Trend vs. Mode

Trend vs. Mode — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Trend and Mode

Trendnoun

An inclination in a particular direction.

the trend of a coastlinethe upward trend of stock-market prices

Modenoun

(music) One of several ancient Greek scales.

Trendnoun

A tendency.

There is a trend, these days, for people in films not to smoke.

Modenoun

(music) One of several common scales in modern Western music, one of which corresponds to the modern major scale and one to the natural minor scale.

Trendnoun

A fad or fashion style.

Miniskirts were one of the biggest trends of the 1960s.

Modenoun

A particular means of accomplishing something.

What was the mode of entry?
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Trendnoun

(mathematics) A line drawn on a graph that approximates the trend of a number of disparate points.

Modenoun

(statistics) The most frequently occurring value in a distribution

Trendnoun

(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.

Modenoun

A state of a system that is represented by an eigenfunction of that system.

Trendnoun

(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.

Modenoun

(computing) One of various related sets of rules for processing data.

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Trendnoun

Clean wool.

Modenoun

(grammar) A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality.

Trendverb

(intransitive) To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend

The shore of the sea trends to the southwest.

Modenoun

Style or fashion; trend (as in trendy).

Trendverb

(transitive) To cause to turn; to bend.

Modenoun

how something is done or how it happens;

her dignified mannerhis rapid manner of talkingtheir nomadic mode of existencein the characteristic New York stylea lonely way of lifein an abrasive fashion

Trendverb

To be the subject of a trend; to be currently popular, relevant or interesting.

What topics have been trending on social networks this week?

Modenoun

a particular functioning condition or arrangement;

switched from keyboard to voice mode

Trendverb

To cleanse or clean (something, usually wool).

Modenoun

a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility

Trendnoun

a general direction in which something tends to move;

the shoreward tendency of the currentthe trend of the stock market

Modenoun

verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker

Trendnoun

general line of orientation;

the river takes a southern coursethe northeastern trend of the coast

Modenoun

any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave

Trendnoun

a general tendency to change (as of opinion);

not openly liberal but that is the trend of the booka broad movement of the electorate to the right

Modenoun

the most frequent value of a random variable

Trendnoun

the popular taste at a given time;

leather is the latest voguehe followed current trendsthe 1920s had a style of their own

Trendverb

turn sharply; change direction abruptly;

The car cut to the left at the intersectionThe motorbike veered to the right