Trend Definition

trĕnd
trended, trending, trends
noun
trends
A general or prevailing tendency or course, as of events, a discussion, etc.; drift.
Webster's New World
The general direction of a coast, river, road, etc.
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A vogue, or current style, as in fashions.
Webster's New World

A tendency.

There is a trend, these days, for people in films not to smoke.
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(mathematics) A line drawn on a graph that approximates the trend of a number of disparate points.

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verb
trended, trending
To have a general tendency.
Webster's New World
To extend, turn, incline, bend, etc. in a specific direction; tend; run.
The river trends northward.
Webster's New World

(Internet, intransitive, informal) To be the subject of a trend; to be currently popular, relevant or interesting.

What topics have been trending on social networks this week?
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To cleanse, as wool.

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Other Word Forms of Trend

Noun

Singular:
trend
Plural:
trends

Origin of Trend

  • From Middle English trenden "to roll about, turn, revolve", from Old English trendan "to roll about, turn, revolve" from Proto-Germanic *trandijanÄ… (“to revolve"). Akin to Old English trinde "ball", Old English tryndel "circle, ring". More at trindle, trundle.

    From Wiktionary

  • From Middle English trenden to revolve from Old English trendan

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Compare German trennen (“to separate").

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Trend Sentence Examples

  • He was now in open conflict with the whole trend of public opinion.

  • Strong mountain ranges follow the trend of the Pacific coast, 150 or 200 m.

  • But there is no continuous tradition or steady trend of discussion.

  • The trend of his letters was to impress on the boy a profound sense of the high destinies to which he was born, the necessity for keeping his nobles apart from all share in the conduct of the internal government of his kingdom, and the wisdom of distrusting counsellors, who would be sure to wish to influence him for their own ends.

  • The differences of salinity support this method, and, especially in the northern European seas, often prove a sharper criterion of the boundaries than temperature itself; this is especially the case at the entrance to the Baltic. Evidence drawn from drift-wood, wrecks or special drift bottles is less distinct but still interesting and often useful; this method of investigation includes the use of icebergs as indicators of the trend of currents and also of plankton, the minute swimming or drifting organisms so abundant at the surface of the sea.

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Words Starting With

TTRTRE

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