Difference between Stream and Current

What is the difference between Stream and Current?

Stream as a noun is a small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks while Current as a noun is the part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction.

Stream

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To flow in a continuous or steady manner, like a liquid. To push continuous data (e.g. music) from a server to a client computer while it is being used (played) on the client.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks A thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas (e.g. air) Any steady flow or succession of material, such as water, air, radio signal or words An umbrella term for all moving waters. A source or repository of data that can be read or written only sequentially. A division of a school year by perceived ability.

Example sentence: You don't know how to fix the holes in our ozone layer. You don't know how to bring salmon back up a dead stream. You don't know how to bring back an animal now extinct. And you can't bring back forests that once grew where there is now desert. If you don't know how to fix it, please stop breaking it!

Current

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction.The time rate of flow of electric charge.A tendency or a course of events.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Existing or occurring at the moment.Generally accepted, used, practiced, or prevalent at the moment.

Example sentence: When decentralized blockchain protocols start displacing the centralized web services that dominate the current Internet, we'll start to see real internet-based sovereignty. The future Internet will be decentralized.

We hope you now know whether to use Stream or Current in your sentence.

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