Thesaurus: trend
To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend; as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest.
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Definitions
- v. i. To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend; as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest.
- v. t. To cause to turn; to bend.
- n. Inclination in a particular direction; tendency; general direction; as, the trend of a coast.
- v. t. To cleanse, as wool.
- n. Clean wool.
- n. a general direction in which something tends to move
- n. general line of orientation
- n. a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
- n. the popular taste at a given time
- v. turn sharply; change direction abruptly
- v. to be temporarily popular