trend
/trend/
Học thuậtThân thiện
Definition
Noun:
- A general direction in which something is developing or changing: A trend indicates the prevailing course or drift of events, opinions, or styles over time.
- A current style or preference: A trend can refer to a popular fashion, idea, or activity that is widely followed for a period.
- A line of general direction or movement: This can describe the geographical orientation or course of something, like a coastline or a river.
Verb:
- To change or develop in a general direction: To trend means to show a tendency to move, change, or incline in a particular way over time.
- To turn sharply; to veer: This is a less common but valid usage meaning to change direction abruptly.
Usage Examples
Noun:
- There is a growing trend towards remote work. (This shows a general direction of change in work habits.)
- Minimalist design is a major trend in home decor this year. (This refers to a current popular style.)
- The trend of the coastline is from north to south. (This describes the geographical orientation.)
Verb:
- Public opinion is trending in favor of environmental policies. (This shows a development in a general direction.)
- The path trends eastward as it enters the forest. (This indicates the path's general direction.)
- The car's tires lost traction, and it trended off the road. (This uses the less common meaning of veering.)
Advanced Usage
"To set a trend": to start a new fashion or pattern that others follow.
- The tech company set a trend with its innovative smartphone design.
"To buck the trend": to act contrary to a prevailing tendency.
- While most stores are struggling, this small business is bucking the trend and growing.
"A downward/upward trend": a general movement towards lower or higher levels.
- Economists are concerned about the downward trend in manufacturing jobs.
Variants and Related Words
Trendy (adjective): very fashionable or up-to-date.
- That café is in a trendy part of the city.
Trendsetter (noun): a person or thing that establishes a new trend or fashion.
- She is considered a trendsetter in the fashion industry.
Trendline (noun): a line on a graph showing the general course or tendency of a set of data.
- The analyst drew a trendline to predict future sales.
Synonyms
- Tendency: an inclination towards a particular characteristic or type of behavior.
- Direction: the course along which something moves or develops.
- Vogue: the prevailing fashion or style at a particular time.
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Trend toward/towards: to show a tendency to develop in a particular direction.
- Modern architecture trends towards simplicity and open spaces.
Related Idioms
"Go against the trend": to act in opposition to what is popular or common.
- By opening a physical bookstore, they decided to go against the trend of online shopping.
"Catch the trend": to understand and follow a new popular style.
- You need to catch the trend early to succeed in that market.
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