Trend

Noun

 * 1) An inclination in a particular direction
 * 2) A tendency
 * 3) A fad or fashion style
 * 4)  A line drawn on a graph that approximates the trend of a number of disparate points

Verb

 * 1)  To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend
 * 2)  To cause to turn; to bend.

Thesaurus
flowing, fluency, flush, flux, forward motion, furore, glacial movement, go, gush, haute couture, have a tendency, head, heading, heel, helmsmanship, high fashion, hold a heading, inclination, incline, inflow, issue, lay, lead, lean, leaning, lie, line, line of direction, line of march, look, look to, main current, mainstream, make, mill run, millrace, mode, motion, mounting, movement, navigation, oblique motion, ongoing, onrush, onward course, orientation, outflow, passage, piloting, plunging, point, point to, pour, prevailing taste, progress, progression, proper thing, quarter, race, radial motion, rage, random motion, range, redound to, reflowing, refluence, reflux, regression, regurgitate, retrogression, rising, run, rush, serve, set, set toward, sheer, shift, show a tendency, sideward motion, sinking, soaring, spate, steer, steerage, steering, sternway, stream, stream of fashion, style, subsiding, surge, surge back, swerve, swim, swing, tack, tend, tend to go, tendency, tenor, the general tendency, the main course, thing, tide, time spirit, tone, track, traject, trajet, turn, turn aside, undercurrent, undertow, upward motion, vary, veer, verge, vogue, warp, water flow, way, wind, work toward, advance, affluence, afflux, affluxion, aim, angular motion, ascending, ascent, axial motion, azimuth, backflowing, backing, backward motion, bear, bear off, bearing, bend, bend to, bent, bias, bon ton, branch off, career, change the bearing, climbing, concourse, conduce, confluence, conflux, contribute, convention, course, craze, crosscurrent, cry, current, curve, custom, defluxion, depart from, descending, descent, detour, deviate, digress, direction, direction line, dispose, divagate, divaricate, diverge, downflow, downpour, downward motion, drift, driftage, ebb, ebbing, fad, fashion, flight, flood, flow, flow back, flow in, flow out,

Derived terms

 * trendy