| current intelligence | intelligence of all types and forms of immediate interest, usually disseminated without delays for evaluation or interpretation |
| collector | the electrode in a transistor through which a primary flow of carriers leaves the region between the electrodes |
collector's item
showpiece
piece de resistance | the outstanding item (the prize piece or main exhibit) in a collection |
| pinwheel pinwheel wind collector | a toy consisting of vanes of colored paper or plastic that is pinned to a stick and spins when it is pointed into the wind |
solar dish
solar collector
solar furnace | a concave mirror that concentrates the rays of the sun, can produce high temperatures |
streetcar
tram tramcar trolley
trolley car | a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity |
tea cart
teacart
tea trolley
tea wagon | serving cart for serving tea or light refreshments |
trolleybus
trolley coach
trackless trolley | a passenger bus with an electric motor that draws power from overhead wires |
| trolley line | a transit line using streetcars or trolley buses |
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 |
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 |
| collector | a crater that has collected cosmic material hitting the earth |
collector
gatherer
accumulator | a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes) |
| collector aggregator | a person who collects things |
garbage man
garbageman
garbage collector
garbage carter
garbage hauler
refuse collector
dustman | someone employed to collect and dispose of refuse |
lepidopterist
lepidopterologist
butterfly collector | an entomologist who specializes in the collection and study of butterflies and moths |
numismatist
numismatologist
coin collector | a collector and student of money (and coins in particular) |
philatelist
stamp collector | a collector and student of postage stamps |
| rent collector | a person who goes from house to house collecting rents for the owner |
tax collector
taxman
exciseman
collector of internal revenue
internal revenue agent | someone who collects taxes for the government |
ticket collector
ticket taker | someone who is paid to admit only those who have purchased tickets |
tollkeeper
tollman
tollgatherer
toll collector
toll taker
toll agent
toller | someone employed to collect tolls |
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 |
| current | occurring in or belonging to the present time, current events, the current topic, current negotiations, current psychoanalytic theories, the ship's current position |