(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.
(a.) Commonly estimated or acknowledged.
(a.) Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable.
(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.
(a.) General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) This selective review emphasizes advances in neurochemistry which provide a context for current and future research on neurological and psychiatric disorders encountered in clinical practice.
(2) The influence of the various concepts for the induction of lateral structure formation in lipid membranes on integral functional units like ionophores is demonstrated by analysing the single channel current fluctuations of gramicidin in bimolecular lipid membranes.
(3) The outward currents are sensitive to TEA and their reversal potentials differ.
(4) With NaCl as the major constituent of the bathing solution (potassium-free pipette and external solutions) the reversal potential (Er) of the noradrenaline-evoked current was about 0 mV.
(5) His son, Karim Makarius, opened the gallery to display some of the legacy bequeathed to him by his father in 2009, as well as the work of other Argentine photographers and artists – currently images by contemporary photographer Facundo de Zuviria are also on show.
(6) M NET is currently installed in referring physician office sites across the state, with additional physician sites identified and program enhancements under development.
(7) Acceptance of less than ideal donors is ill-advised even though rejection of such donors conflicts with the current shortage of organs.
(8) Schneiderlin, valued at an improbable £27m, and the currently injured Jay Rodriguez are wanted by their former manager Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs, but the chairman Ralph Krueger has apparently called a halt to any more outgoings, saying: “They are part of the core that we have decided to keep at Southampton.” He added: “Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin are not for sale and they will be a part of our club as we enter the new season.” The new manager Ronald Koeman has begun rebuilding by bringing in Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pellè from the Dutch league and Krueger said: “We will have players coming in, we will make transfers to strengthen the squad.
(9) Schistosomiasis control currently relies primarily on chemotherapy which is both expensive and temporary.
(10) Currently, photodynamic therapy is under FDA-approved clinical investigational trials in the treatment of tumors of the skin, bronchus, esophagus, bladder, head and neck, and of gynecologic and ocular tumors.
(11) But the sports minister has been clear that too many sports bodies are currently not delivering in bringing new people from all backgrounds to their sport.
(12) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
(13) Suggested is a carefully prepared system of cycling videocassettes, to effect the dissemination of current medical information from leading medical centers to medical and paramedical people in the "bush".
(14) Anytime they feel parts of the Basic Law are not up to their current standards of political correctness, they will change it and tell Hong Kong courts to obey.
(15) Atmaca, who belongs to the Gregorian-Armenian church in Istanbul, said that he nevertheless holds the current pontiff in high regard.
(16) We analyzed the amounts and types of glycosphingolipids (GSLs) from peripheral blood lymphocytes, monocytes, and granulocytes isolated by counter-current elutriation.
(17) We are pursuing legal action because there are still so many unanswered questions about the viability of Shenhua’s proposed koala plan and it seems at this point the plan does not guarantee the survival of the estimated 262 koalas currently living where Shenhua wants to put its mine,” said Ranclaud.
(18) Positivity was not correlated with current residence census tract socioeconomic indicators in black or white females.
(19) Migrant voters are almost as numerous as current Ukip supporters but they are widely overlooked and risk being increasingly disaffected by mainstream politics and the fierce rhetoric around immigration caused partly by the rise of Ukip,” said Robert Ford from Manchester University, the report’s co-author.
(20) As increases to the Isa allowance are based on the CPI inflation figure for the year to the previous September, the new data suggests the current Isa limit of £15,240 will remain unchanged next year.
Undercurrent
Definition:
(n.) A current below the surface of water, sometimes flowing in a contrary direction to that on the surface.
(n.) Hence, figuratively, a tendency of feeling, opinion, or the like, in a direction contrary to what is publicly shown; an unseen influence or tendency; as, a strong undercurrent of sentiment in favor of a prisoner.
(a.) Running beneath the surface; hidden.
Example Sentences:
(1) Funny nice, the kind that comes with a pleasing undercurrent of naughtiness.
(2) Kenton's alliance with Zaleshoff isn't always an easy one - the journalist is unimpressed by the spy's attempt to fob him off with the official Stalinist line on Trotskyite subversion, for example, and Zaleshoff is, not unreasonably, suspicious of Kenton's motives for helping him - but it's kept afloat by the undercurrent of sexual attraction between Kenton and Zaleshoff's sister.
(3) Discussing activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s anthology, Why Are faggots So Afraid Of Faggots?” , academic Alex Rowlson finds that the increasing phenomenon of profiles on gay men’s dating sites that contain exclusion lists like “no blacks; no Asians; no fats; no femmes; str8-acting only” is indicative of a significant undercurrent; that “ the culture of sexual liberation has been replaced by sexual segregation .” I read a staggering piece recently, entitled Why I No Longer Want To Be Gay .
(4) We've never discussed this, but I could feel an undercurrent of regret.
(5) In the longer term, we will see that undercurrent of questioning Jordan’s role in the coalition come back.
(6) Lu, who declined to give her full name for fear of reprisals, has a short bob haircut, a round face and soft, lilting voice that belies an undercurrent of outrage.
(7) When the project was first announced in December, the Hollywood Reporter described it as "a western with contemporary humour, with one undercurrent being just how dangerous and painful life really was in the late 1800s".
(8) In 2001, Williams claimed there was an undercurrent of racism in the crowd and did not play there for another 14 years.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump, trade and racism: economic decay is dividing Ohio Democrats Anywhere but Washington is an eight-part video series exploring the undercurrents of the 2016 election.
(10) It was only a matter of time before one big event gave the undercurrent of racism sanction.
(11) And what is sometimes called national euphoria does in fact have strong undercurrents of divisiveness.
(12) Such stunts have become common for a party that seeks to exploit anger at Greece's social crisis, along with the undercurrent of racism that has accompanied it.
(13) It’s easy enough to hear the sensuality, of course, but to spot the undercurrent that makes her pierce you as much as soothe and seduce you, that’s getting more to the heart of her.
(14) Mizzou history professor Keona Ervin said that beneath the fights about race, economic justice for grad students and reproductive rights was an “undercurrent of black activism that’s been on campus since the 50s, really”.
(15) It offered an illuminating glimpse of the musical undercurrents they'd drawn on in making their groundbreaking debut album, Blue Lines , released in 1991.
(16) As on previous visits, the undercurrent of the visit was that Kim should give up nuclear weapons so that his country can end its relative isolation and embark on an economic modernisation programme.
(17) Some analysts say the changes point to a deep-rooted, yet widely ignored undercurrent of racism in Canadian society.
(18) I wanted it to have this undercurrent of techno, and the loudest drums, the hardest groove to come in in the last four minutes.
(19) Here, I am sad, I have no family, no mother, but she says, ‘don’t be sad’, she is my mother here.” But others are aware of an undercurrent of hostility.
(20) There were also bad and inane films - playing Chinese in Dragon Seed (1944); helpless in Without Love (1945) and The Sea Of Grass (1947), both with Tracy; trying to be Clara Schumann in Song Of Love (1947); and in Vincente Minnelli's neurotic Undercurrent (1946).