trend

Noun

• the popular taste at a given time
  • leather is the latest vogue
    
  • he followed current trends
    
  • the 1920s had a style of their own
    

• a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
  • not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book
    
  • a broad movement of the electorate to the right
    

• general line of orientation
  • the river takes a southern course
    
  • the northeastern trend of the coast
    

• a general direction in which something tends to move
  • the shoreward tendency of the current
    
  • the trend of the stock market
    

Verb

• turn sharply; change direction abruptly
  • The car cut to the left at the intersection
    
  • The motorbike veered to the right
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  vogue , style , drift , movement , course , tendency , swerve , sheer , curve , veer , slue , slew , cut