Meaning of trend | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An inclination in a particular direction.
2. Clean wool.
   UK, dated, dialectal, uncountable
3. Trend, tendency.
4. A surname.
5. A tendency.
6. A town in Vesthimmerland Municipality, North Jutland, Denmark.
7. A fad or fashion style.
8. A line drawn on a graph that approximates the trend of a number of disparate points.
9. 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.
10. The angle made by the line of a vessel's keel and the direction of the anchor cable, when she is swinging at anchor.

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Examples

“the trend of a coastline”

“the upward trend of stock-market prices”

“Nevertheless, it is clear that the global energy demand for air-conditioning will grow substantially as nations become more affluent,[…]. This trend will put additional strain not only on global energy resources but also on the environmental prospects of a warming planet.”

“There is a trend, these days, for people in films not to smoke.”

“Miniskirts were one of the biggest trends of the 1960s.”

“To stay on top of what's happening, a good photographer has to follow the trends by watching what's being done in fashion magazines.”

“But musical ancestry aside, the influence to which Bieber is most beholden is the current trends in pop music, which means Believe is loaded up with EDM accouterments, seeking a comfortable middle ground where Bieber’s impressively refined pop-R&B croon can rub up on techno blasts and garish dubstep drops (and occasionally grind on some AutoTune, not necessarily because it needs it, but because a certain amount of robo-voice is expected these days).”

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