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Collocations for current - noun

1. continuous flowing movement of water

ADJECTIVE

fast, fast-flowing, powerful, strong, swift
cold, warm
rip
tidal
dangerous, treacherous
ocean, water
prevailing
The prevailing current flows from east to west.
offshore

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current + VERB

flow
carry sb/sth, sweep sb/sth
The strong current carried the boat downstream.
She was swept away by the treacherous currents.

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PREPOSITION

against a/the current
He was swimming against the current.
in a/the current
The boat was carried along in the current.
with a/the current
It's easier to go with the current.

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2. flow of air

ADJECTIVE

warm
air, wind
Birds of prey use warm air currents to lift them high in the sky.
convection

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PHRASES

a current of air

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3. flow of electricity through a wire

ADJECTIVE

high, strong
low, weak
electric, electrical
alternating, direct
input, inward
output, outward

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VERB + current

generate, induce, produce
carry, conduct, pass, transmit
switch off, switch on
Check all your wiring before switching on the current.

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current + VERB

flow, pass through sth
Measure the current flowing in the wire.

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Collocations for current - adj.

Current is used with these nouns:
account, affair, asset, boyfriend, chairman, champion, chief executive, circumstance, client, climate, consensus, consumption, context, contract, controversy, craze, crisis, curriculum vitae, customer, debate, decade, demand, doctrine, document, dogma, driving licence, edition, emphasis, employer, estimate, event, evidence, expansion, expenditure, fad, fascination, fashion, form, furore, generation, girlfriend, government, home, impasse, incarnation, inhabitant, initiative, interest, issue, jargon, job, knowledge, literature, mania, mayor, month, mood, move, obsession, occupant, occupation, offering, orthodoxy, output, owner, parliament, phase, plight, popularity, position, practice, predicament, preoccupation, president, projection, quarter, record, regime, regulation, requirement, research, residence, revival, rule, ruler, salary, scandal, schedule, session, shortage, single, situation, slang, slump, stalemate, standard, standing, state, status, study, system, technology, tenant, theory, thinking, total, trend, trouble, turmoil, uncertainty, usage, use, user, valuation, version, view, vogue, wave, whereabouts, year

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