trendn.

Brit.

/trɛnd/, U.S.

/trɛnd/

Etymology: < trend v.

1. A rounded bend or circuit of a stream. dialect.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > system > [noun] > bend

bight1481

double1594

trenda1640

wimple1818

a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) §253 261 In the trend of Touridge,..stands Meeth.

a1874 O. Madox-Brown Dwale Bluth (1876) I. i. iv. 87 We'd dew best ter palch along ter th' trend i th' holler hinder.

2. Wool (partly cleaned) wound in tops for spinning: cf. trend v. 2b. dialect.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > treated or processed textiles > [noun] > wool > wound in preparation for spinning

trendle1805

trend1858

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Trend, clean wool.

3. Nautical.

a. That part of the shank of an anchor where it thickens towards the crown.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > anchoring equipment > [noun] > anchor > shank of anchor > thick part near crown

trend1794

1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 79 Several parts of the anchor are governed by the size of the trend, which is marked on the shank at the same distance from the inside of the throat as the arm measures..to the extremity of the bill.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Trend of an Anchor, the lower end of the shank, where it thickens towards the arms, usually at one-third from the crown.

b. The angle between the direction of the anchor-cable and that of the ship's keel.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > anchoring equipment > [noun] > distance or angle between vessel and anchor

hawse1630

trend1879

1879 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Suppl.

a. The way something trends or bends away; the general direction which a stream or current, a coast, mountain-range, valley, stratum, etc. tends to take.

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the world > space > direction > [noun] > direction in which a thing extends

journey?a1560

run1671

lie1697

line of bearing1717

trend1777

lay1819

orientation1875

1777–8 R. Wight Horæ Subsecivæ (MS Bodl. Eng. lang. d.66) 438 [Devon] A Trend—Fluentum, vel cursus fluvii, ut quidam autumant—Potius flexus vel ambitus cursus— Not the Current or Stream as some imagine, bur rather the Turning & Winding of the Channel.

1803 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 1 438 Tracing the course of streams, or the trend of coasts.

1854 R. I. Murchison Siluria xii. 305 The trend and character of the marine currents.

1872 C. King Mountaineering in Sierra Nevada i. 2 Numerous ridges..having a general north-east trend.

1876 A. H. Green Geol. for Students: Physical Geol. (1877) 316 As we recede..along the trend of a belt of shale.

b. figurative. The general course, tendency, or drift (of action, thought, etc.). Now frequently with qualifying word and without const.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > tendency > [noun] > course or direction

current1607

generalitiesa1628

bent1649

duct1650

turn1690

run1699

movement1789

swim1869

trend1884

1884 Christian Commonw. 12 June 823/2 The trend of the thought and action of the churches is..towards the consecration of every department of life.

1902 G. W. E. Russell Londoner's Log-bk. xiv. 243 Beyond doubt, Bounderley's local popularity is waning. The ‘trend’ is pointing in another direction.

1912 Lady Burghclere Life James, 1st Duke of Ormonde I. xii. 377 The general trend of affairs in Munster.

1928 Granta 3 Feb. 240 Show me a play that's Russian with a psycho~symbolical trend.

1930 M. A. Magee (title) Materials for the study of business trends in location of the women's clothing industry.

1967 R. Singha & R. Massey Indian Dances i. 38 This can be regarded as a healthy trend since it has aroused a consciousness of the dance.

c. spec. in Education. (See quots.)

ΘΚΠ

society > education > [noun] > systematic education > trend

trend1960

1960 Where? iii. 18/1 ‘Trend’, the, jargon for the increasing tendency of pupils to stay at school beyond the compulsory school-leaving age.

1962 A. Sampson Anat. Brit. xii. 185 Since the war more children are staying on voluntarily than had been expected..(the phenomenon known to schoolteachers as ‘Trend’).

1969 H. Perkin Key Profession v. 208 The ‘trend’, that is, the growing demand on the part of the young and their parents for higher education expressed in the tendency to stay on at school beyond the statutory leaving age.

5. Geology. A geological formation which is a source of oil or gas. Cf. sense 4a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > formations by contents > [noun] > containing minerals

field1672

oil pool1863

oil sand1875

trap1920

source rock1931

trend1939

the world > the earth > minerals > mineral sources > [noun] > source rock > containing oil or gas

reservoir1847

oil pool1863

reservoir rock1877

pool1902

trap1920

trend1939

1939 Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists 23 860 The Jackson trend continued to lead in the number of discoveries with 16 new [oil] fields.

1977 Time 5 Dec. 59/1 In Louisiana, the ‘trend’ (main potential gas~producing formation) lies four miles beneath the green bayous and sugar-cane fields.

Compounds

Special combinations:

trend analysis n. analysis of (esp. statistical) data in order to detect or study any trend represented in them.

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the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [noun] > statistics > study of > to discover trends

trend analysis1934

1934 M. Sasuly Trend Anal. of Statistics i. 6 The primary purpose of this book is to derive formulas and computation schedules that will simplify..practical trend analysis.

1964 J. M. Argyle Psychol. & Social Probl. xv. 183 For purposes of trend analysis it is not particularly interesting to know how particular people have changed, since this confuses developmental with historical trends—we want to compare groups of people today with equivalent groups at a previous date.

1971 Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. 84 107 Trend analysis showed that performance under steady illumination did not vary over wavelength.

trend line n. a line indicating the general course or tendency of something (as a geographical feature or a set of points on a graph).

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the world > relative properties > number > graph or diagram > [noun] > graph

curve1818

profile1860

plot1880

graph1886

curve plotting1891

trend line1912

subgraph1931

network1941

digraph1955

multigraph1966

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > [noun] > formation > direction

trend line1912

1912 Q. Rev. Apr. 532 The trend-lines of mountain systems are the results..of something more than a lateral pressure.

1930 M. Ezekiel Methods Correlation Anal. xvi. 239 The residuals from the final trend line might be again plotted against the other curves, to see if any further changes were necessary.

1959 Listener 2 Apr. 581/2 The almost level trend-line of coal production.

1965 G. J. Williams Econ. Geol. N.Z. iii. 30/2 The lateral displacements are as much as 95 ft from the trend-line of the lode.

1976 National Observer (U.S.) 6 Nov. If you slow growth, it means that the trend line for the production of automobiles, refrigerators, houses, and so forth will begin to taper down.

trend-spotter n. one who observes (or seeks to predict) the changing tide of fashion, in dress, ideas, etc.

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the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > one who observes fashion

trend-spotter1965

1965 Punch 21 Apr. 570/2 As trend~spotters will have spotted, the sweet-and-twenty blonde, who was last year selling us Scotch, shirts and motor-cars from the hoardings is increasingly yielding place to little winsome children.

1980 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Nov. 1316/4 I don't deny that ideology can be adopted as a fashionable mode, but ideas, real ideas, do not make their appearance and disappearance merely to satisfy the shaping whims of trend-spotters; and to pretend that they do is to become a trend-spotter yourself.

trend surface n. a mathematically defined surface computed as a best fit to the sampled values of some parameter over an area of interest; so trend surface analysis.

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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > surface > [noun]

superficec1400

superficies1530

surface1604

superficie1702

wave-surface1833

developable1847

quartic1854

scroll1862

conicoid1863

regulus1874

Riemann surface1876

tetrahedroid1889

construct1902

skew1902

trend surface1956

1956 R. L. Miller in Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 64 425 The problem of defining and analyzing contemporary environments of sedimentation is approached from the point of view of mapping ‘trend surfaces’.

1959 Jrnl. Geophysical Res. 64 823 Trend surface analysis is a procedure for separating the relatively large-scale systematic changes in mapped data from essentially non-systematic small-scale variations due to local effects.

1978 B. Chapman Clarke's Analyt. Archaeol. (ed. 2) x. 455 (caption) The location of the cultural assemblages in the Central Plains which have been analysed by trend-surface analysis.

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A topic or subject that generates a large amount of social media activity over a short time period; an instance of this. Cf. trend v. Additions.

ΚΠ

2006 @codepo8 23 Nov. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Trends can also be marketing hypes. Don't forget that a lot of the ‘web2.0’ companies primarily also think of being bought sooner or later.

2011 Metro (U.K.) (Nexis) 17 Feb. 11 The latest web hoax..‘RIP Mick Jagger’ became the worldwide hot topic on Twitter and Google Trends.

2015 Evesham Jrnl. (Nexis) 3 Mar. The dress took the internet by storm overnight last Thursday and was the top trend on Twitter worldwide, as a debate broke out as to its true colours.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

trendv.

Forms: Also 1600s treand, trent, 1700s–1800s dialect trind. Past tense and participle trended; also Middle English past tense trent, trend(e, past participle trent, i-, y-trent, 1500s past participle trend.

Etymology: Middle English trenden , Old English trendan (rare) < Old Germanic *trand-jan, < ablaut series *trend : *trand : *trund , which appears also in Old English trinde round lump, ball, Old Frisian trind , trund , North Frisian trind , Middle Low German trint , trent , trunt adjectives round, Middle Low German trent ring, circumference, boundary, Dutch trent circumference, omtrent around, about; also Danish, Swedish trind round. Ulterior relations obscure: compare Falk and Torp. See also trendle v., trindle v., trundle v.

†1. intransitive. To turn round, revolve, rotate, roll; to turn or roll oneself about; also figurative. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > revolve or rotate [verb (intransitive)] > turn over and over or roll

trenda1000

trendlea1225

rollc1405

overwhelma1425

windle1487

trill1531

volve1568

troll1581

tirl1824

a1000 MS. Cott. Faust. A. x. in Anglia I. 285 Se æppel næfre þæs feorr ne trenddeð, he cyð, hwanon he com.

c1000 in A. S. Napier Old Eng. Glosses 5 Teretes, i. rotundos, sintrendende [v.r. sintredende], sinhwyrfende.]

c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 313 He went and trent [c1475 Caius He wende, he trende] his bed opon, So man þat is wo bigon.

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.

c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn l. 2038 The trowith woll be previd, how so men evir trend.

1654 R. Vilvain tr. Enchiridium Epigr. i. 32 The whol frame doth round in her orb trend.

†2.

a. transitive. To cause (a thing) to turn round; to turn or roll (anything); to twist, plait, curl; figurative to revolve in one's mind. Obsolete (except as in 2b).

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > revolve or rotate [verb (transitive)] > turn over and over or roll

trendc1315

trendle1382

welter?a1400

rollc1400

overweltera1450

wamble1561

trindle1595

obvolve1649

pitch-pole1926

c1315 Shoreham vii. 78 A myȝt..Þat halt vp þerþe and sterren bryȝte Aboute itrent.

c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) iii. met. xi. 79 Lat hym rollen and trenden with-Inne hym self the Lyht of his inward syhte.

c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 5881 Wyþ eȝene graye, and browes bent, And ȝealwe traces, & fayre y-trent.

1594 Willobie his Auisa xli. f. 39 The Spindle that you see me driue, Hath fyld the spill so often trend.

1616 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals II. iii. 83 Not farre beneath i'th Valley as she trends Her siluer streame.

b. To wind (wool, partly cleaned) into tops for spinning. dialect. (Cf. trendle n. 5.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing wool > treat or process wool [verb (transitive)] > other

seam1511

burl1650

pluck1695

trend1777

plank1839

carbonize1893

1777-8 [see trended adj. at Derivatives].

1796 Ann. Agric. 26 454 Herefordshire is the only county that I know which continues the practice of trinding (or winding the wool in tops, ready sorted in some degree for fine drapers).

1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Trend, v.t., in rural economy, to free wool from its filth. (Local.)

†3.

a. intransitive. To make a circuit, travel around or about the edge of a region or piece of land; to skirt, coast (about, along). Obsolete.

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1580 J. Dee in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) ii. 459 You shall trend about the very Northerne and most Easterly point of all Asia.

1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 137 The maine Desarts: which all this while we had trented along, and now were to passe through.

1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea lii. 123 Trending about the Cape, wee haled in East North-east, to fetch the Bay of Atacames.

†b. More vaguely: To turn or direct one's course. Obsolete.

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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct one's course [verb (intransitive)]

thinkeOE

bowa1000

seta1000

scritheOE

minlOE

turnc1175

to wend one's wayc1225

ettlec1275

hieldc1275

standc1300

to take (the) gatec1330

bear?c1335

applyc1384

aim?a1400

bend1399

hita1400

straighta1400

bounc1400

intendc1425

purposec1425

appliquec1440

stevenc1440

shape1480

make1488

steera1500

course1555

to make out1558

to make in1575

to make for ——a1593

to make forth1594

plyc1595

trend1618

tour1768

to lie up1779

head1817

loop1898

1618 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1618–21 (1906) 11 Their provisions trend from Mosambique to the Mulluccas.

1647 G. Tooke Belides 30 As a streame descending From his faire heads to sea, becomes in trending More puissant.

1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. I. 87/1 The religion of blood, like the beasts of prey, will continue to trend northward.

†c. transitive. To coast along, skirt; to make the circuit of, to round (a point of land). Obsolete.

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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct (one's course, steps, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > pass along outskirts of

coastc1400

trend1580

banka1616

skirt1735

to scrape along1884

outskirt1898

1580 J. Florio tr. J. Cartier Shorte Narr. Two Nauigations Newe Fraunce 13 We trended the sayde land about nine or ten leagues, hoping to finde some good harborough.

1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall ii. f. 98^v From thence trending Penlee poynt, you discouer Kings Sand and Causam Bay.

a. intransitive. To turn off in a specified direction; to tend to take a direction or course expressed by the context; to run, stretch, incline, bend (in some direction), as a river, current, coastline, mountain range, territory, stratum, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > direction > point or lie in a direction [verb (intransitive)]

goeOE

wendOE

runOE

stretchc1400

strike1456

extend1481

point?1518

address1523

passc1550

tend1574

trend1598

conduce1624

direct1665

verge1726

shape1769

the world > space > extension in space > extend in space [verb (intransitive)] > extend in a certain direction

liec1000

shootc1000

drawc1180

stretcha1387

streek1388

bear1556

trend1598

tend1604

take1610

to make out1743

to put out1755

trench1768

make1787

1598 R. Hakluyt tr. W. de Rubruquis in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 104 The riuer of..Volga.. issueth from the North part of Bulgaria..& so trending along Southward, disimboqueth into a certain lake.

1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 766 The shore treandeth out more, and more.

1635 in M. Christy Voy. L. Foxe & T. James (1894) II. 354 I see the land trent to the Southward.

1779 T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea 194 From the island of Ebus, the coast trends to the northward.

1860 M. F. Maury Physical Geogr. Sea (ed. 8) ii. §116 In its course to the north, the Gulf Stream gradually trends more and more to the eastward.

1876 J. R. Green Stray Stud. Eng. & Italy 290 Their path lay along the coast trending round to the west.

1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters 232 The railroad trended to the right.

b. figurative. To turn in some direction, to have a general tendency (as a discussion, events, etc.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > tendency > tend or incline [verb (intransitive)]

wryc888

driveOE

drawc1175

rine?c1225

soundc1374

tendc1374

lean1398

clinea1400

movec1450

turnc1450

recline?a1475

covet1520

intend?1521

extenda1533

decline?1541

bow1562

bend1567

follow1572

inflecta1575

incline1584

warpa1592

to draw near1597

squint1599

nod1600

propend1605

looka1616

verge1664

gravitate1673

set1778

slant1850

trend1863

tilt1967

1863 G. A. Lawrence Border & Bastille xiii. 243 In which direction do the sympathies and interests of the Border States actually trend?

1886 E. Dowden Life Shelley I. iv. 164 The discussion..trended away from theology in the direction of politics.

1901 B. Meakin Land of Moors xx. 407 The Land of the Moors, which, as things trend to-day, must in time form part of her [France's] colony.

c. transitive in casual sense: To turn or bend the course of in a particular direction. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > direction > direct [verb (transitive)] > cause to have specific direction

bowc1380

benda1522

incline1597

usher1668

trend1840

1840 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 3 109/1 Laying the several courses perpendicular to the face of the arch..and trending them to the abutments in an angle dependent on the given obliquity.

Derivatives

ˈtrended adj. (dial. trinded) (spec. of wool: see 2b).

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > treated or processed textiles > [adjective] > wool

kemptc1050

untrendc1535

rudge-washed1592

scribbled1682

trended1777

untrended1805

ridge-washed1811

1777–8 R. Wight Horæ Subsecivæ (MS Bodl. Eng. lang. d.66) 438 [Gloucestershire] Trinded or Trended Wool,..Wool winded, & fastned together with the Rind of a Tree.

1796 Ann. Agric. 26 455 [I] send you, by Drew, a trinded top of wool..with the locks left out of it at trinding.

1805 J. Luccock Nature & Prop. Wool 300 From the trended fleece of Herefordshire about one tenth of its weight is taken of coarse and inferior locks.

ˈtrending adj.

ΚΠ

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.

ˈtrender n. dialect one employed in winding (cleaned) wool.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing wool > [noun] > winding wool in preparation for spinning > one who

trender1828

1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Trender, one whose business is to free wool from its filth. (Local.)

Draft additions June 2015

intransitive. Of a topic or subject matter: to generate a large amount of social media activity over a short time span; to become popular or prevalent on social media networks.

ΚΠ

2007 @tyme 5 Dec. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Just spent 10 minutes playing with google trends..things I want to trend don't have enough volume [to] give a result.

2010 Carleton Place (Ont.) (Nexis) 12 Mar. 1 Justin Bieber trends really high and some people..then tweet about the fact that he's trending, which only makes him trend higher.

2013 J. Kolodzy Practicing Convergence Journalism x. 153 News aggregators and social media networks, such as Twitter, Google, yahoo and Facebook, all provide users with information about ‘what's trending’, whether it be a certain celebrity, a news item or a discussion.

Draft additions June 2015

trending adj. (of a topic or subject matter) currently popular or prevalent on social media networks.

ΚΠ

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’.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	trend
释义	trendn. Brit. /trɛnd/, U.S. /trɛnd/ Etymology: < trend v. 1. A rounded bend or circuit of a stream. dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > system > [noun] > bend bight1481 double1594 trenda1640 wimple1818 a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) §253 261 In the trend of Touridge,..stands Meeth. a1874 O. Madox-Brown Dwale Bluth (1876) I. i. iv. 87 We'd dew best ter palch along ter th' trend i th' holler hinder. 2. Wool (partly cleaned) wound in tops for spinning: cf. trend v. 2b. dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > treated or processed textiles > [noun] > wool > wound in preparation for spinning trendle1805 trend1858 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Trend, clean wool. 3. Nautical. a. That part of the shank of an anchor where it thickens towards the crown. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > anchoring equipment > [noun] > anchor > shank of anchor > thick part near crown trend1794 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 79 Several parts of the anchor are governed by the size of the trend, which is marked on the shank at the same distance from the inside of the throat as the arm measures..to the extremity of the bill. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Trend of an Anchor, the lower end of the shank, where it thickens towards the arms, usually at one-third from the crown. b. The angle between the direction of the anchor-cable and that of the ship's keel. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > anchoring equipment > [noun] > distance or angle between vessel and anchor hawse1630 trend1879 1879 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Suppl. 4. a. The way something trends or bends away; the general direction which a stream or current, a coast, mountain-range, valley, stratum, etc. tends to take. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > [noun] > direction in which a thing extends journey?a1560 run1671 lie1697 line of bearing1717 trend1777 lay1819 orientation1875 1777–8 R. Wight Horæ Subsecivæ (MS Bodl. Eng. lang. d.66) 438 [Devon] A Trend—Fluentum, vel cursus fluvii, ut quidam autumant—Potius flexus vel ambitus cursus— Not the Current or Stream as some imagine, bur rather the Turning & Winding of the Channel. 1803 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 1 438 Tracing the course of streams, or the trend of coasts. 1854 R. I. Murchison Siluria xii. 305 The trend and character of the marine currents. 1872 C. King Mountaineering in Sierra Nevada i. 2 Numerous ridges..having a general north-east trend. 1876 A. H. Green Geol. for Students: Physical Geol. (1877) 316 As we recede..along the trend of a belt of shale. b. figurative. The general course, tendency, or drift (of action, thought, etc.). Now frequently with qualifying word and without const. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > tendency > [noun] > course or direction current1607 generalitiesa1628 bent1649 duct1650 turn1690 run1699 movement1789 swim1869 trend1884 1884 Christian Commonw. 12 June 823/2 The trend of the thought and action of the churches is..towards the consecration of every department of life. 1902 G. W. E. Russell Londoner's Log-bk. xiv. 243 Beyond doubt, Bounderley's local popularity is waning. The ‘trend’ is pointing in another direction. 1912 Lady Burghclere Life James, 1st Duke of Ormonde I. xii. 377 The general trend of affairs in Munster. 1928 Granta 3 Feb. 240 Show me a play that's Russian with a psycho~symbolical trend. 1930 M. A. Magee (title) Materials for the study of business trends in location of the women's clothing industry. 1967 R. Singha & R. Massey Indian Dances i. 38 This can be regarded as a healthy trend since it has aroused a consciousness of the dance. c. spec. in Education. (See quots.) ΘΚΠ society > education > [noun] > systematic education > trend trend1960 1960 Where? iii. 18/1 ‘Trend’, the, jargon for the increasing tendency of pupils to stay at school beyond the compulsory school-leaving age. 1962 A. Sampson Anat. Brit. xii. 185 Since the war more children are staying on voluntarily than had been expected..(the phenomenon known to schoolteachers as ‘Trend’). 1969 H. Perkin Key Profession v. 208 The ‘trend’, that is, the growing demand on the part of the young and their parents for higher education expressed in the tendency to stay on at school beyond the statutory leaving age. 5. Geology. A geological formation which is a source of oil or gas. Cf. sense 4a. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > formations by contents > [noun] > containing minerals field1672 oil pool1863 oil sand1875 trap1920 source rock1931 trend1939 the world > the earth > minerals > mineral sources > [noun] > source rock > containing oil or gas reservoir1847 oil pool1863 reservoir rock1877 pool1902 trap1920 trend1939 1939 Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists 23 860 The Jackson trend continued to lead in the number of discoveries with 16 new [oil] fields. 1977 Time 5 Dec. 59/1 In Louisiana, the ‘trend’ (main potential gas~producing formation) lies four miles beneath the green bayous and sugar-cane fields. Compounds Special combinations: trend analysis n. analysis of (esp. statistical) data in order to detect or study any trend represented in them. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > probability or statistics > [noun] > statistics > study of > to discover trends trend analysis1934 1934 M. Sasuly Trend Anal. of Statistics i. 6 The primary purpose of this book is to derive formulas and computation schedules that will simplify..practical trend analysis. 1964 J. M. Argyle Psychol. & Social Probl. xv. 183 For purposes of trend analysis it is not particularly interesting to know how particular people have changed, since this confuses developmental with historical trends—we want to compare groups of people today with equivalent groups at a previous date. 1971 Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. 84 107 Trend analysis showed that performance under steady illumination did not vary over wavelength. trend line n. a line indicating the general course or tendency of something (as a geographical feature or a set of points on a graph). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > graph or diagram > [noun] > graph curve1818 profile1860 plot1880 graph1886 curve plotting1891 trend line1912 subgraph1931 network1941 digraph1955 multigraph1966 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > [noun] > formation > direction trend line1912 1912 Q. Rev. Apr. 532 The trend-lines of mountain systems are the results..of something more than a lateral pressure. 1930 M. Ezekiel Methods Correlation Anal. xvi. 239 The residuals from the final trend line might be again plotted against the other curves, to see if any further changes were necessary. 1959 Listener 2 Apr. 581/2 The almost level trend-line of coal production. 1965 G. J. Williams Econ. Geol. N.Z. iii. 30/2 The lateral displacements are as much as 95 ft from the trend-line of the lode. 1976 National Observer (U.S.) 6 Nov. If you slow growth, it means that the trend line for the production of automobiles, refrigerators, houses, and so forth will begin to taper down. trend-spotter n. one who observes (or seeks to predict) the changing tide of fashion, in dress, ideas, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > one who observes fashion trend-spotter1965 1965 Punch 21 Apr. 570/2 As trend~spotters will have spotted, the sweet-and-twenty blonde, who was last year selling us Scotch, shirts and motor-cars from the hoardings is increasingly yielding place to little winsome children. 1980 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Nov. 1316/4 I don't deny that ideology can be adopted as a fashionable mode, but ideas, real ideas, do not make their appearance and disappearance merely to satisfy the shaping whims of trend-spotters; and to pretend that they do is to become a trend-spotter yourself. trend surface n. a mathematically defined surface computed as a best fit to the sampled values of some parameter over an area of interest; so trend surface analysis. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > geometry > surface > [noun] superficec1400 superficies1530 surface1604 superficie1702 wave-surface1833 developable1847 quartic1854 scroll1862 conicoid1863 regulus1874 Riemann surface1876 tetrahedroid1889 construct1902 skew1902 trend surface1956 1956 R. L. Miller in Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 64 425 The problem of defining and analyzing contemporary environments of sedimentation is approached from the point of view of mapping ‘trend surfaces’. 1959 Jrnl. Geophysical Res. 64 823 Trend surface analysis is a procedure for separating the relatively large-scale systematic changes in mapped data from essentially non-systematic small-scale variations due to local effects. 1978 B. Chapman Clarke's Analyt. Archaeol. (ed. 2) x. 455 (caption) The location of the cultural assemblages in the Central Plains which have been analysed by trend-surface analysis. Draft additions June 2015 A topic or subject that generates a large amount of social media activity over a short time period; an instance of this. Cf. trend v. Additions. ΚΠ 2006 @codepo8 23 Nov. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Trends can also be marketing hypes. Don't forget that a lot of the ‘web2.0’ companies primarily also think of being bought sooner or later. 2011 Metro (U.K.) (Nexis) 17 Feb. 11 The latest web hoax..‘RIP Mick Jagger’ became the worldwide hot topic on Twitter and Google Trends. 2015 Evesham Jrnl. (Nexis) 3 Mar. The dress took the internet by storm overnight last Thursday and was the top trend on Twitter worldwide, as a debate broke out as to its true colours. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022). trendv. Forms: Also 1600s treand, trent, 1700s–1800s dialect trind. Past tense and participle trended; also Middle English past tense trent, trend(e, past participle trent, i-, y-trent, 1500s past participle trend. Etymology: Middle English trenden , Old English trendan (rare) < Old Germanic trand-jan, < ablaut series trend : trand : trund , which appears also in Old English trinde round lump, ball, Old Frisian trind , trund , North Frisian trind , Middle Low German trint , trent , trunt adjectives round, Middle Low German trent ring, circumference, boundary, Dutch trent circumference, omtrent around, about; also Danish, Swedish trind round. Ulterior relations obscure: compare Falk and Torp. See also trendle v., trindle v., trundle v. †1. intransitive. To turn round, revolve, rotate, roll; to turn or roll oneself about; also figurative. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > revolve or rotate [verb (intransitive)] > turn over and over or roll trenda1000 trendlea1225 rollc1405 overwhelma1425 windle1487 trill1531 volve1568 troll1581 tirl1824 a1000 MS. Cott. Faust. A. x. in Anglia I. 285 Se æppel næfre þæs feorr ne trenddeð, he cyð, hwanon he com. c1000 in A. S. Napier Old Eng. Glosses 5 Teretes, i. rotundos, sintrendende [v.r. sintredende], sinhwyrfende.] c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 313 He went and trent [c1475 Caius He wende, he trende] his bed opon, So man þat is wo bigon. 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. c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn l. 2038 The trowith woll be previd, how so men evir trend. 1654 R. Vilvain tr. Enchiridium Epigr. i. 32 The whol frame doth round in her orb trend. †2. a. transitive. To cause (a thing) to turn round; to turn or roll (anything); to twist, plait, curl; figurative to revolve in one's mind. Obsolete (except as in 2b). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > revolve or rotate [verb (transitive)] > turn over and over or roll trendc1315 trendle1382 welter?a1400 rollc1400 overweltera1450 wamble1561 trindle1595 obvolve1649 pitch-pole1926 c1315 Shoreham vii. 78 A myȝt..Þat halt vp þerþe and sterren bryȝte Aboute itrent. c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) iii. met. xi. 79 Lat hym rollen and trenden with-Inne hym self the Lyht of his inward syhte. c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 5881 Wyþ eȝene graye, and browes bent, And ȝealwe traces, & fayre y-trent. 1594 Willobie his Auisa xli. f. 39 The Spindle that you see me driue, Hath fyld the spill so often trend. 1616 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals II. iii. 83 Not farre beneath i'th Valley as she trends Her siluer streame. b. To wind (wool, partly cleaned) into tops for spinning. dialect. (Cf. trendle n. 5.) ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing wool > treat or process wool [verb (transitive)] > other seam1511 burl1650 pluck1695 trend1777 plank1839 carbonize1893 1777-8 [see trended adj. at Derivatives]. 1796 Ann. Agric. 26 454 Herefordshire is the only county that I know which continues the practice of trinding (or winding the wool in tops, ready sorted in some degree for fine drapers). 1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Trend, v.t., in rural economy, to free wool from its filth. (Local.) †3. a. intransitive. To make a circuit, travel around or about the edge of a region or piece of land; to skirt, coast (about, along). Obsolete. ΚΠ 1580 J. Dee in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) ii. 459 You shall trend about the very Northerne and most Easterly point of all Asia. 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 137 The maine Desarts: which all this while we had trented along, and now were to passe through. 1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea lii. 123 Trending about the Cape, wee haled in East North-east, to fetch the Bay of Atacames. †b. More vaguely: To turn or direct one's course. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct one's course [verb (intransitive)] thinkeOE bowa1000 seta1000 scritheOE minlOE turnc1175 to wend one's wayc1225 ettlec1275 hieldc1275 standc1300 to take (the) gatec1330 bear?c1335 applyc1384 aim?a1400 bend1399 hita1400 straighta1400 bounc1400 intendc1425 purposec1425 appliquec1440 stevenc1440 shape1480 make1488 steera1500 course1555 to make out1558 to make in1575 to make for ——a1593 to make forth1594 plyc1595 trend1618 tour1768 to lie up1779 head1817 loop1898 1618 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1618–21 (1906) 11 Their provisions trend from Mosambique to the Mulluccas. 1647 G. Tooke Belides 30 As a streame descending From his faire heads to sea, becomes in trending More puissant. 1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. I. 87/1 The religion of blood, like the beasts of prey, will continue to trend northward. †c. transitive. To coast along, skirt; to make the circuit of, to round (a point of land). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct (one's course, steps, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > pass along outskirts of coastc1400 trend1580 banka1616 skirt1735 to scrape along1884 outskirt1898 1580 J. Florio tr. J. Cartier Shorte Narr. Two Nauigations Newe Fraunce 13 We trended the sayde land about nine or ten leagues, hoping to finde some good harborough. 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall ii. f. 98^v From thence trending Penlee poynt, you discouer Kings Sand and Causam Bay. 4. a. intransitive. To turn off in a specified direction; to tend to take a direction or course expressed by the context; to run, stretch, incline, bend (in some direction), as a river, current, coastline, mountain range, territory, stratum, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > point or lie in a direction [verb (intransitive)] goeOE wendOE runOE stretchc1400 strike1456 extend1481 point?1518 address1523 passc1550 tend1574 trend1598 conduce1624 direct1665 verge1726 shape1769 the world > space > extension in space > extend in space [verb (intransitive)] > extend in a certain direction liec1000 shootc1000 drawc1180 stretcha1387 streek1388 bear1556 trend1598 tend1604 take1610 to make out1743 to put out1755 trench1768 make1787 1598 R. Hakluyt tr. W. de Rubruquis in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 104 The riuer of..Volga.. issueth from the North part of Bulgaria..& so trending along Southward, disimboqueth into a certain lake. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 766 The shore treandeth out more, and more. 1635 in M. Christy Voy. L. Foxe & T. James (1894) II. 354 I see the land trent to the Southward. 1779 T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea 194 From the island of Ebus, the coast trends to the northward. 1860 M. F. Maury Physical Geogr. Sea (ed. 8) ii. §116 In its course to the north, the Gulf Stream gradually trends more and more to the eastward. 1876 J. R. Green Stray Stud. Eng. & Italy 290 Their path lay along the coast trending round to the west. 1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters 232 The railroad trended to the right. b. figurative. To turn in some direction, to have a general tendency (as a discussion, events, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > tendency > tend or incline [verb (intransitive)] wryc888 driveOE drawc1175 rine?c1225 soundc1374 tendc1374 lean1398 clinea1400 movec1450 turnc1450 recline?a1475 covet1520 intend?1521 extenda1533 decline?1541 bow1562 bend1567 follow1572 inflecta1575 incline1584 warpa1592 to draw near1597 squint1599 nod1600 propend1605 looka1616 verge1664 gravitate1673 set1778 slant1850 trend1863 tilt1967 1863 G. A. Lawrence Border & Bastille xiii. 243 In which direction do the sympathies and interests of the Border States actually trend? 1886 E. Dowden Life Shelley I. iv. 164 The discussion..trended away from theology in the direction of politics. 1901 B. Meakin Land of Moors xx. 407 The Land of the Moors, which, as things trend to-day, must in time form part of her [France's] colony. c. transitive in casual sense: To turn or bend the course of in a particular direction. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > direct [verb (transitive)] > cause to have specific direction bowc1380 benda1522 incline1597 usher1668 trend1840 1840 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 3 109/1 Laying the several courses perpendicular to the face of the arch..and trending them to the abutments in an angle dependent on the given obliquity. Derivatives ˈtrended adj. (dial. trinded) (spec. of wool: see 2b). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > treated or processed textiles > [adjective] > wool kemptc1050 untrendc1535 rudge-washed1592 scribbled1682 trended1777 untrended1805 ridge-washed1811 1777–8 R. Wight Horæ Subsecivæ (MS Bodl. Eng. lang. d.66) 438 [Gloucestershire] Trinded or Trended Wool,..Wool winded, & fastned together with the Rind of a Tree. 1796 Ann. Agric. 26 455 [I] send you, by Drew, a trinded top of wool..with the locks left out of it at trinding. 1805 J. Luccock Nature & Prop. Wool 300 From the trended fleece of Herefordshire about one tenth of its weight is taken of coarse and inferior locks. ˈtrending adj. ΚΠ 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. ˈtrender n. dialect one employed in winding (cleaned) wool. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing wool > [noun] > winding wool in preparation for spinning > one who trender1828 1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Trender, one whose business is to free wool from its filth. (Local.) Draft additions June 2015 intransitive. Of a topic or subject matter: to generate a large amount of social media activity over a short time span; to become popular or prevalent on social media networks. ΚΠ 2007 @tyme 5 Dec. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Just spent 10 minutes playing with google trends..things I want to trend don't have enough volume [to] give a result. 2010 Carleton Place (Ont.) (Nexis) 12 Mar. 1 Justin Bieber trends really high and some people..then tweet about the fact that he's trending, which only makes him trend higher. 2013 J. Kolodzy Practicing Convergence Journalism x. 153 News aggregators and social media networks, such as Twitter, Google, yahoo and Facebook, all provide users with information about ‘what's trending’, whether it be a certain celebrity, a news item or a discussion. Draft additions June 2015 trending adj. (of a topic or subject matter) currently popular or prevalent on social media networks. ΚΠ 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’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.a1640v.a1000
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