Original vs Current - What's the difference?
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(label) Relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others.
*{{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)
, title= (label) First in a series or copies/versions.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 (label) Newly created.
(label) Fresh, different.
(label) Pioneering.
(label) Having as its origin.
An object or other creation (e.g. narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived
A person with a unique and interesting personality and/or creative talent
(archaic) An eccentric
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
As adjectives the difference between original and current
is that original is relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others while current is existing or occurring at the moment.As nouns the difference between original and current
is that original is an object or other creation (e.g. narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived while current is the part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction.original
English
Adjective
(en adjective)The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}
citation, passage=The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, […].}}
Synonyms
* (first in series ) initial * autograph * prototypeAntonyms
* copy * derivative * reproduction * simileDerived terms
* originally * original sinNoun
(en noun)- This manuscript is the original
- You’re an original
Synonyms
* autograph * prototypeAntonyms
* copy * remake * reproductionStatistics
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* * ----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.