trend

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[edit] English

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[edit] Etymology

From Middle English trenden "to roll about, turn, revolve", from Old English trendan "to roll about, turn, revolve" from Proto-Germanic *trandijanan (to revolve). Akin to Old English trinde "ball", Old English tryndel "circle, ring". More at trindle, trundle.

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trend (plural trends)

  1. An inclination in a particular direction
    The trend of stock-market prices is generally upwards.
  2. A tendency
    There is a trend, these days, for people in films not to smoke.
  3. A fad or fashion style
    Miniskirts were one of the biggest trends of the 1980s.
  4. (mathematics) A line drawn on a graph that approximates the trend of a number of disparate points

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trend (third-person singular simple present trends, present participle trending, simple past and past participle trended)

  1. (intransitive) To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend
    The shore of the sea trends to the southwest.
  2. (transitive) To cause to turn; to bend.

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[edit] Italian

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trend m. inv.

  1. trend

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[edit] Serbo-Croatian

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From English trend.

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trȅnd m. (Cyrillic spelling тре̏нд)

  1. trend

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