TREND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trend mean? 

• TREND (noun)
  The noun TREND has 4 senses:

1. a general direction in which something tends to move

2. general line of orientation

3. a general tendency to change (as of opinion)

4. the popular taste at a given time

  Familiarity information: TREND used as a noun is uncommon.

• TREND (verb)
  The verb TREND has 1 sense:

1. turn sharply; change direction abruptly

  Familiarity information: TREND used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TREND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A general direction in which something tends to move

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

tendency; trend

Context example:

the trend of the stock market

Hypernyms ("trend" is a kind of...):

direction; way (a line leading to a place or point)

Sense 2

Meaning:

General line of orientation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

course; trend

Context example:

the northeastern trend of the coast

Hypernyms ("trend" is a kind of...):

direction; way (a line leading to a place or point)

Derivation:

trend (turn sharply; change direction abruptly)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A general tendency to change (as of opinion)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

drift; movement; trend

Context example:

a broad movement of the electorate to the right

Hypernyms ("trend" is a kind of...):

disposition; inclination; tendency (an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "trend"):

evolutionary trend (a general direction of evolutionary change)

gravitation (a figurative movement toward some attraction)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The popular taste at a given time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

style; trend; vogue

Context example:

the 1920s had a style of their own

Hypernyms ("trend" is a kind of...):

appreciation; discernment; perceptiveness; taste (delicate discrimination (especially of aesthetic values))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "trend"):

New Look (a style of women's clothing created by Christian Dior in 1947; involved a tight bodice and narrow waist and a flowing pleated skirt)

fashion (the latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior)

bandwagon (a popular trend that attracts growing support)

Derivation:

trendy (in accord with the latest fad)

• TREND (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they trend    ... he / she / it trends   
Past simple: trended   
Past participle: trended   
-ing form: trending   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Turn sharply; change direction abruptly

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

curve; cut; sheer; slew; slue; swerve; trend; veer

Context example:

The motorbike veered to the right

Hypernyms (to "trend" is one way to...):

turn (change orientation or direction, also in the abstract sense)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "trend"):

peel off (leave a formation)

yaw (swerve off course momentarily)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Derivation:

trend (general line of orientation)

 Context examples 

This trend was started last month, when Jupiter first entered this sector, joining Saturn and Pluto already there.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

This study identifies a trend but does not prove cause and effect.

(High Temp Grilled Meat May Raise Blood Pressure, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This trend was seen for separate causes of death, as well as when all causes were combined.

(Greenness around homes linked to lower mortality, NIH)

In addition, the past weakening of the AMOC was much more dramatic than today’s trend so far.

(A new study is the first to measure the time lags between changing ocean currents and major climate shifts., University of Cambridge)

They found no sign of such a trend.

(Reduce Risk of Early Death with Any Amount of Running, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

They also looked at almonds, and here, too, found the trend continued.

(Going Nuts Over Calories, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

The ONS is an excellent resource for current trends in cancer care and therapies.

(Oncology Nurse Specialist, NCI Thesaurus)

And I was frightened when I became conscious of the trend of my thought.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Population-based studies that describe trends and associations between risk factors, habits, and a specific chronic disease, such as cancer.

(Epidemiology, Descriptive, NCI Thesaurus)

I alluded merely to the trend of modern thought and the general scientific point of view, if I might so express it.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)