Current vs Immediate - What's the difference?
current | immediate |
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.
Existing or occurring at the moment.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Timothy Garton Ash)
, volume=189, issue=6, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment.
* Arbuthnot
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (obsolete) Running or moving rapidly.
* Gower
* Tennyson
Happening right away, instantly, with no delay.
* Shakespeare
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 Very close; direct or adjacent.
* Shakespeare
Manifestly true; requiring no argument.
embedded as part of the instruction itself, rather than stored elsewhere (such as a register or memory location)
As adjectives the difference between current and immediate
is that current is existing or occurring at the moment while immediate is happening right away, instantly, with no delay.As a noun current
is the part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction.current
English
Noun
(en noun)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, tendencyDerived terms
* undercurrentAdjective
(en-adj)Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli, passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.}}
- That there was current money in Abraham's time is past doubt.
T time, passage=The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them
- Like the current fire, that renneth / Upon a cord.
- 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-dateAntonyms
* (existing or occurring at the moment ): future, past * (generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment ): out-of-date, unfashionableimmediate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Assemble we immediate council.
citation, passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.}}
- You are the most immediate to our throne.