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Trend - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Trend : (noun)
1: a general direction in which something tends to move; "the
shoreward tendency of the current"; "the trend of the
stock market" [syn: tendency]
2: general line of orientation; "the river takes a southern
course"; "the northeastern trend of the coast" [syn: course]
3: 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" [syn: drift, movement]
4: the popular taste at a given time; "leather is the latest
vogue"; "he followed current trends"; "the 1920s had a
style of their own" [syn: vogue, style]
(verb)
1: turn sharply; change direction abruptly; "The car cut to the
left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the
right" [syn: swerve, sheer, curve, veer, slue,
slew, cut]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Fault \Fault\, n.
1. (Elec.) A defective point in an electric circuit due to a
crossing of the parts of the conductor, or to contact with
another conductor or the earth, or to a break in the
circuit.
2. (Geol. & Mining) A dislocation caused by a slipping of
rock masses along a plane of facture; also, the dislocated
structure resulting from such slipping.
Note: The surface along which the dislocated masses have
moved is called the
fault plane. When this plane is vertical, the fault is a
vertical fault; when its inclination is such that the
present relative position of the two masses could have
been produced by the sliding down, along the fault plane,
of the mass on its upper side, the fault is a
normal, or gravity, fault. When the fault plane is so
inclined that the mass on its upper side has moved up
relatively, the fault is then called a
reverse (or reversed), thrust, or overthrust,
fault. If no vertical displacement has resulted, the fault
is then called a
horizontal fault. The linear extent of the dislocation
measured on the fault plane and in the direction of
movement is the
displacement; the vertical displacement is the
throw; the horizontal displacement is the
heave. The direction of the line of intersection of the
fault plane with a horizontal plane is the
trend of the fault. A fault is a
strike fault when itsTrend : coincides approximately with
the strike of associated strata (i.e., the line of
intersection of the plane of the strata with a horizontal
plane); it is a
dip fault when its trend is at right angles to the strike;
an
oblique fault when its trend is oblique to the strike.
Oblique faults and dip faults are sometimes called
cross faults. A series of closely associated parallel
faults are sometimes called
step faults and sometimes
distributive faults.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Trend : \Trend\, v. t. [Cf. G. & OD. trennen to separate.]
To cleanse, as wool. [Prov. Eng.]
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Trend : \Trend\, n.
Clean wool. [Prov. Eng.]
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Trend : \Trend\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trended; p. pr. & vb. n.
Trending.] [OE. trenden to roll or turn about; akin to
OFries. trind, trund, round, Dan. & Sw. trind, AS. trendel a
circle, ring, and E. trendle, trundle.]
To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend;
as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Trend : \Trend\, v. t.
To cause to turn; to bend. [R.]
Not far beneath i' the valley as she trends Her silver
stream. --W. Browne.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Trend : \Trend\, n.
Inclination in a particular direction; tendency; general
direction; as, the trend of a coast.
Trend of an anchor. (Naut.)
(a) The lower end of the shank of an anchor, being the same
distance on the shank from the throat that the arm
measures from the throat to the bill. --R. H. Dana, Jr.
(b) The angle made by the line of a vessel's keel and the
direction of the anchor cable, when she is swinging at
anchor.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Example Usage of Trend |
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