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Definition: TRENDING |
TRENDINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Trend |
Date "TRENDING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1851. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Direction | Noun: direction, bearing, course, vector; set, drift, tenor; tendency; incidence; bending, trending; Verb: dip, tack, aim, collimation; steering steerage. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: TRENDING |
| Specialty definitions using "TRENDING": dip valley ♦ lpb. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "TRENDING": Trend. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Locust Bayou between plug site 7 and the existing southeast trending oil access canal. This 6500 linear foot section of Locust Bayou silted up and was dredged out to its natural depth prior to construction of the project's plugs. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Travel | Eq. Guinea | Rates have increased considerably since 1991 and are trending upward, particularly in the two main cities. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "TRENDING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "TRENDING" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 100% | 9 | 117,287 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "TRENDING": south-southeast-trending. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
trending | 32 |
data trending | 6 |
stock trending | 3 |
trending software | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "TRENDING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 趋向 (gravitate, Gravitated, Gravitating, tend, Tended, tending, trend, Trended). (various references) | ||||
German | laufend (constantly, continually, current, currently, ongoing, outstanding, present, proceeding, regular, routine, running, runny). (various references) | ||||
Korean | 기우 (Canting, slanting, Tilting). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | endingtray | ||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "TRENDING": heartrending. (additional references) | |
Words containing "TRENDING": heartrendingly. (additional references) | |
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"TRENDING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Prendine, tendint, terding, traning, treding, tredisgn, tremin, trendi, trendin, Treuddyn, trilding, trining. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "TRENDING" (pronounced tre"nding) |
| 6 | -r e" n d i ng | rending. |
| 5 | -e" n d i ng | amending, apprehending, ascending, attending, bending, blending, commending, comprehending, condescending, contending, defending, depending, descending, ending, expending, extending, fending, impending, intending, lending, mending, misspending, offending, overextending, pending, portending, pretending, recommending, relending, sending, spending, suspending, tending, transcending, unbending, unending, vending, wending. |
| 4 | -n d i ng | abounding, astounding, banding, binding, blinding, bonding, bounding, branding, commanding, compounding, confounding, corresponding, defunding, demanding, disbanding, expanding, expounding, finding, founding, freestanding, funding, grandstanding, grinding, grounding, handing, hounding, landing, longstanding, masterminding, minding, misunderstanding, nonbinding, notwithstanding, outspending, outstanding, overfunding, overspending, pounding, rebounding, refunding, reminding, rescinding, resounding, responding, rounding, sanding, sounding, spellbinding, standing, stranding, surrounding, underfunding, understanding, unwinding, upstanding, winding, withstanding, wounding. |
| 3 | -d i ng | abiding, acceding, according, adding, affording, aiding, alluding, applauding, avoiding, awarding, backsliding, balding, bedding, beheading, beholding, bidding, biding, bleeding, blockading, boarding, bombarding, braiding, breading, breeding, brooding, budding, building, cascading, ceding, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, codding, coding, coinciding, colliding, colluding, conceding, concluding, confiding, cording, crowding, crusading, deciding, decoding, defrauding, degrading, deluding, denuding, deriding, discarding, disregarding, dividing, downgrading, downloading, dreading, eluding, encoding, eroding, evading, exceeding, excluding, exploding, extruding, fading, featherbedding, feeding, feuding, Fielding, flooding, folding, forbidding, foreboding, forwarding, gadding, gilding, girding, Gladding, gliding, goading, Godding, grading, guarding, guiding, handholding, heading, heeding, heralding, herding, hiding, hoarding, holding, impeding, imploding, inbreeding, including, interceding, intruding, invading, joyriding, kidding, kneading, lading, landholding, lauding, leading, loading, madding, marauding, masquerading, Melding, misleading, misreading, molding, moulding, needing, nodding, nonbuilding, outbidding, overbuilding, overcrowding, overloading, overriding, padding, parading, persuading, pervading, pleading, plodding, preceding, precluding, presiding, proceeding, prodding, proofreading, protruding, providing, pudding, punctuating, raiding, railroading, reading, rebuilding, receding, recording, Redding, Reding, regarding, rereading, residing, retarding, retreading, rewarding, ridding, riding, rodding, safeguarding, scaffolding, scalding, scolding, seceding, seeding, serenading, shading, shedding, shepherding, shielding, shipbuilding, shredding, shrouding, siding, skateboarding, skidding, sledding, sliding, spearheading, speeding, spreading, stampeding, striding, subsiding, succeeding, superseding, threading, tiding, trading, treading, unfolding, unloading, unyielding, upgrading, upholding, voiding, wading, warding, wedding, weeding, welding, wielding, Wilding, withholding, Wooding, wording, yielding. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-g-i-n-n-r-t" | |
-1 letter: denting, grinned, rending, renting, ringent, tending. | |
-2 letters: dentin, dinger, dinner, ending, endrin, engird, engirt, ginned, ginner, girned, girted, indent, intend, intern, nidget, reding, rident, ringed, tinder, tinged, tinned, tinner, trined. | |
-3 letters: deign, diner, dinge, dirge, gride, grind, inert, inned, inner, inter, niter, nitre, reign, renig, renin, ridge, teind, tiger, tined, tinge, tired, trend. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-g-i-n-n-r-t" | |
+1 letter: integrand, tendering. | |
+2 letters: bartending, decentring, denaturing, dethroning, detraining, grindstone, ingredient, integrands, outgrinned, portending, pretending, protending, stringendo, thundering, untreading. | |
+3 letters: adventuring, constringed, decentering, denervating, denigrating, denigration, determining, grindstones, indenturing, ingredients, interceding, reindicting, reinducting, tenderizing, tragedienne, underacting, undereating, underrating, undertaking, undertaxing, unthreading. | |
+4 letters: androgenetic, decrementing, degenerating, degeneration, denigrations, denitrifying, deracinating, disinterring, disorienting, freestanding, heartrending, heterodyning, interbedding, interchanged, interdicting, interfolding, intergrading, interlarding, interlending, intermingled, kindergarten, nonirrigated, predestining, thunderingly, tragediennes, transcending, trendsetting, undercoating, undercutting, underletting, understating, undertakings, underwriting, ungentrified, ungerminated, unintegrated, unpretending. | |
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