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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



... debasement of industrial serfdom, the black workman wished the American people of 1914 to stop the trend of their strenuous existence and behold him ... and test him ... and proclaim him. He not only wished to be given a free field and a fair chance to work at the same job, for the same wage, during the same hours, and under the same conditions ...
— Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights • Kelly Miller
... pledge anew, Septimius, such gages Of May-time's radiant rout Till, as becometh fishermen and sages, Our talk shall trend to trout— ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 18, 1914 • Various
... dissemination of the Word itself. Since its occupation by the Germans in "'71," great contrasting elements have sprung up. Nowhere, not even in the "up-to-date" Rhine cities of Germany, is better exemplified the trend of the age in which we live. There are notable indications of its modernity in the architecture of public and private buildings, many streets and boulevards of the city being laid out anew and bisecting ...
— The Cathedrals of Northern France • Francis Miltoun
... generations have squabbled over these famous "Pillar Towers of Ireland," but the general trend of scientific opinion is that they are of early Christian origin. Father Matt Horgan, a famous Munster antiquary, humorously started the theory that they were built to puzzle posterity, which they have very successfully ...
— The Sunny Side of Ireland - How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway • John O'Mahony and R. Lloyd Praeger
... scrutiny her face grew cold, disdainful. "Like all men," she said, sharply, as though to stay the trend of his thoughts, "you are prodigal in promises, but chary ...
— Under the Rose • Frederic Stewart Isham


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