trend
trend is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 5 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend; as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest.
- 2.To cause to turn; to bend. [R.] Not far beneath i' the valley as she trends Her silver stream. W. Browne.
- 3.Inclination in a particular direction; tendency; general direction; as, the trend of a coast. Trend of an anchor. (Naut.) (a) The lower end of the shank of an anchor, being the same distance on the shank from the throat that the arm measures from the throat to the bill. R. H. Dana, Jr. (b) The angle made by the line of a vessel's keel and the direction of the anchor cable, when she is swinging at anchor.
- 4.To cleanse, as wool. [Prov. Eng.]
- 5.Clean wool. [Prov. Eng.]
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- affect
- aid
- applicability
- aptitude
- aptness
- bend
- bent
- bias
- bid
- calculated
- carry
- cast
- conatus
- conduce
- conducive
- conduciveness
- contribute
- direction
- dispose
- drift
- fair
- for
- grain
- gravitate
- humor
- idiocrasy
- idiosyncrasy
- inclination
- incline
- instrumental
- instrumentality
- lead
- leaning
- liability
- liable
- mood
- nature
- nisus
- predisposition
- proclivity
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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