Trend word meaning and definition

[noun] the popular taste at a given time; "leather is the latest vogue"; "he followed current trends"; "the 1920s had a style of their own"
[noun] 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"
[noun] general line of orientation; "the river takes a southern course"; "the northeastern trend of the coast"
[noun] a general direction in which something tends to move; "the shoreward tendency of the current"; "the trend of the stock market"
[verb] turn sharply; change direction abruptly; "The car cut to the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the right"

\Trend\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Trended}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Trending}.] [OE. trenden to roll or turn about; akin to OFries. trind, trund, round, Dan. & Sw. trind, AS. trendel a circle, ring, and E. trendle, trundle.] To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend; as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest.
\Trend\, v. t. To cause to turn; to bend. [R.] Not far beneath i' the valley as she trends Her silver stream. --W. Browne.
\Trend\, n. Inclination in a particular direction; tendency; general direction; as, the trend of a coast. {Trend of an anchor}. (Naut.)
(a) The lower end of the shank of an anchor, being the same distance on the shank from the throat that the arm measures from the throat to the bill. --R. H. Dana, Jr.
(b) The angle made by the line of a vessel's keel and the direction of the anchor cable, when she is swinging at anchor.
\Trend\, v. t. [Cf. G. & OD. trennen to separate.] To cleanse, as wool. [Prov. Eng.]
\Trend\, n. Clean wool. [Prov. Eng.]

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