currantnoun
a berry from a currant shrub.
Currentnoun
The part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction.
Currentnoun
(electricity) The time rate of flow of electric charge.
Currentnoun
A tendency or a course of events.
Currentadjective
Existing or occurring at the moment.
Currentadjective
Generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment.
Currentadjective
(obsolete) Running or moving rapidly.
Currentadjective
Running or moving rapidly.
Currentadjective
Now passing, as time; as, the current month.
Currentadjective
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.
Currentadjective
Commonly estimated or acknowledged.
Currentadjective
Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable.
Currentnoun
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.
Currentnoun
General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion, etc.
Currentnoun
a flow of electricity through a conductor;
Currentnoun
a steady flow (usually from natural causes);
Currentnoun
dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas;
Currentadjective
occurring in or belonging to the present time;
Currentadjective
belonging to the present time; happening or being used or done now
Currentadjective
in common or general use
Currentnoun
a body of water or air moving in a definite direction, especially through a surrounding body of water or air in which there is less movement
Currentnoun
a flow of electricity which results from the ordered directional movement of electrically charged particles
Currentnoun
a quantity representing the rate of flow of electric charge, usually measured in amperes
Currentnoun
the general tendency or course of events or opinion
