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say it: trend
trend is a noun and verb meaning "a general direction in which something tends to move". It is pronounced /ˈtɹɛnd/ — trend. It carries 5 recorded senses.
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for trend come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.