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Trend   /trɛnd/   Listen
noun
Trend  n.  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.
(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.


Trend  n.  Clean wool. (Prov. Eng.)


verb
Trend  v. t.  To cause to turn; to bend. (R.) "Not far beneath i' the valley as she trends Her silver stream."


Trend  v. t.  To cleanse, as wool. (Prov. Eng.)


Trend  v. i.  (past & past part. trended; pres. part. trending)  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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"Trend" Quotes from Famous Books



... so busy watching Billie's flushed, excited and altogether charming face that he more than once lost the trend of ...
— Billie Bradley and Her Inheritance - The Queer Homestead at Cherry Corners • Janet D. Wheeler
... roughly $100 billion. Growth slowed to 1.5% in 1999, largely due to lower export demand and still-low business confidence. Recovering Asian demand, a push for fiscal consolidation, and newly proposed business and income tax cuts - if passed - are expected to boost growth back to trend rates around 2.5% in 2000 and beyond. The adoption of a common European currency and the general political and economic integration of Europe will bring major changes to the German economy in ...
— The 2000 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... the West should ultimately be controlled by a system of formal examination, may be said to have been predestined by the general trend of religious thought and belief. Wherever literal obedience is regarded as the first, if not the last, condition of salvation, the tendency to measure worth and progress by the outward results that are produced will inevitably spring up and assert itself. In this tendency ...
— What Is and What Might Be - A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular • Edmond Holmes
... us then to be secure and untroubled: "Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights—then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward; that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an ...
— United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches - From Washington to George W. Bush • Various
... the first part of the way, that is to say, the trend of the land is downhill, for be it down or up, the details of it are rugged mounds and masses of burnt-out lava rock. It is evil going, but perhaps not quite so evil as the lower hillocks of the great wall where the ...
— Travels in West Africa • Mary H. Kingsley


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