Mainstream vs. Trend

Mainstreamadjective

Used or accepted broadly rather than by small portions of a population or market.

Mainstreamnoun

The principal current in a flow, such as a river or flow of air

Mainstreamnoun

That which is common; the norm.

Mainstreamverb

(transitive) To popularize, to normalize, to render mainstream.

Mainstreamverb

(intransitive) To become mainstream.

Mainstreamverb

To educate (a disabled student) together with non-disabled students.

Mainstreamnoun

The prevailing opinion or practise; as, the doctor avoided using therapies outside the mainstream of modern medical practice.

Mainstreamverb

TO place (a student) in regular school classes; - used especially of mentally or physically handicapped children.

Mainstreamnoun

the prevailing current of thought;

Mainstream

The mainstream is the prevalent current thought that is widespread.It includes all popular culture and media culture, typically disseminated by mass media. This word is sometimes used in a pejorative sense by subcultures who view ostensibly mainstream culture as not only exclusive but artistically and aesthetically inferior.It is to be distinguished from subcultures and countercultures, and at the opposite extreme are cult followings and fringe theories.

Trendnoun

An inclination in a particular direction.

Trendnoun

A tendency.

Trendnoun

A fad or fashion style.

Trendnoun

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

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.

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.

Trendnoun

Clean wool.

Trendverb

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

Trendverb

(transitive) To cause to turn; to bend.

Trendverb

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

Trendverb

To cleanse or clean (something, usually wool).

Trendverb

To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend; as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest.

Trendverb

To cause to turn; to bend.

Trendverb

To cleanse, as wool.

Trendnoun

Inclination in a particular direction; tendency; general direction; as, the trend of a coast.

Trendnoun

Clean wool.

Trendnoun

a general direction in which something tends to move;

Trendnoun

general line of orientation;

Trendnoun

a general tendency to change (as of opinion);

Trendnoun

the popular taste at a given time;

Trendverb

turn sharply; change direction abruptly;