Current vs. Dated

Currentnoun

The part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction.

Datedadjective

Marked with a date.

‘The first dated entry in the diary was from October 1922.’;

Currentnoun

(electricity) The time rate of flow of electric charge.

Datedadjective

Outdated.

‘"Omnibus" is a dated term for a bus.’;

Currentnoun

A tendency or a course of events.

Datedadjective

Anachronistic; being obviously inappropriate for its present context.

Currentadjective

Existing or occurring at the moment.

‘current events;’; ‘current leaders;’; ‘current negotiations’;

Datedadjective

No longer fashionable.

Currentadjective

Generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment.

‘current affairs;’; ‘current bills and coins;’; ‘current fashions’;

Datedverb

simple past tense and past participle of date

Currentadjective

(obsolete) Running or moving rapidly.

Dated

marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past.

Currentadjective

Running or moving rapidly.

‘Like the current fire, that rennethUpon a cord.’; ‘To chase a creature that was current thenIn these wild woods, the hart with golden horns.’;

Dated

bearing a date; as, dated and stamped documents.

Currentadjective

Now passing, as time; as, the current month.

Datedadjective

marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past

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.

‘That there was current money in Abraham's time is past doubt.’; ‘Your fire-new stamp of honor is scarce current.’; ‘His current value, which is less or more as men have occasion for him.’;

Datedadjective

bearing a date;

‘dated and stamped documents’;

Currentadjective

Commonly estimated or acknowledged.

Currentadjective

Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable.

‘O Buckingham, now do I play the touchTo try if thou be current gold indeed.’;

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.

‘Two such silver currents, when they join,Do glorify the banks that bound them in.’; ‘The surface of the ocean is furrowed by currents, whose direction . . . the navigator should know.’;

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;

‘the current was measured in amperes’;

Currentnoun

a steady flow (usually from natural causes);

‘the raft floated downstream on the current’; ‘he felt a stream of air’;

Currentnoun

dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas;

‘two streams of development run through American history’; ‘stream of consciousness’; ‘the flow of thought’; ‘the current of history’;

Currentadjective

occurring in or belonging to the present time;

‘current events’; ‘the current topic’; ‘current negotiations’; ‘current psychoanalytic theories’; ‘the ship's current position’;

Currentadjective

belonging to the present time; happening or being used or done now

‘keep abreast of current events’; ‘I started my current job in 2001’;

Currentadjective

in common or general use

‘the other meaning of the word is still current’;

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

‘ocean currents’;

Currentnoun

a flow of electricity which results from the ordered directional movement of electrically charged particles

‘this completes the circuit so that a current flows to the lamp’; ‘magnetic fields are produced by currents flowing in the cables’;

Currentnoun

a quantity representing the rate of flow of electric charge, usually measured in amperes

‘at high currents there is wasteful power dissipation’;

Currentnoun

the general tendency or course of events or opinion

‘the student movement formed a distinct current of protest’;