What's the difference between currency and real?

Currency


Definition:

  • (n.) A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a stream; as, the currency of time.
  • (n.) The state or quality of being current; general acceptance or reception; a passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulation; as, a report has had a long or general currency; the currency of bank notes.
  • (n.) That which is in circulation, or is given and taken as having or representing value; as, the currency of a country; a specie currency; esp., government or bank notes circulating as a substitute for metallic money.
  • (n.) Fluency; readiness of utterance.
  • (n.) Current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For a union that, in less than 25 years, has had to cope with the end of the cold war, the expansion from 12 to 28 members, the struggle to create a single currency and, most recently, the eurozone crisis, such a claim risks accusations of hyperbole.
  • (2) Silvio Berlusconi's government is battling to stay in the eurozone against mounting odds – not least the country's mountain of state debt, which is the largest in the single currency area.
  • (3) Because while some of these alt-currencies show promise, many aren't worth the paper they're not printed on.
  • (4) Gavin Andresen, formerly the chief scientist at the currency’s guiding body, the Bitcoin Foundation, had been the most important backer of the man who would be Satoshi.
  • (5) • Criminal sanctions should be introduced for anyone who attempts to manipulate Libor by amending the Financial Services and Market Act to allow the FSA to prosecute manipulation of the rate • The new body that oversees the administration of Libor, replacing the BBA, should introduce a "code of conduct" that requires submissions to be corroborated by trade data • Libor is set by a panel of banks asked the price at which they expect to borrow over 15 periods, from overnight to 12 months, in 10 currencies.
  • (6) That was what the earlier debate over “currency wars” – when emerging markets complained about being inundated by financial inflows from the US – was all about.
  • (7) The initial impact was felt on the local currency market where a shortage of foreign exchange caused a looming crisis.
  • (8) Single-currency membership has no bearing on the foreign policy post.
  • (9) By easing these huge flows of hundreds of billions across borders, the single currency played a material role in causing the continent's crisis.
  • (10) This deal also promotes the separation of the single market and single currency – a British objective for many years that would have been unthinkable in the Maastricht era.
  • (11) Investors recognised the true horror of Europe’s toxic bank debts, and the restrictions imposed by the single currency.
  • (12) But he added: “It’s also true that extremely low oil prices, adverse changes in currency rates, and a further decline in power prices are having a significant effect on our business.” Tony Cocker, the chief executive of E.ON UK, said milder weather and improved energy efficiency in British homes were behind the fall in power use, hitting sales.
  • (13) It announced that it would phase out the dual currency system.
  • (14) It is one of six banks involved in talks with the Financial Conduct Authority over alleged rigging in currency markets and Ross McEwan, marking a year as RBS boss, also pointed to a string of other risks in a third quarter trading update.
  • (15) Spain was the worst hit of the currency bloc's major economies with a 0.8% drop in industrial production.
  • (16) But Frank argues the disastrous attempt at curbing markets through currency reform in 2009 has shown the cost of turning back from change.
  • (17) The survey also found that Osborne's currency union veto made 30% more likely to vote no with only 13% more inclined to vote yes.
  • (18) Eurozone leaders ooze confidence that Greece’s financial collapse could be easily weathered by the rest of the currency bloc.
  • (19) But persistent falls in the currency’s value during December towards the previous low point has increased the cost of imported goods and forced businesses to say that price rises are in the pipeline.
  • (20) Updated at 2.48pm GMT 1.42pm GMT Another question riffing off Britain's EU referendum - how will Europe draw up new structures such as co-ordinated banking supervision when some members of the EU are refusing to ever join the single currency?

Real


Definition:

  • (n.) A small Spanish silver coin; also, a denomination of money of account, formerly the unit of the Spanish monetary system.
  • (a.) Royal; regal; kingly.
  • (a.) Actually being or existing; not fictitious or imaginary; as, a description of real life.
  • (a.) True; genuine; not artificial, counterfeit, or factitious; often opposed to ostensible; as, the real reason; real Madeira wine; real ginger.
  • (a.) Relating to things, not to persons.
  • (a.) Having an assignable arithmetical or numerical value or meaning; not imaginary.
  • (a.) Pertaining to things fixed, permanent, or immovable, as to lands and tenements; as, real property, in distinction from personal or movable property.
  • (n.) A realist.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) You lot have got real issues to talk about and deal with.
  • (2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest With a plot based around fake (or real?)
  • (3) It did the job of triggering growth, but it also fueled real-estate speculation, similar to what was going on in the mid-2000s here.” Slowing economic growth may be another concern.
  • (4) A good example is Apple TV: Can it possibly generate real money at $100 a puck?
  • (5) The light intensity profile for any desired cell can be examined in "real time", even during acceleration of the rotor.
  • (6) It is intended to aid in finding the appropriate PI (proportional-integral) controller settings by means of computer simulation instead of real experiments with the system.
  • (7) Tap the relevant details into Google, though, and the real names soon appear before your eyes: the boss in question, stern and yet oddly quixotic, is Phyllis Westberg of Harold Ober Associates.
  • (8) There were soon tales of claimants dying after having had money withdrawn, but the real administrative problem was the explosion of appeals, which very often succeeded because many medical problems were being routinely ignored at the earlier stage.
  • (9) 75 min: Real Madrid substitution: Angel Di Maria off, Ricky Kaka on.
  • (10) It is clear that the linking of the naming rights to West Ham United generates real cash value for the LLDC and the taxpayer.
  • (11) The dual-probe system incorporates a central collimated probe for monitoring activity in the LV surrounded by an annular detector collimated in such a manner as to provide simultaneous real-time monitoring of the LV background activity.
  • (12) Real ear CVRs, calculated from real ear recordings of nonsense syllables, were obtained from eight hearing-impaired listeners.
  • (13) Zidane is the 15th manager Real Madrid have had since 2003.
  • (14) Further studies are required to show whether these differences are real and, if so, whether they have any relevance for the pathogenesis of migraine attacks.
  • (15) Real Labour would not just meddle with a cosmetic charge on rich London mansions .
  • (16) Thus, luciferase transcriptional fusions can detect subtle variations in initial rates of gene expression in a real-time, nondestructive assay.
  • (17) Thus, 10 degrees should be subtracted from the ultrasound values in order to obtain the real AV angles.
  • (18) It was not certain whether the association was real or what the explanation might be.
  • (19) "It will mean root-and-branch change for our banks if we are to deliver real change for Britain, if we are to rebuild our economy so it works for working people, and if we are to restore trust in a sector of our economy worth billions of pounds and hundreds of thousands of jobs to our country."
  • (20) The resulting corner is dealt with easily by Real, who scoot upfield through Di Maria.