Current (a.) Running or moving rapidly. |
Current (a.) Now passing, as time |
Current (a.) Passing from person to person, or from hand to hand |
Current (a.) Commonly estimated or acknowledged. |
Current (a.) Fitted for general acceptance or circulation |
Current (a.) A flowing or passing |
Current (a.) General course |
Notching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Notch |
Notching (n.) The act of making notches |
Notching (n.) The small hollow, or hollows, cut |
Notching (n.) A method of joining timbers, scantling, etc., by notching them, as at the ends, and overlapping or interlocking the notched portions. |
Notching (n.) A method of excavating, as in a bank, by a series of cuttings side by side. See also Gulleting. |
Pick (v.) To throw |
Pick (v.) To peck at, as a bird with its beak |
Pick (v.) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points |
Pick (v.) To open (a lock) as by a wire. |
Pick (v.) To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers |
Pick (v.) To remove something from with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth |
Pick (v.) To choose |
Pick (v.) To take up |
Pick (v.) To trim. |
Pick (v. i.) To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels |
Pick (v. i.) To do anything nicely or carefully, or by attending to small things |
Pick (v. i.) To steal |
Pick (n.) A sharp-pointed tool for picking |
Pick (n.) A heavy iron tool, curved and sometimes pointed at both ends, wielded by means of a wooden handle inserted in the middle, -- used by quarrymen, roadmakers, etc. |
Pick (n.) A pike or spike |
Pick (n.) Choice |
Pick (n.) That which would be picked or chosen first |
Pick (n.) A particle of ink or paper imbedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face, and occasioning a spot on a printed sheet. |
Pick (n.) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture. |
Pick (n.) The blow which drives the shuttle, -- the rate of speed of a loom being reckoned as so many picks per minute |
Pick-fault (n.) One who seeks out faults. |
Railway (n.) A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a bed or substructure. |
Railway (n.) The road, track, etc., with all the lands, buildings, rolling stock, franchises, etc., pertaining to them and constituting one property |
Rossel current () A portion of the southern equatorial current flowing westward from the Fiji Islands to New Guinea. |
Underground Railroad Underground Railway | secret aid to escaping slaves that was provided by abolitionists in the years before the American Civil War |
choice selection option pick | the act of choosing or selecting, your choice of colors was unfortunate, you can take your pick |
pick | a basketball maneuver, obstructing an opponent with one's body, he was called for setting an illegal pick |
pick-off | a baseball play in which a base runner is caught off base and tagged out |
current intelligence | intelligence of all types and forms of immediate interest, usually disseminated without delays for evaluation or interpretation |
bracer pick-me-up | a tonic or restorative (especially a drink of liquor) |
cable railway funicular funicular railway | a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars |
car railcar railway car railroad car | a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad, three cars had jumped the rails |
cog railway rack railway | railway for steep mountains, a cogwheel on the locomotive engages cogs on a center rail to provide traction |
elevated railway elevated railroad elevated el overhead railway | a railway that is powered by electricity and that runs on a track that is raised above the street level |
guitar pick | a plectrum used to pluck a guitar |
icepick ice pick | pick consisting of a steel rod with a sharp point, used for breaking up blocks of ice |
line railway line rail line | the road consisting of railroad track and roadbed |
locomotive engine locomotive engine railway locomotive | a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks |
pick pickax pickaxe | a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends, they used picks and sledges to break the rocks |
pick | a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material, he used a pick to clean the dirt out of the cracks |
pick plectrum plectron | a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument |
pickup pick-me-up | anything with restorative powers, she needed the pickup that coffee always gave her |
railroad track railroad railway | a line of track providing a runway for wheels, he walked along the railroad track |
railway railroad railroad line railway line railway system | line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight |
railway junction | a junction where two or more railway lines meet or cross |
railway station railroad station railroad terminal train station train depot | terminal where trains load or unload passengers or goods |
scenic railway | small railway in an amusement park |
woof weft filling pick | the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving |
yard railway yard railyard | an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines |
choice pick selection | the person or thing chosen or selected, he was my pick for mayor |
tidal flow tidal current | the water current caused by the tides |
riptide rip current | a strong surface current flowing outwards from a shore |
current stream | a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes), the raft floated downstream on the current, he felt a stream of air, the hose ejected a stream of water |
cream pick | the best people or things in a group, the cream of England's young men were killed in the Great War |
stream flow 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 |
trainman railroader railroad man railwayman railway man | an employee of a railroad |
alternating current AC alternating electric current | an electric current that reverses direction sinusoidally, In the US most household current is AC atcycles per second |
current electric current | a flow of electricity through a conductor, the current was measured in amperes |
direct current DC direct electric current | an electric current that flows in one direction steadily |
ocean current | the steady flow of surface ocean water in a prevailing direction |
equatorial current | any of the ocean currents that flow westward at the equator |
North Equatorial Current | an equatorial current that flows west across the Pacific just north of the equator |
South Equatorial Current | an equatorial current that flows west across the Pacific just south of the equator |
Japan current Kuroshio current Kuroshio | a warm ocean current that flows northeastwardly off the coast of Japan into the northern Pacific ocean |
Peruvian current Humboldt current | a cold ocean current that flows north along the Pacific Coast of South America before turning west |
dynamic electricity current electricity | a flow of electric charge |
thermionic current | an electric current produced between two electrodes as a result of electrons emitted by thermionic emission |
wind air current current of air | air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure, trees bent under the fierce winds, when there is no wind, row, the radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere |
red currant garden current Ribes rubrum | cultivated European current bearing small edible red berries |
liquid assets current assets quick assets | assets in the form of cash (or easily convertible into cash) |
checking account chequing account current account | a bank account against which the depositor can draw checks that are payable on demand |
current account | that part of the balance of payments recording a nation's exports and imports of goods and services and transfer payments |
current unit | a measure of the amount of electric charge flowing past a circuit point at a specific time |
picking pick | the quantity of a crop that is harvested, he sent the first picking of berries to the market, it was the biggest peach pick in years |