trend
noun
[ trɛnd ]
• a general direction in which something is developing or changing.
• "an upward trend in sales and profit margins"
Similar:
tendency,
movement,
drift,
swing,
shift,
course,
current,
run,
direction,
inclination,
leaning,
bias,
bent,
• a fashion.
• "the latest trends in modern dance"
• a topic that is the subject of many posts on a social media website or application within a short period of time.
• "for more than 20 days in a row, most of the top Twitter trends were Olympics-related"
trend
verb
• change or develop in a general direction.
• "unemployment has been trending upwards"
Similar:
move,
go,
tend,
head,
drift,
gravitate,
swing,
shift,
turn,
incline,
lean,
veer,
• (of a topic) be the subject of many posts on a social media website or application within a short period of time.
• "I've just taken a quick look at what's trending on Twitter right now"
Origin:
Old English trendan ‘revolve, rotate’, of Germanic origin; compare with trundle. The verb sense ‘turn in a specified direction’ dates from the late 16th century, and gave rise to the figurative use ‘develop in a general direction’ in the mid 19th century, a development paralleled in the noun.
