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Meaning of trend

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  trend
      n 1: a general direction in which something tends to move; "the
           shoreward tendency of the current"; "the trend of the stock
           market" [syn: {tendency}, {trend}]
      2: general line of orientation; "the river takes a southern
         course"; "the northeastern trend of the coast" [syn:
         {course}, {trend}]
      3: a general tendency to change (as of opinion); "not openly
         liberal but that is the trend of the book"; "a broad movement
         of the electorate to the right" [syn: {drift}, {trend},
         {movement}]
      4: the popular taste at a given time; "leather is the latest
         vogue"; "he followed current trends"; "the 1920s had a style
         of their own" [syn: {vogue}, {trend}, {style}]
      v 1: turn sharply; change direction abruptly; "The car cut to
           the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the
           right" [syn: {swerve}, {sheer}, {curve}, {trend}, {veer},
           {slue}, {slew}, {cut}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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