Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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trend

/tɹɛnd/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms trends trending trended

  1. noun An inclination in a particular direction. “Her trend is to dump boyfriends when it gets serious.”
  2. noun A tendency. “There is a trend, these days, for people in films not to smoke.”
  3. noun A fad or fashion style. “Miniskirts were one of the biggest trends of the 1960s.”
  4. noun An innovation, or a development of innovations. “New trends in AI research are resulting in new opportunities.”
  5. noun A general development over distance. “The trend of the boundary goes around the mountains.”
  6. noun (graph theory) A line drawn on a graph that approximates the trend of a number of disparate points; the shift over time represented by such a curve on a graph.
  7. noun (nautical) 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.
  8. noun (nautical) The angle made by the line of a vessel's keel and the direction of the anchor cable, when she is swinging at anchor.
  9. verb (intransitive) To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend. “The shore of the sea trends to the southwest.”
  10. verb (transitive) To cause to turn; to bend.
  11. verb (social media, intransitive, informal) To be the subject of a trend; to be currently popular, relevant or interesting. “What topics have been trending on social networks this week?”
  12. noun (UK, dialect, dated) Clean wool.
  13. verb To cleanse or clean (something, usually wool).
  14. proper noun A surname.
  15. proper noun A town in Vesthimmerland Municipality, North Jutland, Denmark.

Synonyms

street takeover tendency course drift movement vogue style swerve sheer curve veer slue slew cut

Etymology

From Middle English trenden (“to roll about, turn, revolve”), from Old English trendan (“to roll about, turn, revolve”), from Proto-West Germanic *trandijan (“to turn, roll, revolve”), apparently derived from a strong verb Proto-West Germanic *trindan. Cognate with Dutch trent (“circumference”). Akin to Old English trinde (“ball”), Old English tryndel (“circle, ring”). More at trindle, trundle.

Compare German trennen (“to separate”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend; as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest.
  2. verb To cause to turn; to bend. [R.]
  3. noun 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.
  4. verb To cleanse, as wool. [Prov. Eng.]

Etymology [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.]

Etymology [Cf. G. & OD. trennen to separate.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “trend”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details