Dictionary Definition
trend
Noun
1 a general direction in which something tends to
move; "the shoreward tendency of the current"; "the trend of the
stock market" [syn: tendency]
2 general line of orientation; "the river takes a
southern course"; "the northeastern trend of the coast" [syn:
course]
3 a general tendency to change (as of opinion);
"not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book"; "a broad
movement of the electorate to the right" [syn: drift, movement]
4 the popular taste at a given time; "leather is
the latest vogue"; "he followed current trends"; "the 1920s had a
style of their own" [syn: vogue, style] v : turn sharply; change
direction abruptly; "The car cut to the left at the intersection";
"The motorbike veered to the right" [syn: swerve, sheer, curve, veer, slue, slew, cut]
User Contributed Dictionary
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English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɛnd
Noun
Translations
general direction
A fad or fashion trend
- Croatian: trend
- Finnish: trendi, muoti, villitys, tyyli, muotisuuntaus
- German: Trend
Verb
- To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend.
- The shore of the sea trends to the southwest.
- To cause to turn; to bend.
Translations
To have a particular direction; to run; to
stretch; to tend
- Finnish: kulkea, suuntautua
To cause to turn; to bend
- Finnish: kääntää
Translations to be checked
- ttbc French: tendre vers
- ttbc Portuguese: tender
- ttbc Spanish: tender
Derived terms
Croatian
Etymology
From trend.Noun
hr-noun mItalian
Noun
trendSynonyms
Extensive Definition
Trend may refer to:
- Fads and trends
- Trendsetter (or early adopter). A person among the few who start a fashion or technology.
- Trend estimation
- Market trends, a prolonged period of time when prices in a financial market are rising or falling faster than their historical average, also known as "bull" and "bear" markets, respectively
- Real estate trends, changes impacting real estate brokers, agents and the housing industry
- Fashion trends, longer-term developments in fashion
- Trends (journals), a series of scientific journals of biology
- "Trends" (Asimov), a 1939 science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov
- Trend Micro, a Taiwanese company that develops anti-virus computer software
- Trend Controls, a UK company that develops intelligent building solutions
- trend is dead! records, a record label
- Trend Records (UK), A record label
- Trend Records, a record label
- Periodic trends in chemistry
trend in German: Trend
trend in French: Tendance
trend in Dutch: Trend
trend in Polish: Trend
trend in Russian: Тренд
trend in Swedish: Trend
trend in Turkish: Trend
trend in Chinese: 趨勢
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Brownian movement, Zeitgeist, advance, affluence, afflux, affluxion, aim, angular motion, ascending, ascent, axial motion, azimuth, backflowing, backing, backward motion,
bear, bear off, bearing, bend, bend to, bent, bias, bon ton, branch off, career, change the bearing,
climbing, concourse, conduce, confluence, conflux, contribute, convention, course, craze, crosscurrent, cry, current, curve, custom, defluxion, depart from,
descending, descent, detour, deviate, digress, direction, direction line,
dispose, divagate, divaricate, diverge, downflow, downpour, downward motion,
drift, driftage, ebb, ebbing, fad, fashion, flight, flood, flow, flow back, flow in, flow out,
flowing, fluency, flush, flux, forward motion, furore, glacial movement,
go, gush, haute couture, have a
tendency, head, heading, heel, helmsmanship, high fashion,
hold a heading, inclination, incline, inflow, issue, lay, lead, lean, leaning, lie, line, line of direction, line of
march, look, look to, main
current, mainstream,
make, mill run, millrace, mode, motion, mounting, movement, navigation, oblique motion,
ongoing, onrush, onward course, orientation, outflow, passage, piloting, plunging, point, point to, pour, prevailing taste, progress, progression, proper thing,
quarter, race, radial motion, rage, random motion, range, redound to, reflowing, refluence, reflux, regression, regurgitate, retrogression, rising, run, rush, serve, set, set toward, sheer, shift, show a tendency, sideward
motion, sinking,
soaring, spate, steer, steerage, steering, sternway, stream, stream of fashion,
style, subsiding, surge, surge back, swerve, swim, swing, tack, tend, tend to go, tendency, tenor, the general tendency, the
main course, thing,
tide, time spirit, tone, track, traject, trajet, turn, turn aside, undercurrent, undertow, upward motion,
vary, veer, verge, vogue, warp, water flow, way, wind, work
toward