current intelligence | intelligence of all types and forms of immediate interest, usually disseminated without delays for evaluation or interpretation |
carrier | (genetics) an organism that possesses a recessive gene whose effect is masked by a dominant allele, the associated trait is not apparent but can be passed on to offspring |
carrier pigeon | a homing pigeon used to carry messages |
aircraft carrier carrier flattop attack aircraft carrier | a large warship that carries planes and has a long flat deck for takeoffs and landings |
armored personnel carrier armoured personnel carrier APC | (military) an armored vehicle (usually equipped with caterpillar treads) that is used to transport infantry |
car carrier | a trailer that can be loaded with new cars for delivery to sales agencies |
carrier | a rack attached to a vehicle, for carrying luggage or skis or the like |
carrier | a self-propelled wheeled vehicle designed specifically to carry something, refrigerated carriers have revolutionized the grocery business |
luggage carrier | carrier (as behind a bicycle seat) for luggage |
personnel carrier | a military vehicle (usually armored) for transporting military personnel and their equipment |
sack poke paper bag carrier bag | a bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases |
troop carrier troop transport | any land or sea or air vehicle designed to carry troops |
weapons carrier | military vehicle that is a light truck designed to carry mortars or machine guns and their crews |
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 |
carrier common carrier | a person or firm in the business of transporting people or goods or messages |
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 |
ball carrier runner | (football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play |
carrier immune carrier | (medicine) a person (or animal) who has some pathogen to which he is immune but who can pass it on to others |
carrier newsboy | a boy who delivers newspapers |
carrier bearer toter | someone whose employment involves carrying something, the bonds were transmitted by carrier |
hod carrier hodman | a laborer who carries supplies to masons or bricklayers |
mailman postman mail carrier letter carrier carrier | a man who delivers the mail |
supernumerary spear carrier extra | a minor actor in crowd scenes |
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 |
carrier wave carrier | a radio wave that can be modulated in order to transmit a signal |
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 |
paper electrophoresis carrier electrophoresis | electrophoresis carried out on filter paper |
current unit | a measure of the amount of electric charge flowing past a circuit point at a specific time |
carrier | an inactive substance that is a vehicle for a radioactive tracer of the same substance and that assists in its recovery after some chemical reaction |
current | occurring in or belonging to the present time, current events, the current topic, current negotiations, current psychoanalytic theories, the ship's current position |