different between current vs cursor

English

Etymology

From Middle English curraunt, borrowed from Old French curant (French courant), present participle of courre (“to run”), from Latin currere, present active infinitive of curr? (“I run”) (present participle currens). Doublet of courant.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k???nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k???nt/, /?k???nt/
• (accents without the "Hurry-furry" merger)
• (accents with the "Hurry-furry" merger)

Noun

current (countable and uncountable, plural currents)

1. The generally unidirectional movement of a gas or fluid.
2. the part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction, especially (oceanography) short for ocean current.

   Synonyms: flow, stream

3. (electricity) the time rate of flow of electric charge.

   • Symbol: I (inclined upper case letter "I")
   • Units:

   SI: ampere (A)

   CGS: esu/second (esu/s)

   Synonym: electric current

4. a tendency or a course of events

   Synonyms: flow, stream, tendency

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Adjective

current (comparative currenter or more current, superlative currentest or most current)

1. existing or occurring at the moment

   Synonyms: present; see also Thesaurus:present

   Antonyms: future, past

2. generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment
   • 1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. Explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations

     That there was current money in Abraham's time is past doubt.

   Synonyms: fashionable, prevailing, prevalent, rife, up-to-date; see also Thesaurus:fashionable

   Antonyms: out-of-date, unfashionable; see also Thesaurus:unfashionable

3. (obsolete) running or moving rapidly

   • Lik to the corrant fyr that renneth
     Upon a corde

   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien

     To chase a creature that was current then / In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns.

   Synonym: speeding

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Translations

Anagrams

• Curtner

Latin

Verb

current

1. third-person plural future active indicative of curr?

English

Alternative forms

• cursour (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cursor (“runner”), from curr? (“run”) + -or (agentive suffix). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /k??s??/, [?k??? s??]
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??s??/, [?k??? s?]
• Rhymes: -??(?)s?(?)

Noun

cursor (plural cursors)

1. a part of any of several scientific instruments that moves back and forth to indicate a position
2. (graphical user interface) a moving icon or other representation of the position of the pointing device
3. (graphical user interface) an indicator, often a blinking line or bar, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place

   Synonym: the caret

4. (databases) a reference to a row of data in a table, which moves from row to row as data is retrieved by way of it
5. (programming) a design pattern in object oriented methodology in which a collection is iterated uniformly

   Synonym: the iterator pattern

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Verb

cursor (third-person singular simple present cursors, present participle cursoring, simple past and past participle cursored)

1. (intransitive, computing) To navigate by means of the cursor keys.
   • 1990, InfoWorld (volume 12, number 22, 28 May 1990)

     The only other problem is that there's a nagging tendency for the highlight to overrun when cursoring through file lists.

See also

• electronic display
• GUI
• pointer

Anagrams

• Curros

Latin

Etymology

From curr? (“run”) +? -sor.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?kur.sor/, [?k?rs??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?kur.sor/, [?kurs?r]

Noun

cursor m (genitive curs?ris); third declension

1. a runner, racer
2. a courier, messenger, post
3. a slave, who ran before the chariot of a grandee, forerunner

Declension

Third-declension noun.

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Descendants

References

• cursor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cursor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• cursor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• cursor in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cursor in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cursor, curs?rem.

Noun

cursor m (plural cursores)

1. cursor (part of scientific instruments that indicates a value or position)
2. (graphical user interface) cursor (icon representing the position of a pointing device)

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Romanian

Etymology

From French curseur

Noun

cursor n (plural cursoare)

1. cursor

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cursor, curs?rem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ku??so?/, [ku??so?]

Noun

cursor m (plural cursores)

1. (computing) cursor

   Synonym: puntero

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