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1.
the general course or prevailing tendency; drift: trends in the teaching of foreign languages; the trend of events.
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style or vogue: the new trend in women's apparel.
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the general direction followed by a road, river, coastline, or the like.
verb (used without object)
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to have a general tendency, as events, conditions, etc.
5.
to tend to take a particular direction; extend in some direction indicated.
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to emerge as a popular trend; be currently popular: trending topics on the Internet; words that have trended this year.
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to veer or turn off in a specified direction, as a river, mountain range, etc.: The river trends toward the southeast.
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Trended
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trend
1598, "to run or bend in a certain direction" (of rivers, coasts, etc.), from M.E. trenden "to roll about, turn, revolve," from O.E. trendan, from P.Gmc. *trandijanan (cf. O.E. trinde "round lump, ball," O.Fris. trind, M.L.G. trint "round," M.L.G. trent "ring, boundary," Du. trent "circumference," Dan.
EXPANDtrind "round"); origin and connections outside Gmc. uncertain. Sense of "have a general tendency" (used of events, opinions, etc.) is first recorded 1863, from the nautical sense. The noun meaning "the way something bends" (coastline, mountain range, etc.) is recorded from 1777; sense of "general tendency" is from 1884. Trend-setter first attested 1960; trendy is from 1962.
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