trend

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The general direction in which something tends to move.
2. n. A general tendency or inclination. See Synonyms at tendency.
3. n. Current style; vogue: the latest trend in fashion.
4. v. To extend, incline, or veer in a specified direction: The prevailing wind trends east-northeast.
5. v. To show a general tendency; tend: "The gender gap was trending down” ( James J. Kilpatrick).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To turn; revolve; roll.
2. To travel round or along a region, tract, etc., at its edge; skirt; coast.
3. To have a general course or direction; stretch or incline; run: as, the American coast trends southwest from Nova Scotia to Florida.
4. Figuratively, to have a general tendency or proclivity; incline; lean; turn. See trend, n., 2.
5. In geology and mining, same as strike, 5.
6. To cause to turn or roll.
7. To follow the course or direction of; coast along.
8. n. A general course or direction; inclination of the course of something toward a particular line or point.
9. n. A general tendency or proclivity; a final drift or bent; an ultimate inclination.
10. n. Nautical, the thickening of an anchor-shank as it approaches the arms.
11. n. A current or stream.
12. To cleanse, as wool. Also trent.
13. n. Clean or cleansed wool.

Wiktionary

1. n. An inclination in a particular direction
2. n. A tendency
3. n. A fad or fashion style
4. n. mathematics A line drawn on a graph that approximates the trend of a number of disparate points
5. n. UK, dialect, dated clean wool
6. v. intransitive To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend
7. v. transitive To cause to turn; to bend.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend.
2. v. rare To cause to turn; to bend.
3. n. Inclination in a particular direction; tendency; general direction.
4. v. Prov. Eng. To cleanse, as wool.
5. n. Prov. Eng. Clean wool.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. the popular taste at a given time
2. v. turn sharply; change direction abruptly
3. n. a general direction in which something tends to move
4. n. general line of orientation
5. n. a general tendency to change (as of opinion)