current: translation
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noun
1 continuous flowing movement of water
ADJECTIVE
▪ fast, fast-flowing, powerful, strong, swift
▪ cold, warm
▪ rip
▪ tidal
▪ dangerous, treacherous
▪ ocean, water
▪ prevailing
▪ The prevailing current flows from east to west.
▪ offshore
CURRENT + VERB
▪ flow
▪ carry sb/sth, sweep sb/sth
▪ The strong current carried the boat downstream.
▪ She was swept away by the treacherous currents.
PREPOSITION
▪ against a/the current
▪ He was swimming against the current.
▪ in a/the current
▪ The boat was carried along in the current.
▪ with a/the current
▪ It's easier to go with the current.
2 flow of air
ADJECTIVE
▪ warm
▪ air, wind
▪ Birds of prey use warm air currents to lift them high in the sky.
▪ convection
PHRASES
▪ a current of air
3 flow of electricity through a wire
ADJECTIVE
▪ high, strong
▪ low, weak
▪ electric, electrical
▪ alternating, direct
▪ input, inward
▪ output, outward
VERB + CURRENT
▪ generate, induce, produce
▪ carry, conduct, pass, transmit
▪ switch off, switch on
▪ Check all your wiring before switching on the current.
CURRENT + VERB
▪ flow, pass through sth
▪ Measure the current flowing in the wire.
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adj.
Current is used with these nouns: ↑account, ↑affair, ↑asset, ↑boyfriend, ↑chairman, ↑champion, ↑chief executive, ↑circumstance, ↑client, ↑climate, ↑consensus, ↑consumption, ↑context, ↑contract, ↑controversy, ↑craze, ↑crisis, ↑curriculum vitae, ↑customer, ↑debate, ↑decade, ↑demand, ↑doctrine, ↑document, ↑dogma, ↑driving licence, ↑edition, ↑emphasis, ↑employer, ↑estimate, ↑event, ↑evidence, ↑expansion, ↑expenditure, ↑fad, ↑fascination, ↑fashion, ↑form, ↑furore, ↑generation, ↑girlfriend, ↑government, ↑home, ↑impasse, ↑incarnation, ↑inhabitant, ↑initiative, ↑interest, ↑issue, ↑jargon, ↑job, ↑knowledge, ↑literature, ↑mania, ↑mayor, ↑month, ↑mood, ↑move, ↑obsession, ↑occupant, ↑occupation, ↑offering, ↑orthodoxy, ↑output, ↑owner, ↑parliament, ↑phase, ↑plight, ↑popularity, ↑position, ↑practice, ↑predicament, ↑preoccupation, ↑president, ↑projection, ↑quarter, ↑record, ↑regime, ↑regulation, ↑requirement, ↑research, ↑residence, ↑revival, ↑rule, ↑ruler, ↑salary, ↑scandal, ↑schedule, ↑session, ↑shortage, ↑single, ↑situation, ↑slang, ↑slump, ↑stalemate, ↑standard, ↑standing, ↑state, ↑status, ↑study, ↑system, ↑technology, ↑tenant, ↑theory, ↑thinking, ↑total, ↑trend, ↑trouble, ↑turmoil, ↑uncertainty, ↑usage, ↑use, ↑user, ↑valuation, ↑version, ↑view, ↑vogue, ↑wave, ↑whereabouts, ↑year