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English

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.

Pronunciation

Noun

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
  4. (mathematics) A line drawn on a graph that approximates the trend of a number of disparate points

Verb

to 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.

Translations

To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend
To cause to turn; to bend
  • Finnish: kääntää fi(fi)
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  • French: tendre vers

Derived terms


Italian

Noun

trend m. inv.

  1. trend

Synonyms


Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English trend.

Noun

trȅnd m. (Cyrillic spelling тре̏нд)

  1. trend

Declension

declension of trend
singular plural
nominative trend trendovi
genitive trenda trendova
dative trendu trendovima
accusative trend trendove
vocative trende trendovi
locative trendu trendovima
instrumental trendom trendovima

 

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