trend

A general tendency or course of events: synonym: tendency.

Current style; vogue.

The general direction of something.

To show a general tendency; tend.

To extend, incline, or veer in a specified direction.

Clean or cleansed wool.

To turn; revolve; roll.

To travel round or along a region, tract, etc., at its edge; skirt; coast.

To have a general course or direction; stretch or incline; run: as, the American coast trends southwest from Nova Scotia to Florida.

Figuratively, to have a general tendency or proclivity; incline; lean; turn. See trend, n., 2.