Read the dictionary definition of trend. All definitions for this word.
1. the popular taste at a given time
1. leather is the latest vogue
2. he followed current trends
3. the 1920s had a style of their own
2. a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
1. not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book
2. a broad movement of the electorate to the right
3. general line of orientation
1. the river takes a southern course
2. the northeastern trend of the coast
4. a general direction in which something tends to move
1. the shoreward tendency of the current
2. the trend of the stock market
5. turn sharply; change direction abruptly
1. The car cut to the left at the intersection
2. The motorbike veered to the right