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Chart vs Trend - What's the difference?

chart | trend |

As nouns the difference between chart and trend

is that chart is a map while trend is trend.

As a verb chart

is to draw a chart or map of.

chart

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A map.
  • # A map illustrating the geography of a specific phenomenon.
  • # A navigator's map.
  • A systematic non-narrative presentation of data.
  • # A tabular presentation of data; a table.
  • #* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
  • , author=, volume=100, issue=2, page=106 , magazine= , title= Pixels or Perish , passage=Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.}}
  • # A diagram.
  • # A graph.
  • #*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-11-30, volume=409, issue=8864, magazine=(The Economist), author=Paul Davis
  • , title= Letters: Say it as simply as possible , passage=Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“ On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?}}
  • # A record of a patient's diagnosis, care instructions, and recent history.
  • # A ranked listing of competitors, as of recorded music.
  • A written deed; a charter.
  • (topology) A subspace of a manifold used as part of an atlas
  • Derived terms

    * ancestral chart * bar chart * chart house * chartbook * charted * charticle * chartjunk * chartless * chartometer * chartroom * control chart * eye chart * flipchart * flow chart * music chart * org chart * organization chart * PERT chart * pie chart * psychrometric chart * record chart * spaghetti chart * star chart * step chart * wallchart * weather chart

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To draw a chart or map of.
  • To draw or figure out (a route or plan).
  • Let's chart how we're going to get from here to there.
    We are on a course for disaster without having charted it.
  • To record systematically.
  • (of a record or artist) To appear on a hit-recording chart.
  • The song has charted for 15 weeks!
    The band first charted in 1994.

    Derived terms

    * chartable * rechart

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    trend

    English

    (wikipedia trend)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) . Akin to (etyl) trinde "ball", (etyl) tryndel "circle, ring". More at (l), (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An inclination in a particular direction.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author= Michael Sivak
  • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Will AC Put a Chill on the Global Energy Supply? , passage=Nevertheless, it is clear that the global energy demand for air-conditioning will grow substantially as nations become more affluent,
  • A tendency.
  • A fad or fashion style.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=June 26, author=Genevieve Koski, work=The Onion AV Club
  • , title= Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe , passage=But musical ancestry aside, the influence to which Bieber is most beholden is the current trends in pop music, which means Believe is loaded up with EDM accouterments, seeking a comfortable middle ground where Bieber’s impressively refined pop-R&B croon can rub up on techno blasts and garish dubstep drops (and occasionally grind on some AutoTune, not necessarily because it needs it, but because a certain amount of robo-voice is expected these days).}}
  • (label) A line drawn on a graph that approximates the trend of a number of disparate points.
  • (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.
  • (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.
  • Verb

  • To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend
  • The shore of the sea trends to the southwest.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=May 31 , author=Tasha Robinson , title=Film: Review: Snow White And The Huntsman citation , page= , passage=Huntsman starts out with a vision of Theron that’s specific, unique, and weighted in character, but it trends throughout toward generic fantasy tropes and black-and-white morality, and climaxes in a thoroughly familiar face-off. }}
  • To cause to turn; to bend.
  • * W. Browne
  • Not far beneath i' the valley as she trends / Her silver stream.
  • (Internet, intransitive, informal) To be the subject of a trend; to be currently popular, relevant or interesting.
  • What topics have been trending on social networks this week?
    Derived terms
    * betrend * trendy

    Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) .

    Noun

    (-)
  • (UK, dialect, dated) clean wool
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cleanse, as wool.
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