trendingn.
/ˈtrɛndɪŋ/ The action of trend v.† 1.
a. Turning round, revolution, rotation. Obsolete.
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1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum ix. i. (Tollem. MS.) Meuynge haþ cause firste and principally of trendynge [1535 trendlynge] aboute of heuen.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xi. x Of his longe trendynge [1535 trendlynge] aboute comeþ his roundnesse.
b. The winding of wool in a top: see trend v. 2b. dialect.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing wool > [noun] > winding wool in preparation for spinning
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1796 Ann. Agric. 26 455 [I] send you, by Drew, a trinded top of wool..with the locks left out of it at trinding.
2. † b. The action of continuing a course. Obsolete.
a. The fact or manner of turning, bending away, or taking a general (specified) direction, as a coastline, etc.; general direction, trend.
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the world > space > direction > [noun] > direction in which a thing extends > fact of extending in a direction
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1600 R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) III. Ded. sig. A2 For the space of fiue thousand leagues..considering the trending of the land.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 406 The Coasts, and Trendings of the crooked Shore.
1773 J. Hawkesworth Acct. Voy. Southern Hemisphere III. iii. i. 484 This point..may be known by the trending of the coast, which is north on the one side, and south-west on the other.
1823 W. Scoresby Jrnl. Voy. Northern Whale-fishery 472 Trending differs from bearing, inasmuch as it is..the direction of a coast or line of ice in regard to itself; whereas the bearing usually refers to the direction of an object, in regard to the place of an observer.
1863 A. W. Kinglake Invasion of Crimea II. xvi. 222 The trending away of the hills leaves a hollow or recess.
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1647 G. Tooke Belides 30 As a streame descending From his faire heads to sea, becomes in trending More puissant.
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ˈtrending adj.
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1856 J. Martineau Ess., Rev., & Addr. (1891) IV. 44 No treaty..can trace a boundary-line any more than a mountain-chain or trending coast can keep out the Almighty Maker of them both.
1968 D. L. Clarke Analyt. Archaeol. vi. v. 274 Once again we have six trending variables, each with three crude attitudes.
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trending adj. (of a topic or subject matter) currently popular or prevalent on social media networks.
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2007 @jesusgollonet 3 Apr. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) If I worked in, say, DARPA or the CIA I would be giddy as a school girl about the trending developments in the so-called Web 2.0 area.
2010 T. Howard Design to Thrive viii. 209 One amateur video..became a trending topic on Twitter..and had gone viral on the internet.
2015 Jordan Times (Nexis) 4 Mar. Social media users took to Twitter and Facebook.., creating a trending hashtag in Arabic that translates into ‘be proud’.
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