(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.
Whirlwind
Definition:
(n.) A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air. It usually has a rapid progressive motion.
(n.) Fig.: A body of objects sweeping violently onward.
Example Sentences:
(1) It has all been a bit of a whirlwind,” admits Beatty.
(2) But, as the postal sector demonstrates all too clearly, an economic regulator can unleash a whirlwind.
(3) I am very clear that I want to ensure we get the best possible deal for the United Kingdom that works for everyone across the United Kingdom and all parts of the UK when we enter these negotiation,” said the prime minister in Wales, at the start of a whirlwind UK tour aimed at drumming up last-minute support from the devolved administrations.
(4) For Merkel, the meeting is the start of a week of whirlwind diplomacy that will see her meeting heads of state in Tallin, Prague and Warsaw before hosting first the leaders of the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden and Denmark, and then the presidents of Slovenia, Bulgaria and Croatia at Schloss Meseberg, a baroque castle outside Berlin.
(5) But it all went to plan and afterwards it was a complete whirlwind.
(6) Inevitably, it looks as though corners have been cut and supermarkets will reap the whirlwind in reputational damage.
(7) In whirlwind fashion a host of Tottenham greats, from Bill Nicholson to Gareth Bale, are displayed alongside thunderous music and a cinematic voiceover, which, at the end, affirms the club’s motto: “To dare is to do.” It’s very dramatic, a little over-the-top and, on Saturday, somewhat contradictory.
(8) After the Paris attacks we’d had statements about France reaping the whirlwind of their own actions [a phrase used in a statement by the Stop the War Coalition, of which Corbyn is a long-time supporter], and every time we have a terrorist attack we have this argument that ‘what can we expect?’ That this is somehow not really the responsibility of those who carry out those attacks.
(9) How fitting he should not just inherit his father’s fortune but reap the whirlwind of the original referendum campaign launched by Sir James Goldsmith, an unsavoury tycoon who tried to bankrupt Private Eye.
(10) Pogrund and cameraman Dewald Aukema pick up not only the whirlwind nature of that first head-of-state visit, but the exotic and breathtaking beauty of Africa and Mandela's buttoned lip as he visits the lavish basilicas built by despots on the land of the poor.
(11) It's clearly overkill when you are dealing with waste which is at the bottom end of the spectrum (of toxicity)," he says during a whirlwind minibus tour of the 98-hectare (245 acre) site, which he describes as "a ride around the ranch".
(12) As well as watching White's solo performance, concertgoers will attend a set by garage-rockers Whirlwind Heat.
(13) A whirlwind of consulting and reviewing to keep everyone busy.
(14) Fahma, despite the whirlwind of the past few weeks, is not quite ready to put her campaigning days behind her.
(15) Which brings us to the Stop the War Coalition ( STWC) – here’s a potted history – whose “Paris reaps the whirlwind of western support for extremist violence” tweet caused such offence to MPs at the PLP.
(16) "'It was all whirlwind, heat and flash'," he adds, quoting a line from Sonic Youth's Goo sleeve.
(17) This whirlwind adventure set the tone for the week ahead.
(18) Send them to the usual address – knowledge@theguardian.com From boardroom to penalty box (2) Last week Archie Whirlwind wondered if Juninho ending his career as player-president of his youth club Ituano was a unique case.
(19) Such details seemed all of a piece with his whirlwind existence.
(20) An estimated 50,000 attended the benefit show, and though we’ve all been burned by a bro with a guitar around a campfire, there genuinely is a healing power to listening to music with others, an outlet for collective grief that can soothe whirlwind emotions.