1. (noun)tendency, trend a generaldirection in which something tends to move "the shoreward tendency of the current"; "the trend of the stock market"
2. (noun)course, trend generalline of orientation "the river takes a southern course"; "the northeastern trend of the coast"
3. (noun)drift, trend, movement a generaltendency 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"
4. (noun)vogue, trend, style the popular taste at a giventime "leather is the latest vogue"; "he followed current trends"; "the 1920s had a style of their own"
5. (verb)swerve, sheer, curve, trend, veer, slue, slew, cut turn sharply; changedirection abruptly "The car cut to the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the right"