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单词 trend
释义 trend
I. \ˈtrend\ verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English trenden to turn, revolve, from Old English trendan; akin to Old Frisian trind, trund round, Old English trinda, trinde round lump, ball, trendel circle, ring, Middle Low German trent ring, boundary, Middle High German trendel disk, spinning top, trinnen to run forth, tear away from, trennen to break off, sever, Old English teran to tear — more at tear
intransitive verb
1.
 a. : to extend in a general direction : follow a general course
  < jagged ranges of mountains … trend north and south — G.R.Stewart >
  < the track led into caverns that trended upwards into the rock — John Masefield >
 b. : to veer in a new direction : take a turn : bend, curve
  < Penobscot Bay … trends deeply into Maine — Bernard De Voto >
2.
 a. : to show an inherent tendency or general drift : incline, move
  < selling costs have trended upward — Printers' Ink >
  < the direction Italian thought is trending — Fletcher Pratt >
  < people have a right to know how affairs of such great moment are trending — Arthur Krock >
 b. : to become deflected : shift
  < the flow of population may trend his way — Alfred Marshall >
transitive verb
: to cause to follow or conform to a trend
 < laying the several courses … and trending them to the abutments — Civil Engineer & Architect's Journal >
 < trended costs >
II. noun
(-s)
1.
 a. : the line of direction or movement : orientation, flow
  < the long northeastern trend of the coast — Samuel Van Valkenburg & Ellsworth Huntington >
 b. : the directional line of a rock bed or petroleum deposit : strike
  < postulation of possible mineral trendsEconomic Geology >
  < the trends of all the oil-bearing belts are known with considerable accuracy — John Pain >
 c. : the lower end of the shank of an anchor from about the length of one of the arms to the throat
2.
 a. : a prevailing tendency or inclination : drift, leaning
  < the trend of opinion was distinctively conservative — C.L.Becker >
  < contemporary trends in education >
  < the trend toward government participation in economic affairs — Louis Wasserman >
 b. : a general movement : swing
  < the trend away from the land — Frank Hamilton >
  < the trend toward shorter work periods — H.M.Diamond >
 c. : a current style or preference : vogue
  < the longer waistline trend — Dorothy O'Neill >
  < the trend of yellow in kitchens — Dun's Review >
 d. : a line of development : approach
  < important new trends in cancer have appeared in the clinical literature — D.A.Karnofsky >
3.
 a. : the general movement over a sufficiently long period of time of some statistical progressive change
  < trend of the stock market >
  < population trend >
  < upward trend of the cost of living >
 b. : a straight line or other statistical curve showing the tendency of some function to grow or decline over a period of time
  < a sensitive barometer of giving trends through mass mailings — Jerome Ellison >
  < trends in parasitization — Journal of Economic Entomology >
Synonyms: see tendency
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