Synonyms of the word

trend

• n. An inclination in a particular direction.
• n. A tendency.
• n. A fad or fashion style.
• n. (mathematics) A line drawn on a graph that approximates the trend of a number of disparate points.
• n. (nautical) The lower end of the shank of an anchor, being the same distance on the shank from the throat…
• n. (nautical) The angle made by the line of a vessel's keel and the direction of the anchor cable, when she…
• v. (intransitive) To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend.
• v. (transitive) To cause to turn; to bend.
• v. (Internet, intransitive, informal) To be the subject of a trend; to be currently popular, relevant or…
• n. (Britain, dialect, dated) clean wool.
• v. To cleanse, as wool.

appreciation

• n. A fair valuation or estimate of merit, worth, weight, etc.; recognition of excellence.
• n. Accurate perception; true estimation.
• n. A rise in value.

course

• n. A sequence of events.
• n. A path that something or someone moves along.
• n. (nautical) The lowest square sail in a fully rigged mast, often named according to the mast.
• n. (in the plural, courses, obsolete, euphemistic) Menses.
• n. A row or file of objects.
• n. (music) A string on a lute.
• n. (music) A pair of strings played together in some musical instruments, like the vihuela.
• v. To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood).
• v. To run through or over.
• v. To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after.
• v. To cause to chase after or pursue game.
• adv. (colloquial) Alternative form of of course.

curve

• adj. (obsolete) Bent without angles; crooked; curved.
• n. A gentle bend, such as in a road.
• n. A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
• n. A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution…
• n. (analytic geometry) A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
• n. (geometry) A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional…
• n. (algebraic geometry) An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
• n. (topology) A one-dimensional continuum.
• n. (informal, usually in the plural) The attractive shape of a woman's body.
• v. (transitive) To bend; to crook.
• v. (transitive) To cause to swerve from a straight course.
• v. (intransitive) To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
• v. To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
• v. (slang) To reject, to turn down romantic advances.

cut

• adj. (participial adjective) Having been cut.
• adj. Reduced.
• adj. Omitted from a literary or musical work.
• adj. (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
• adj. (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
• adj. (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among…
• adj. (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
• adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Emotionally hurt.
• adj. Eliminated from consideration during a recruitment drive.
• adj. Removed from a team roster.
• adj. (New Zealand) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
• n. An opening resulting from cutting.
• n. The act of cutting.
• n. The result of cutting.
• n. A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
• n. (specifically) An artificial navigation as distingished from a navigable river.
• n. A share or portion.
• n. (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
• n. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the…
• n. (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also,…
• n. (golf) In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained…
• n. (theater) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play.
• n. (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
• n. The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
• n. The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
• n. A slab, especially of meat.
• n. (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
• n. A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
• n. A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio…
• n. (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits…
• n. A haircut.
• n. (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
• n. A string of railway cars coupled together.
• n. An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
• n. (obsolete) A common workhorse; a gelding.
• n. (slang, dated) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
• n. A skein of yarn.
• v. (heading, transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
• v. (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
• v. (transitive, heading, social) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
• v. (intransitive, film, audio, usually as imperative) To cease recording activities.
• v. (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
• v. (transitive, computing) To remove and place in memory for later use.
• v. (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
• v. (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball…
• v. (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
• v. (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
• v. (transitive, slang) To write.
• v. (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
• v. (transitive) To exhibit (a quality).
• v. (transitive) To stop or disengage.
• v. (sports) To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball,…

direction

• n. A theoretical line (physically or mentally) followed from a point of origin or towards a destination.
• n. An general trend for future action.
• n. Guidance, instruction.
• n. The work of the director in cinema or theater; the skill of directing a film, play etc.
• n. (archaic) An address.

discernment

• n. The ability to distinguish; judgement.
• n. Discrimination.
• n. The ability to distinguish between things.
• n. The ability to perceive differences that exist.
• n. The condition of understanding.
• n. Aesthetic discrimination; taste, appreciation.
• n. Perceptiveness.
• n. The ability to make wise judgements; sagacity.
• n. Discretion in judging objectively.

disposition

• n. The arrangement or placement of certain things.
• n. Tendency or inclination under given circumstances.
• n. Temperamental makeup or habitual mood.
• n. Control over something.
• n. (law) Transfer or relinquishment to the care or possession of another.
• n. (law) Final decision or settlement.
• n. (medicine) The destination of a patient after medical treatment such as surgery.
• n. (music) The set of choirs of strings on a harpsichord.
• v. To remove or place in a different position.

drift

• n. (physical) Movement; that which moves or is moved.
• n. The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
• n. A place (a ford) along a river where the water is shallow enough to permit crossing to the opposite side.
• n. The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention;…
• n. (architecture) The horizontal thrust or pressure of an arch or vault upon the abutments.
• n. (handiwork) A tool.
• n. A deviation from the line of fire, peculiar to oblong projectiles.
• n. (mining) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an…
• n. (nautical) Movement.
• n. (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball through the air, when bowled by a spin bowler.
• v. (intransitive) To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc.
• v. (intransitive) To move haphazardly without any destination.
• v. (intransitive) To deviate gently from the intended direction of travel.
• v. (transitive) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body.
• v. (transitive) To drive into heaps.
• v. (intransitive) To accumulate in heaps by the force of wind; to be driven into heaps.
• v. (mining, US) To make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining the presence…
• v. (transitive, engineering) To enlarge or shape, as a hole, with a drift.
• v. To oversteer a vehicle, causing loss of traction, while maintaining control from entry to exit of a corner…

inclination

• n. A physical tilt or bend.
• n. A slant or slope.
• n. A mental tendency.
• n. (geometry) The angle of intersection of a reference plane.
• n. (obsolete) A person or thing loved or admired.

movement

• n. Physical motion between points in space.
• n. (engineering) A system or mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming…
• n. The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc.
• n. A trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together…
• n. (music) A large division of a larger composition.
• n. (aviation) An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing.
• n. (baseball) The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.
• n. An act of emptying the bowels.
• n. (obsolete) Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.

perceptiveness

• n. The state of being perceptive; acumen, discernment, insight.

sheer

• adj. (textiles) Very thin or transparent.
• adj. (obsolete) Pure in composition; unmixed; unadulterated.
• adj. (by extension) Downright; complete; pure.
• adj. Used to emphasize the amount or degree of something.
• adj. Very steep; almost vertical or perpendicular.
• adv. (archaic) Clean; quite; at once.
• n. (nautical) The curve of the main deck or gunwale from bow to stern.
• n. (nautical) An abrupt swerve from the course of a ship.
• v. (chiefly nautical) To swerve from a course.
• v. (obsolete) To shear.

slew

• n. (US) A large amount.
• n. The act, or process of slaying.
• n. A device used for slaying.
• n. A change of position.
• v. (transitive, nautical) To rotate or turn something about its axis.
• v. (transitive) To veer a vehicle.
• v. (transitive) To insert extra ticks or skip some ticks of a clock to slowly correct its time.
• v. (intransitive) To pivot.
• v. (intransitive) To skid.
• v. (transitive, rail transport) to move something (usually a railway line) sideways.
• v. (transitive, Britain, slang) To make a public mockery of someone through insult or wit.
• v. simple past tense of slay.
• n. A wet place; a river inlet.

slue

• v. (transitive, nautical) To rotate something on an axis.
• v. (transitive) To turn something sharply.
• v. (intransitive) To rotate on an axis; to pivot.
• v. (intransitive) To slide off course; to skid.
• n. The act of sluing or the place to which something has slued.
• n. A slough; a run or wet place.

style

• n. A manner of doing or presenting things, especially a fashionable one.
• n. Flair; grace; fashionable skill.
• n. (botany) The stalk that connects the stigma(s) to the ovary in a pistil of a flower.
• n. A traditional or legal term preceding a reference to a person who holds a title or post.
• n. A traditional or legal term used to address a person who holds a title or post.
• n. (nonstandard) A stylus.
• n. (obsolete) A pen; an author's pen.
• n. A sharp-pointed tool used in engraving; a graver.
• n. A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument.
• n. A long, slender, bristle-like process.
• n. The pin, or gnomon, of a sundial, the shadow of which indicates the hour.
• n. (computing) A visual or other modification to text or other elements of a document, such as bold or italic.
• v. (transitive) To create or give a style, fashion or image to.
• v. (transitive) To call or give a name or title to.

swerve

• v. (archaic) To stray; to wander; to rove.
• v. To go out of a straight line; to deflect.
• v. To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law,…
• v. To bend; to incline.
• v. To climb or move upward by winding or turning.
• v. To turn aside or deviate to avoid impact.
• v. of a projectile, to travel in a curved line.
• n. A sudden movement out of a straight line, for example to avoid a collision.

taste

• n. One of the sensations produced by the tongue in response to certain chemicals (Wikipedia).
• n. (countable and uncountable) A person's implicit set of preferences, especially esthetic, though also culinary,…
• n. Personal preference; liking; predilection.
• n. (uncountable, figuratively) A small amount of experience with something that gives a sense of its quality…
• n. A kind of narrow and thin silk ribbon.
• v. (transitive) To sample the flavor of something orally.
• v. (intransitive) To have a taste; to excite a particular sensation by which flavour is distinguished.
• v. To experience.
• v. To take sparingly.
• v. To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of.
• v. (obsolete) To try by the touch; to handle.

tendency

• n. A likelihood of behaving in a particular way or going in a particular direction; a tending toward.
• n. (politics) An organised unit or faction within a larger political organisation.

turn

• v. (heading) Non-linear physical movement.
• v. (heading, intransitive) To change condition or attitude.
• v. (obsolete, reflexive) To change one's course of action; to take a new approach.
• v. (transitive, usually with over) To complete.
• v. (transitive, soccer) Of a player, to go past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• v. To undergo the process of turning on a lathe.
• v. (obstetrics) To bring down the feet of a child in the womb, in order to facilitate delivery.
• v. (printing, dated) To invert a type of the same thickness, as a temporary substitute for any sort which…
• v. (archaic) To translate.
• n. A change of direction or orientation.
• n. A movement of an object about its own axis in one direction that continues until the object returns to…
• n. A single loop of a coil.
• n. A chance to use (something) shared in sequence with others.
• n. The time allotted to a person in a rota or schedule.
• n. One's chance to make a move in a game having two or more players.
• n. A figure in music, often denoted ~, consisting of the note above the one indicated, the note itself, the…
• n. (also turnaround) The time required to complete a project.
• n. A fit or a period of giddiness.
• n. A change in temperament or circumstance.
• n. (cricket) A sideways movement of the ball when it bounces (caused by rotation in flight).
• n. (poker) The fourth communal card in Texas hold 'em.
• n. (poker, obsolete) The flop (the first three community cards) in Texas hold 'em.
• n. A deed done to another.
• n. (rope) A pass behind or through an object.
• n. Character; personality; nature.
• n. (soccer) An instance of going past an opposition player with the ball in one's control.
• n. (circus) A short skit, act, or routine.

veer

• v. (obsolete, nautical) To let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out.
• n. A turn or swerve; an instance of veering.
• v. (intransitive) To change direction or course suddenly; to swerve.
• v. (intransitive, of the wind) To shift in a clockwise direction (if in the Northern Hemisphere, or in a…
• v. (intransitive, nautical, of the wind) To shift aft.
• v. (intransitive, nautical) To change direction into the wind; to wear ship.
• v. (transitive) To turn.

vogue

• n. the prevailing fashion or style.
• n. popularity or a current craze.
• n. A highly stylized modern dance that evolved out of the Harlem ballroom scene in the 1960s.
• v. (intransitive) To dance in the vogue dance style.

way

• n. (heading) To do with a place or places.
• n. A method or manner of doing something; a mannerism.
• n. A state or condition.
• n. (heading) Personal interaction.
• n. (paganism) A tradition within the modern pagan faith of Heathenry, dedication to a specific deity or craft,…
• n. (nautical) Speed, progress, momentum.
• n. A degree, an amount, a sense.
• n. (US, As the head of an interjectory clause) Acknowledges that a task has been done well, chiefly in expressions…
• n. (plural only) The timbers of shipyard stocks that slope into the water and along which a ship or large…
• n. (plural only) The longitudinal guiding surfaces on the bed of a planer, lathe, etc. along which a table…
• interj. (only in reply to no way) It is true.
• v. (obsolete) To travel.
• adv. (informal, with comparative or modified adjective) Much.
• adv. (slang, with positive adjective) Very.
• adv. (informal) Far.
• n. The letter for the w sound in Pitman shorthand.