Trend vs Meme - What's the difference?
trend | meme |
An inclination in a particular direction.
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A fad or fashion style.
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, title= (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.
To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend
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To cause to turn; to bend.
* W. Browne
(Internet, intransitive, informal) To be the subject of a trend; to be currently popular, relevant or interesting.
(UK, dialect, dated) clean wool
Any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another in a comparable way to the transmission of genes.
*1976 , (Richard Dawkins), The Selfish Gene :
*:Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches.
*2002 , Rita Carter, Exploring Consciousness , p. 242:
*:Related memes tend to form mutually supporting meme-complexes such as religions, political ideologies, scientific theories, and New Age dogmas.
(Internet, slang) Something that is copied and circulated online with slight adaptions, including quizzes, basic pictures, video templates etc. A meme can be a photo or artwork, usually with text, often codified with a distinct white block lettering text on the image. If a particular, standardized image is used, there is a protocol to how it should be used
* 2005 , "darklily", OT: Livejournal'' (discussion on Internet newsgroup ''soc.sexuality.general )
*2012 , Greg Jarboe, You Tube and Video Marketing , 2nd edition:
*:The idea was to append Keyboard Cat to the end of a blooper video to "play" that person offstage after a mistake or gaffe, like getting the hook in the days of vaudeville. The meme became popular, Ashton Kutcher tweeted about it to more than 1 million followers, and more than 4,000 such videos have now been made.
*2013 , The Guardian , (headline), 8 Feb 2013:
*:Harlem Shake meme : the new Gangnam Style?
As nouns the difference between trend and meme
is that trend is trend while meme is mother.trend
English
(wikipedia trend)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Akin to (etyl) trinde "ball", (etyl) tryndel "circle, ring". More at (l), (l).Noun
(en noun)Michael Sivak
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,
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).}}
Verb
- The shore of the sea trends to the southwest.
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. }}
- Not far beneath i' the valley as she trends / Her silver stream.
- What topics have been trending on social networks this week?
Derived terms
* betrend * trendyEtymology 2
Compare (etyl) .Noun
(-)meme
English
(wikipedia meme)Noun
(en noun)- I do...but my journal is a mess. It's mostly filled with memes and my bitching about a house I am building.