trend
- trend
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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
n. direction, course,
tendency, inclination, drift, tide.
II
(Roget's IV)
n.
1. [Tendency]
2. [Direction]
Syn. course, aim, bearing; see
drift 1 .
See Synonym Study at tendency .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus)
I
n.
direction, course, drift, tendency, prevalence, inclination, track, flow, fashion, style, *in thing, rage, craze, fad, vogue.
II
v.
run, tend, course, flow, incline, go, lean, drift, gravitate, move.
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II)
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noun
1. An inclination to something: bent, bias, cast, disposition, leaning, partiality, penchant, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, proneness, propensity, squint, tendency, turn. See APPROACH, LIKE.
2. The current custom: craze, fad, fashion, furor, mode, rage, style, vogue. Informal: thing. Idioms: the in thing, the last word, the latest thing. See STYLE, USUAL.
II
verb
To have a tendency or inclination: incline, lean1, slant, squint, tend1. See LIKELY.
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