trend

1. v. i. To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend; as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest. Source: opted

2. v. t. To cause to turn; to bend. Source: opted

3. n. Inclination in a particular direction; tendency; general direction; as, the trend of a coast. Source: opted

4. v. t. To cleanse, as wool. Source: opted

5. n. Clean wool. Source: opted

6. n. a general direction in which something tends to move Source: wordnet

7. n. general line of orientation Source: wordnet

8. n. a general tendency to change (as of opinion) Source: wordnet

9. n. the popular taste at a given time Source: wordnet

10. v. turn sharply; change direction abruptly Source: wordnet

11. v. to be temporarily popular Source: wordnet

12. To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend; as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest. To cause to turn; to bend. [R.] Not far beneath i' the valley as she trends Her silver stream. W. Browne. 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. To cleanse, as wool. [Prov. Eng.] Clean wool. [Prov. Eng.] Source: webster

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