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Current vs Foredraft - What's the difference?

current | foredraft |

As nouns the difference between current and foredraft

is that current is the part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction while foredraft is land leading from a dwelling to a road or field.

As an adjective current

is existing or occurring at the moment.

current

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction.
  • (electricity) The time rate of flow of electric charge.
  • :* Symbol': '''''I (inclined upper case letter "I")
  • :* Units:
  • :: SI: ampere (A)
  • :: CGS: esu/second (esu/s)
  • A tendency or a course of events.

    • Synonyms

    * (part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction ): flow, stream * (time rate of flow of electric charge ): electric current * (tendency or course of events ): flow, stream, tendency

    Derived terms

    * undercurrent

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Existing or occurring at the moment.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Timothy Garton Ash)
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  • Generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment.
  • * Arbuthnot
    • That there was current money in Abraham's time is past doubt.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= T time , passage=The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them
  • (obsolete) Running or moving rapidly.
  • * Gower
    • Like the current fire, that renneth / Upon a cord.
  • * Tennyson
    • To chase a creature that was current then / In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns.

    Synonyms

    * (existing or occurring at the moment ): present * (generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment ): fashionable, prevailing, prevalent, rife, up-to-date

    Antonyms

    * (existing or occurring at the moment ): future, past * (generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment ): out-of-date, unfashionable

    Related terms

    * current account * current events * currently ----

    foredraft

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Land leading from a dwelling to a road or field.
    • Farm containing messuage, barns, stable, buildings, gardens, foldyard and rickyard (1.1.39), the lane or Foredraft … — Shropshire Archives, 1835
    He returned at last, and pointing to a tree that stood over on the far side of the foredraft which led up to the farm,…'' — ''A Modern Antaeus , 1901
    We would have scurried across the farmyard, scattering the flustered fowl as we went, then down the foredraft to wait by the gate…'' — Richard P. Mayer, ''The Young Gongoozler , 2010
  • A current of air that flows forward
    • If the connections to the two plenums are air-tite, then there will be a back draft in one stream and a foredraft … — HVAC-Talk, 2006
    Not phased by trucks or light winds. You drift into their foredraft and then back out of their backdraft as one solid unit … — TundraTalk, Towing Report, 2007
    The freight, after passing through Brick Station, would switch onto a trunk line and skirt the yards on its way north to Chicago. He listened intently, and picked up the foredraft of its cattle cars.'' — C.K. Robin, ''Judas Goat: A Fable
  • (nautical) The draft at the fore perpendicular. Also "fore draft".
    • ... wherein said foredraft part includes at least a moorage hull part, — Floating offshore structure : U.S. Patent Number 4,519,728, 1985