Recent vs. Current: What's the Difference?
Recent and Current Definitions
Recent
Of, belonging to, or occurring at a time immediately before the present.
Current
Belonging to the present time; present-day
Current events.
Current leaders.
My current address.
Recent
Modern; new.
Current
Being in progress now
Current negotiations.
Recent
Recent(Geology) Of, relating to, or being the Holocene Epoch. See Table at geologic time.
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Current
Commonly accepted or used; prevalent
Current fashions.
Current technology.
Recent
Having happened a short while ago.
Current
Passing from one to another; circulating, as money or a rumor
Current bills and coins.
Recent
Up-to-date; not old-fashioned or dated.
Current
Running; flowing.
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Recent
Having done something a short while ago that distinguishes them as what they are called.
The cause has several hundred recent donors.
I met three recent graduates at the conference.
Current
A steady, smooth onward flow or movement
A current of air from a fan.
A current of spoken words.
Recent
(sciences) Particularly in geology, palaeontology, and astronomy: having occurred a relatively short time ago, but still potentially thousands or even millions of years ago.
Current
The part of a body of liquid or gas that has a continuous onward movement
Rowed out into the river's swift current.
Recent
Of the Holocene, particularly pre-21st century.
Current
A general tendency, movement, or course.
Recent
An earlier term for the Holocene.
Current
A flow of electric charge.
Recent
Of late origin, existence, or occurrence; lately come; not of remote date, antiquated style, or the like; not already known, familiar, worn out, trite, etc.; fresh; novel; new; modern; as, recent news.
The ancients were of opinion, that a considerable portion of that country [Egypt] was recent, and formed out of the mud discharged into the neighboring sea by the Nile.
Current
The amount of electric charge flowing past a specified circuit point per unit time, usually expressed in amperes.
Recent
Of or pertaining to the present or existing epoch; as, recent shells.
Current
The generally unidirectional movement of a gas or fluid.
Recent
Being new in a time not long past;
Recent graduates
A recent addition to the house
Recent buds on the apple trees
Current
The part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction, especially (oceanography) nocap=a.
Recent
Of the immediate past or just previous to the present time;
A late development
Their late quarrel
His recent trip to Africa
In recent months
A recent issue of the journal
Current
(electricity) the amount of electric charge flowing in each unit of time.
Recent
Near to or not long before the present;
Recent times
Of recent origin
Current
A tendency or a course of events
Current
Existing or occurring at the moment.
Current events
Current leaders
Current negotiations
Current
Generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment.
Current affairs
Current bills and coins
Current fashions
Current
(India) Electric; of or relating to electricity.
Current bill
Current shock
Current
(obsolete) Running or moving rapidly.
Current
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.
Current
Now passing, as time; as, the current month.
Current
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.
Current
Commonly estimated or acknowledged.
Current
Fitted for general acceptance or circulation; authentic; passable.
O Buckingham, now do I play the touchTo try if thou be current gold indeed.
Current
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.
Current
General course; ordinary procedure; progressive and connected movement; as, the current of time, of events, of opinion, etc.
Current
A flow of electricity through a conductor;
The current was measured in amperes
Current
A steady flow (usually from natural causes);
The raft floated downstream on the current
He felt a stream of air
Current
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
Current
Occurring in or belonging to the present time;
Current events
The current topic
Current negotiations
Current psychoanalytic theories
The ship's current position
